Business Analyst at AVBOB South Africa

Description

Requirement Gathering and Analysis:

• Review and document the current AVBOB business systems and create an “as-is” model, and draft a future state as solutions are added to AVBOB product offerings.
• Gather, validate, and document business requirements through collaboration with business stakeholders (primarily business project owner) to elicit, document, and analyse business requirements and objectives.
• Work with the project owner and other project stakeholders to identify issues, risks and project benefits (for benefit realisation management) of existing and proposed solutions and outline the impact each solution may have on the other areas within AVBOB.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and subject matter experts to define and document improved business processes.
• Documentation and Communication:
• Decipher, business requirements to translatable technical requirements to improve communication and understanding between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Present (verbally or written) business requirements to various to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Solution design and collaboration
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to design and validate solutions that meet predefined project requirements and objectives.
• Perform user acceptance testing (UAT) from a business perspective, to ensure solutions meet business needs and validate against requirements. Additionally, approve and sign off designed solutions in coordination with the project owner.
• Stakeholder Management:
• Partner with stakeholders across business units to develop analyses of the required solution and document in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams.
• Collaborate with project managers to engage stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, involving them in requirement gathering, review sessions, and user acceptance testing.
• Build and maintain relationships with business stakeholders, understanding their objectives, priorities, and challenges.
• Quality Assurance:
• Assist AVBOB business areas, in system testing, user acceptance testing, and validation of implemented solutions.
• Ensure that delivered solutions meet the specified requirements and are of high quality, as part of the of the AVBOB project delivery process.
• Process Improvement
•  Collaborate with the PMO to research, review and analyses the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering process and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging processes for continual improvement.
• Develop and utilize standard templates to capture requirements and specifications accurately and concisely.
• Project owners and collaboration
• Work with project owner and other team members to identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define the project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics (Acceptance criteria and benefit realization metrics).
• Project Management
• Identify and establish scope parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by project basis to define the project impact, outcome criteria and metrics.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to project managers, project owner and other stakeholder

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications in business analysis, such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
• 2-5 years’ proven experience as a Business Analyst or in a related role
• Proficiency in requirement gathering techniques, process modelling, and documentation.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies and software development lifecycle.