Senior Specialist: Business Analysis

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time
Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us

  • With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary


To provide specialist advice and support in the development and implementation of business analysis and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques.

Responsible for working with business functions to identify, investigate and analyze problems faced by business/product owners.

Based on this analysis, the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution to address the business requirements in full, as needed to optimize the business.


Job Description:

Accountability:
Project Establishment Initiation Activities

  • Develop design principles based on the initial brief and scope provided to guide the project's implementation activities, including the requirements planning stage and the management of change requests.
  • Assist and support business operations, with the 'As Is' and 'To Be' process mapping on projects and also when changes to operational policies, procedures and processes occur.
  • Build and maintain relationships with key role players by communicating regularly and working closely with them to elicit business requirements, evaluate and recommend possible business solutions, make assessments and produce feasibility analysis.
  • Proactively identify project risks and issues through consultation with key stakeholders and communicating these with the Project Manager (PM).
  • Assist the Business Analyst Lead with ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other
- documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is obtained by facilitating a project definition workshop.

  • Develop hypotheses to achieve project goals based on the outcomes of the project definition workshop and use these to guide the fact gathering and analysis.
  • Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of possible business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented, circulated and signed off by the relevant stakeholders, and handed over to the PM for use in defining and designing the project.
  • Facilitate workshops in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project so that the project is suitably defined, designed and implemented.
  • Assist the PM with defining timelines and milestones for expected deliverables.

Accountability:
Business Requirements Activities

  • Analyse the "as is" "business architectures", to identify any issues, opportunities, etc. This includes the analysis of all existing products & services, the procedures and business rules, the organisation structures, functions, roles & responsibilities, the business processes & procedures, the IT systems functionalities, data, performance and measurement metrics.
  • Investigate and perform a business needs analysis, by interviewing the product or business process owners, to determine business requirements and identify possible alternatives and or solutions to achieve these requirements.
  • Perform "root cause" issues analysis with key stakeholders by either conducting interviews or workshop to further evaluate and identify solutions and/or alternatives to meet the business requirements and document all findings to assist with project definition, design and build.
  • Set up and facilitate workshops with relevant stakeholders to gather, identify and document the project and business owner requirements to be used in the project definition, design and build.
  • Investigate options available and provide recommendations, best practices, alternatives etc. and obtain up to date information in relation to the project requirements / objectives by referring to internal and external parties to ensure the best solution is considered and identified for the project.

Accountability:
Solution Analysis and Documentation

  • Design the "to be" "business architectures" by using the identified design principles and document the ideas by working through increasing levels of design detail (i.e. conceptual/high level/detailed design levels).
  • Identify and design new and/or improved business process systems and/or procedures to deliver project goals by ensuring that the best solution is considered and identified for the project.
  • Undertake a feasibility and impact analysis of solutions identified (people, process, data and system infrastructure) with key stakeholders, internal, external and technology staff to further define project requirements for the definition, design and build of the project.
  • Identify IT interfaces, IT integration points to ensure integration into functional specifications, by consulting and workshopping with the IT System Analysis teams, Group Strategy, Enterpr

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