IT Senior Business Analyst - Centurion at Ampath

Purpose of Position:

• The Business Analyst’s role is to elicit, analyse, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
• This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions they need.
• Proactively look for new technologies to optimize business processes and play a pivotal role in ensuring IT’s understanding of business requirements.

Requirements:

• BABOK certification (Advantageous)  (Required),
• Six-Sigma Black Belt certification (Advantageous)  (Required),
• University Degree in Computer Science, Informatics or Business administration. Post Graduate Degree preferred  (Required)

Required Experience:

• 6 – 8 years’ direct work experience., Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language., Clear understanding of product management and market placement., Demonstrated knowledge of the organization’s core business process and operations.,
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources.,
• Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.,
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required.,
• Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.,
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling / mapping, elicitation, modeling, verification, methodology development, and data modeling using BPMN notation.,
• Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.,
• Analyse and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.,
• Analyses and designs business processes to identify alternative solutions to improve efficiency, effectiveness and exploit new technologies and automation.,
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.,
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements and processes – verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.,
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.,
• Contributes to the definition of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for business process improvement.,
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and map to provide direction to developers and / or the project team.,
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.,
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.,
• Establishes requirements baselines and ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.,
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of process analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions.,
• Lead in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed-upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts,
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the requirements lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.,
• Manages the execution of business process improvements.,
• Map existing business processes in order to define current business activities for the development of procedures and models
• Map To-Be processes in line with finalized business requirements.,
• Obtains input from, and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.,
• Participate in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.,
• Participate in the selection of any requirements or process documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.,
• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment (ROI) analyses for proposed changes to aid management in making implementation decisions.,
• Plans and drives requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives.,
• Plans and manages acceptance testing activity.,
• Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, or alternatives for improving processes in operating systems across the organization.,
• Provide feedback on business analysis activities at project progress meetings.