Job Description

Brief description

The purpose of this position is to lead end-to-end business analysis services team to identify business needs, determine solutions and enable improvement in organisational processes within South African Reserve Bank's (SARB) departments.

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:


Develop comprehensive business cases for proposed solutions to the identified business problems and needs. Drive business analysis initiatives and lead a team on projects of a high-risk and multi-year nature characterised by an elevated level of solution complexity, from initiation to implementation. Develop a partnership role with business owners and interact with clients independently to define future business requirements, identify opportunities for optimisation and develop and propose solutions. Lead and present engagements with business customers, taking responsibility for managing the relationship and interface with the customer for the business analysis and optimisation streams. Lead the analysis/solution life cycle for initiatives, from problem identification to the management of change requirements and training. Engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously and consult with the relevant project managers and stakeholders. Provide quality assurance of the work and outputs of other business analysts. Provide substantive input to support other disciplines (e.g. systems development, project management and change management). Participate in external industry business analysis forums to contribute to developing and furthering the business analysis body of knowledge. Improve and standardise work processes during own work and ensure application of standards and methods are applied by the team. Support business architects in defining, analysing and developing the business architecture, reference model, framework and implementation roadmaps required to enable the strategy. Stay abreast of changes to analytical tools and methodologies and apply these in the course of own work. Actively develop own expertise and support and encourage the skills development of other business analysts to build a strong and competent team. Engage and influence stakeholders by negotiating timelines, deliverables, priorities and resources. * Lead and manage a team of business analysts.