Analyst jobs in South Africa

Contract position

• Bachelors degree or Diploma in Business, Computer Science, or Information Systems
• Must have at least 8-10 years experience as a business analyst involved with assessing, mapping and optimizing business processes.
• Experience with systems design, testing, and troubleshooting is a plus
• Banking experience required
• Experience in applying process modelling standards such as, BPMN.

• Business Process Reengineering
• Workflow / Workflow management / Process automation
• Business Rules Engines (Business Rules Processing)
• Enterprise Content Management
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Presentation technologies
• Business Intelligence, Analytics and Reporting

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution, and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices
• Analyse and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPls and metrics, and align requirements accordingly
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows,
• processes, retrospectives and dependencies across projects.
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, Pl objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesis the data to articulate requirements
• Work with development UQA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive Devops and Built-in quality principles
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies and enterprise delivery up to senior level
• Conduct system demos and contribute to l&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners