Snr Spec: Business Analyst at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• The Business Analyst will fill the role of being a vital link between the Data Management Information Technology capacity (i.e., FRID) and business objectives by supporting and ensuring the successful completion of analytical, building, testing, and deployment tasks of FRID's software products features. The Analyst will be required to help the team members to map, analyze and document the technical requirements.
• Additionally, the Business Analyst will have a responsibility to coach and train newly-on boarded entry-level and junior Business Analysts on the Knowledge Areas defined by the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK). 

Responsibilities

• Gathering user business requirements by meeting with business users,
• Coordinating and facilitating various project workshops,,
• Creating to-be view (solution design) of the business, system, and data perspectives,
• Developing Contextual, Conceptual and Logical views,
• Preparing source to target mappings for the ETLs,
• Developing pseudo-code and code for functional requirements,
• Developing procedures, packages, schedule jobs, once ff extracts,
• Supporting half-yearly valuations including data checks, business recon, assisting business queries, business report extracts, etc.
• End-to-end experience with testing framework including strategy planning, environment-setups, test planning, verification, validation, scripting, execution, and review,

Additional Responsibilities

• Requirement Management Lifecycle - analysing, evaluating and solutioning functional as well as non-functional requirements,
• Proficiency in handling business, system, and data troubleshooting
• Developing strong, sustainable relationships with users & project teams,
• Leading the quality assurance of all team deliveries,
• Leading and coordinating internal audits,
• Assisting senior management teams and coordinating external audits
• Analysing and time to time reviewing operating procedures and policies,

Experience

• Minimum 3 years Business Analysis experience.
• Experience in the delivery of large scale and complex custom development projects; and
• Minimum 3 years Business Process Modelling experience.
• Consulting background / experience would be an advantage.