Business Analyst (Senior) - Sandton at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• To create specifications to meet/improve Operation requirements/processes. Projects involve the design/enhancement of all communications sent by Discovery Invest to clients. The incumbent is responsible for managing the development cycle from inception to implementation.

Competencies Required

• Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements
• Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
• A driving force behind the accurate, complete, and detailed documentation of the business and technical requirements
• Serve as a liaison between Business / Operations and Systems to assist or gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancements, and implementations
• Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during QA/UAT process
• Ability to lead or participate in multiple projects
• Lead in the execution of business strategies and internal projects to ensure the desired result is achieved successfully
• Identify areas of improvement to existing processes to enhance efficiencies
• Solid understanding of technology solutions, delivery methodologies and the potential impacts to existing frameworks and architectures
• Assesses and evaluates enhancement/project requisitions to assist business in ascertaining priority along with projected effort estimations
• Experience in translating architecture requirements into solution design artifacts and to effectively communicate this to all stakeholders to ensure common understanding and shared vision.
• Responsible for drafting high level solution architecture and integration requirements
• Review and validate the documentation completed by junior staff and peers
• Build and Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations by providing continuous feedback and progress of work items
• Reviews and signs-off test plans as provided by the test teams
• Ability to assess and manage risks and issues related to own and/or team’s delivery
• Ability to manage one’s deliverables to ensue alignment between execution roadmaps and dependencies

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Drives Results
• Values Driven
• Optimistic
• Learns on the Fly
• Resilient
• Instils Trust
• People Savvy
• Problem Solver
• Manages Complexity
• Balances Stakeholders
• Optimizes work processes
• Resourcefulness

Qualifications

• Matric
• BA Certification or BA Diploma or Advanced BA
• BSc Computer Sciences / Information Systems or equivalent tertiary qualification
• Ecrion Experience (Advantageous)
• Compass Training (Advantageous)
• BABOK Course (Advantageous)
• CBAP® Certification (Advantageous)

Experience

• A Minimum of solid 3 – 5 years Business Analysis and Integration working experience
• Invest Business/Product Knowledge
• Proficiency in MS Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Visio and Confluence is advantageous
• Client and Broker communication
• Domain Modelling and API experience as advantageous
• Integration experience with 3rd party vendors or multiple inter-dependencies (Advantageous)
• BPMN exposure
• Basic data analysis experience Technical Knowledge and Skills
• Business Analysis Financial Services / Business Knowledge (in terms of Products)
• SQL
• Strong written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills
• Effective communication and leadership skills
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and with a team
• Ability to share ideas and mentor junior team members
• User experience, design, and customer journey maps
• System and component diagrams
• Business service information diagrams
• Conceptual data diagrams