Senior Specialist Business Analyst-Lending at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role purpose:

• The Senior Specialist: Business Analyst role based within Vodacom Financial Services.

The role of the Senior Specialist: Business Analyst is to:

• Play a crucial part in ensuring the success of our Digital Operating Model; helping us to become a leading digital financial services company To ensure that user requirements for the business are technically understood, documented, developed, tested and delivered on in line with user expectations within an agile environment
• This role is responsible for creating and estimating business requirements, user and technical stories

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Portfolio Managers in all research, scoping, analysis and design activities
• Have a dotted reporting line of all BAs within the lending team. Ensuring that there is sufficient BA capacity within the squads and assist with the day-day management of the Business Analysts across the lending department. To perform business analysis and design activities by assessing requirements for the Lending team in Financial services in terms of feasibility, impact and cost, thereby assisting to create and compile accurate user stories, derivation of business rules, customer journeys, MVPs and ensure this is well documented. 
• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog To provide technical input into system definition and design activities and facilitate the delivery of value added solutions.
• To research / investigate current industry trends and standards in terms of technologies deployed / planned to be deployed and how that can enhance / optimise systems.
• To act as a technical liaison between business and the technical teams and to ensure the required support from all areas to ensure delivery of quality solutions.
• To ensure that projects are delivered according to requirements, specified designs and that the technical and business teams are aligned around the same objectives and deliverables.
• To ensure that solutions are delivered through the agile delivery processes and to support the technical scrum teams with the delivery of solutions e.g. facilitation of configuration, testing, rollout coordination To research, define and maintain industry best practices
• To maintain, re-evaluate, optimise or automate existing business processes

• To create reports and feedback to executive and line management To perform quality assurance across business analysis documentation, vendor documentation, proposals, technical designs, test documentation and operational handover documentation
• To partake in all of the key agile ceremonies within the team in order to contribute to the successful delivery

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Complex business analysis use cases
• Group facilitation sessions 
• Change control procedures
• Agile Methodologies
• Project management
• Business analysis methods
• Product development
• Matric / Grade 12 essential
• 3 Year Degree / Diploma in Information Technology / Business Analysis 5-8 years business analysis / systems analysis experience preferably in a 
• highly complex development environment essential
• Agile methodology and experience preferred
• Experience in Financial services a must
• Lending experience preferred