Specialist: Business Analysis

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- 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

The Business Analyst facilitates business and cross-competency teams to understand, analyse and document relevant business functions and business requirements in completing tasks related to business solution planning, documenting and managing customer requirements. The work of the BA also includes process analysis; business process and requirements modelling and analysis. The role works with business stakeholders, Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, System Architects, System Analysts, Developers and Project Management to develop and implement business solutions on within the Absa Environment.

**Job Description**:
The Business Analyst is accountable for
- Gathering requirements from business.

Creating enabling documentation (Business Requirement Definition, User stories and user acceptance criteria. Defining a functional solution in accordance with the organizational needs.
- Tracking the requirements throughout the life cycle of the project.

Translating requirements into the foundation of the User Acceptance Criteria, and working through to UAT completion and implementation.

Providing inputs to partners during the project lifecycle (Reviewing Technical Solution Specification prepared by System Analyst and development team).


Plan & Organise
- Prepare for requirements elicitation, conduct elicitation activities, document and confirm elicitation results

As part of requirements analysis:
› Organise and prioritise requirements

› Specify and model requirements using organizations methodology

› Determine assumptions and constraints

› Verify requirement for correctness and validating that they satisfy the business need

› Assess and validate proposed solutions to determine which solution fits the need.

› Validating that the verified and deployed solution meets the need.

› Work with business leaders in identifying and bringing strategic initiatives from concept to implementation.


As the Business Analyst:
Work with project leads in the planning of BA activities that are required to define the solution to a business problem including scope of work, deliverables, determine tasks and interdependencies between tasks and corresponding Business Analysis efforts, quality of the solution, consistency of BA work products and BA performance metrics for multiple projects. Plan requirements management in terms of documentation, tracing, prioritizing, creating baseline, change management etc.

- Conduct stakeholder analysis to determine appropriate stakeholders for the project or project phase and analyse stakeholder.

**Job Description**:
Prepare a Business Analysis communication plan detailing the items for communication, the recipients, mode of communication and frequency.
- Define solution scope.
- Determine organizational readiness effectively to operate the new solution.
- Identify and communicate risk and issues that may require changes to plans and scope.
- Plan and coach for adoption of new business analysis techniques and tools.

Delivery & Support
- Create requirements package
- Communicate with solution team to assure that requirements are correctly understood and implemented
- As part of requirements traceability management:

- Trace requirements (Update and maintain relationships between requirements components)
- Perform impact analysis when changes are requested and supply this information to the change control process
- Facilitate ongoing use of requirements for impact analysis and solution maintenance.
- Facilitate reuse of requirements on related projects to encourage enterprise consistency of business models.

Contributing to the documentation of Test Plans and work in partnership with testers to coordinate testing effort throughout its life.
- Identify, document and analyse business risk.
- Provide Implementation support

Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications:

- BTech, Bsc Computer Science, or BCom Degree with major in information systems (preferred)
- PASA accreditation: (preferable)

Work Experience:

- Experience within the credit card business is mandatory (3 years minimum)
- Experience within the payments business is preferable (3 years minimum)

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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