Business Analyst

Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa

Job Description


Job Summary

The Business Analyst plays a key role in the delivery of successful custom business and software solutions. This individual encourages thought and collaboration from team members to expand ideas regarding successful delivery and to provide the most value to our clients. The Business Analyst must utilise their business expertise and understanding of technical concepts to establish relationships with project sponsors, project managers, team members , to define solution vision and scope and conduct requirements gathering. The role includes assisting with solution and storyboard design, creating functional specifications and defining user acceptance test cases.

The Business Analyst is also responsible for accurately estimating his/her tasks, designing, refining, documenting and implementing all defined methodologies and standards, conducting JAD sessions, suggesting best practices and sharing knowledge with team members. He/she must be able to utilise applicable tools, processes and concepts on multiple, end-to-end projects.

DESCRIPTION OF TASKS

  • Work with business users to define and re-design business processes and identify corresponding solution requirements while establishing appropriate expectations and controlling scope.
  • Actively seek ways to apply technologies to business processes to meet strategic goals through a conceptual understanding of technology and strong business insight and experience.
  • Define user requirements, create user cases, ERD Diagrams and document user requirements specifications by conducting user interviews, JAD sessions and industry research.
  • Define user acceptance test cases and manage the users through the process, ensuring the final solution meets the business expectation and requirements.
  • Document presentations, approach documents, and functional specifications.
  • Work with the creative, business and technology teams to help design solutions and create storyboards.
  • Actively participate in issue resolution and escalation, documenting and logging faults, where applicable.
  • Create documents, presentations, and training material that can be used to establish buy-in and launch the solution successfully.
  • Assist with the creation of a solution's information architecture and navigational structure.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • BCom or equivalent degree preferably in Accounting
  • Minimum of four years in a similar role using MS Dynamics
  • Proven experience leading analysis initiatives and conducting creative requirements gathering.
  • Experience within financial services, system integration, conceptual knowledge of financial controls, general ledger and financial transactions that affect line of business systems
  • Strong process experience and understanding of business analysis methodologies
  • Proven experience authoring approach and vision documents that clearly set client expectations
  • Superior written and verbal communication skills, including technical and report writing
  • Strong business insight and experience, with three or more years in the financial services industry
  • Experience defining test cases as well as defining functional specifications
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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1254365
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    R50000 per month
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned