Senior Business Analyst

4 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa HR Genie Full time

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a 10 month contract up until 31st December 2024 to start ASAP

This role is Hybrid Based and you must be South African based in Cape Town.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Matric with degree or diploma
  • National diploma in Business Analysis, Information Systems (advantageous)
  • A minimum of 8 - 10 years experience in a business analyst role in Investment Services
  • Sound knowledge of financial markets and instruments

Technical Competencies:

  • Experience working directly with end-users in a supporting role (or as part of a support team)
  • Experience in project management or working within a project team
  • Experience working within a fast-paced and dynamic business environment (advantageous)
  • Experience working in an Investment services industry

Key Responsibilities:

  • Gather and coordinate Business and technical requirements, projects and tasks
  • Assist business to mature business requirements by challenging their representation thereof
  • Able to engage with business to unlock detailed requirements, given trivial or superficial requirement statements i.e. the art of analysis and asking the right questions
  • Relate business requirements to strategic intents of the business
  • Able to review a business process and either optimize or re-engineer for greater efficiency and/or effectiveness
  • Understand the role of non-functional requirements and which are apply in specific scenarios
  • Develop and elicit non-functional requirements as part of the analysis process, being able to relate these requirements back to business
  • Incorporate and integrate legislative requirements into the business and be cognizant where these could be compromised
  • Able to handle conflict and difficult conversations
  • Thoroughly understands Agile and SAFe and the role a BA plays this framework
  • Business and process analysis as well as impact assessment
  • Translate business requirements into proposed solutions
  • Translate business requirement into the non-technical information requirements
  • Ensure appropriate documentation are created and maintained, at a sufficiently detailed level (L4 to L5)
  • Facilitation of meetings, workshops, etc. to gather information
  • Supporting the business with regards to business and process improvement
  • Transfer of knowledge to users, trainers and peers
  • Ability to mentor and lead less senior peers

Behavioral Competencies:

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Have a passion for excellent service delivery with a demonstrated commitment to maintaining the highest standards
  • High energy and drive to completion
  • Meticulous attention to detail, with a commitment to follow through and follow-up
  • Willingness to learn and share knowledge
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Excellent time management and organizational skills
  • Ability to perform well under pressure
  • Ability to be an effective team player and pro-active individual
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences and interact with all types of clients including technology, business, management and executive management
  • Analytical, innovative and demonstrates initiative
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  • Good interpersonal and facilitation skills
  • Ability to collaborate and pull information together
  • Must be able to handle multiple high profile projects/initiatives simultaneously
  • Able to work with and make sense of differing, sometimes conflicting information from users
  • Able to guide a conversation from a seemingly unstructured/haphazard state to a more concrete, process and structured one
  • Able to comfortably and effectively work in unfamiliar domains and/or processes
  • Able to review and improve the business analysis capability in the cluster

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