Job Description

Job Requisition Details

REQ#139199
Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Closing Date: 16 May 2025
Talent Acquisition: Bongiwe Mchunu

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Business Unit/Department

Systems and Delivery Management

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

FAIS Affected

Job Purpose

Bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions by translating complex requirements into actionable specifications. Leads cross-functional teams through the software development lifecycle, ensuring alignment between stakeholders and developers. Analyses data, systems, and processes to drive strategic decisions and optimize technology-driven business outcomes.

Job Responsibilities

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 Nedbank's 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, KPIs 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, PI 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 synthesise the data to articulate requirements. Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialisation. Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritisation, 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 I&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. Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration. Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues.

Technical Skills Required

Innovation Facilitation Business Analysis AGILE (SAFe recommended) Project Management Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Qualification
NQF Level 7 industry related qualification Agile certification BABOK certification Safe Certification Preferred Certifications
IIBA endorsed Minimum Experience Level
Min 5 years' experience in Business Analysis Financial services background Advantage - Credit Background

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Research methodology BA Body Of Knowledge Business writing skills Agile Concepts Data and Business analysis Process Engineering Skills Global business analysis Trend Business Analysis Descipline , Techniques and Practices Microsoft Office Product Behavioural Competencies
Decision Making Building partnerships Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills Initiating Action Continuous Improvement Customer Orientation
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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566