Job Description

Closing Date
2023/11/29


Reference Number
SHO231122-3


Job Title
Business Analyst III


Job Type
Permanent


Location - Country
South Africa


Location - Province
Western Cape


Location - Town or City
Brackenfell, Cape Town


Purpose of the Job
This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic team in the Furniture Division at Shoprite. You will be part of delivering business and technology solutions across the Furniture Division which comprises the OK Furniture and House and Home brands, and you will be doing it by working across the current legacy landscape with the opportunity to work on the best of breed technologies as the division embarks on a journey to define and execute a modernized future landscape.
Wexe2x80x99re proud to be publicly recognised as the largest private sector employer in South Africa and Africa. We focus on attracting, developing and retaining a loyal and committed workforce, dedicated to the Groupxe2x80x99s culture and organisational objectives.
This role is instrumental role across business and delivery teams to ensure that solutions are delivered according to the business requirements considering cost, user and organisation benefit.
The nature of projects in this role will vary according to the business needs and requirements, ranging from working independently on small BAU enhancements, to large cross functional strategic projects demanding expert business, process and technology perspectives and recommendations across all functional areas within the organisation.
The role requires that you are flexible, adaptable, and resilient, with experience working in small delivery teams, where the business analyst will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of small to medium scale projects, by performing the required business analysis, project management and testing tasks required to ensure on- time, on budget fully functionality delivery.








Job Advert Details


Job Category
Other


Job Objectives
Information Seeking & Analysis
Perform high-level analysis activities at a Senior / Specialist proficiency level.
Understand, analyse and identify areas for improvement in the current business environment and across other shared process/system business environments.
Leadership, Facilitation & Influencing
Taking ownership to provide knowledge within specific area and identify possible improvement within the team. Work closely with Architects, Developers, and Business stakeholders to evaluate suggested solutions where required
Advise on alternatives presented by the technical designers and providing recommendations regarding the business design.
Influencing stakeholders (within IT and Business) to consider solutions which will work best for the business.
Communication, Building & Maintaining Relationships
To build and maintain a trust relationship with business users and IT stakeholders by ensuring solutions are delivered as promised and providing the necessary support and making recommendations.
Collaborating with all disciplines and benchmarking value adding solutions.
Organising, multitasking & time management
Strong commitment to organisational objectives and ensuring high quality delivery on work.
Take responsibility for the timelines within the project plan, of the business analysis effort related to a project.
Work on multiple projects, depending on project size and complexity
Knowledge and Application
Operate at an Expert level in terms of methods used to analyze and benchmark business cases, which will align with the business strategies of the organisation (including feasibility and business benefits).
Drive/ shape automation and digitisation of business processes throughout the group
Drive / shape input into the scope of solution and ensure understanding of scope by business user.



Qualifications

• Degree with 5 to 8 years related experience (Essential)
• Advanced BA certification, CBAP, AAC or similar (Essential)

Experience
Experience working within all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). (Essential)
Business Process Management experience (Essential)
Aris experience (Desirable)
Facilitation qualification/experience (Desirable)
Agile tools and techniques (Desirable)
Experience in one or more of the following; (Desirable)
Retail
Financial Services
SAP
Digital Transformation



Knowledge and Skills
Willingness to be responsible for project delivery on projects depending on size and complexity, including project management and testing of solutions
Excellent communication, both written and verbal
Excellent relationship management and collaboration skills
Good planning and time management skills
Willingness to coach and mentor junior team members
Good business and IT acumen
Self-starter, with a can-do attitude
Customer focused
Analytical thinking
Decision making
Results driven
Strong Business Acumen

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