Analyst jobs in South Africa

Our prestige client is seeking an IM Business Analyst that would be accountable for guiding the clarification of the business requirements, through in-work collaboration with the business stakeholders, and working within the agile team to ensure these are delivered effectively end-to-end. They will provide a more comprehensive view of the features within an epic, the functionality required to implement it, and the benefits it delivers to business. The IM Business Analyst have a broader end-to-end understanding of the epic / project, can work across multiple agile teams and product owners, and really own the process from start to finish, while getting involved at a technical level of implementations.

Responsibilities

Business Analysis

• Interviews end users to determine requirements for data, reports, analyses, metadata, training, service levels, data quality, and performance
• Analyse business processes and system requirements
• Document detailed business requirement specifications
• Understand existing systems and all interdependencies (AS-IS analysis)
• Works with architects to translate requirements into technical specifications
• Understanding functional and technical system specifications in order to be able to identify business solutions, opportunities and system limitations
• System testing & implementation
• Helps identify and assess potential data sources
• Recommends appropriate scope of requirements
• Validates that data warehouse meets requirements and service level agreements
• Coordinates prototype reviews
• Pro-active operational and technical problem identification and solutions
• Interfacing with the other Business Analysts and acting as liaison between BI and the Business users as well as external Vendors
• Identifying system, process and business problems and inconsistencies, recommending changes
• Document standard operational rules and procedures (i.e. processes)
• Assist/participate in the compilation of test cases.
• Interviews end users to determine requirements for data, reports, analyses, metadata, training, service levels, data quality, and performance
• Guide users in their business requirements definition
• Translate enterprise business needs and opportunities into high level requirements
• Works with the IM team members to translate requirements into technical specifications
• Give input into the design and development of IM solutions in line with business requirements
• Helps identify and assess potential data sources
• Recommends appropriate scope of requirements
• Validates that data warehouse and BI meets requirements and service level agreements
• Establish testing requirements and perform UAT
• Assist in providing support to the IM user community

Development

• Ensure test cases are designed and aligned based on set requirements
• Build and maintain test suites including full regression testing for both manual and automated testing for relevant applications/software support
• Build rudimentary prototypes for business to get a "visualisation" of end deliverables especially for BI solutions (reports, dashboards, etc)

Key Requirements

Diploma or Degree in Information Technology or Informatics Experience

7+ years BA/System Analysis experience
• 4+ years BA experience in data warehousing and or BI projects Experience in all phases of the system development life cycle Experience in project reporting

The Reference Number for this position is LJ59155 which is a Perm - Hybrid (Fourways) position offering a salary up to R1,2 million per annum (Negotiable). Contact Leigh at leighj@e-merge.co.za or call her at 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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