Specialist: Business Analyst at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• The purpose of the job is to perform the role of a Business Analyst for the Trading, Investments and Risk Systems used within the LibFin environment. LibFin uses vendor solutions and internally built systems that require improvement overtime. The Business Analyst will be responsible for managing the improvements and will be deployed on special projects and feature teams as and when required by the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop/configure front end and back-end portions of a trading and risk management systems used by traders and Libfin in the financial markets (Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Equity Derivatives, Foreign Exchange Derivatives, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Commodities, Structured Products)
• Participate in the rapid development of pricing and risk tools
• Utilise strong inter-personal/communication skills to ensure that an acceptable level of service is delivered to customers
• Ability to work in a high pressured environment
• Strong analytical skills to document changes to workflows and systems and understand the impact of those changes
• Implementation and documentation of business processes to enhance the integrity and accuracy of reporting
• Document Business Requirements for development, Integration documentation for information flows within the business
• Documentation of Processes and enhancements to Processes, and handing over of the deliverable to the Business as Usual function
• Data analysis and mapping, Gap analysis

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and Professional Qualifications in Finance Economics and Accounting or Actuarial Sciences or Information Systems or any relevant qualification

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment

Additional Minimum Experience

• Must have a good understanding of financial products in the South African market
• Must have experience with the configuration and maintenance of trading systems
• Derivatives exposure would be beneficial
• Exposure to the insurance industry would be beneficial
• Must understand market data concepts as well as pricing concepts
• Understanding of financial products in the South African market
• Process
• Apply relevant research methodologies, tools and techniques to effectively and purposefully gather information.
• Investigate and analyse business requirements and current systems to provide input into the design of processes addressing these needs.
• Provide specialist advice and support in area of accountability to ensure that identified solutions and recommendations are appropriate and effective.
• Comprehensively test solution to ensure delivery according to identified requirements and document changes for recording and governance purposes.
• Accountable for the execution of specialised work including the improvement of quality, standards and outputs within defined work routines and operating procedures.
• Proactively solves problems, determines root-cause and applies solutions in line with guidelines and providing the necessary information to solve problems related to area of specialisation.
• Plan for own task execution and advises on improvements related to area of specialisation.

Customer

• Ensure own understanding and adherence to customer service delivery and Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles to provide specialist support and guidance.
• Finance
• Adhere to specified standards, policies and procedures to prevent potential losses/wastage related to the area of specialisation.

Learning and Growth

• Interact proactively with others for the purpose of continuous knowledge sharing; and integration of own new knowledge.
• Contribute positively to own area-specific knowledge improvement associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Comply to set governance and compliance procedures and processes related to an area of work and continuously identify, rectify and escalate risks where necessary.

Technical Competencies

• Requirements validation (Basic)
• IT Business Analysis (Intermediate)
• Research and Information Gathering (Basic)
• Reporting and Interpretation (Basic)
• System Requirements Elicitation (Basic)
• Customer Advice (Technical) (Basic)

Behavioural Competencies

• Professional/Technical learning (Basic)
• Organisation and Attention to Detail (Basic)
• Interpersonal Effectiveness (Basic)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Basic)
• Teamwork and Cooperation (Basic)
• Communicating with Impact (Basic)
• Relationship Management and Networking (Basic)
• Customer Orientation (Basic)