Business Analyst

1 month ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Recru-it Full time
Job Description:
To apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order to understand the problems, opportunities, needs, structure; policies and operations of the organization on large; high risk and complex projects. To recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. To elicit and analyze the actual needs of the stakeholders; facilitate communication between organizational units and play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and may serve as a translator between these groups. The BA should have years of deep practical experience in the role; with repeated practice performing business analysis in varied complex situations.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
  • Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.
  • Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify, and model.
  • Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
  • Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
  • Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
  • Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies, and practices.
  • Analyze and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.
  • Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPls metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
  • Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly.
  • Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate in defining the proposed solution.
  • Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives, and dependencies across projects.
  • Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
  • Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
  • Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect.
  • Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements.
  • Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization.
  • Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive.
  • Analyze/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs.
  • Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies, and enterprise delivery up to senior level.
  • Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
  • Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners.
  • Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration.
  • Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks and issues.
  • Guide others on how to effectively use common techniques.

Qualifications:
  • IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification.
  • 5 - 8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, and industry exposure.
  • Experience:
    • Collections & Recovery
    • Credit & Risk Management
    • Secured & Unsecured Lending
    • Payments
    • Wealth Products experience
    • Product and Client Onboarding.
  • Agile experience essential (Not just writing stories in Jira and Confluence)





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