Senior Specialist: Business Analysis

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- 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

Responsible for working with business functions to identify, investigate and analyse 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 optimise the business.

The senior Business Analyst must have the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and will be responsible for delegating and overseeing tasks assigned to the junior Business Analyst.

**Job Description**:
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.
- 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

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.

Assessment and Validation of Solutions
- Co-ordinate all user acceptance testing with regard to securing test users, the test location, the relevant access rights and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Absa Group Technology IT methodology.
- Assist the systems-management function with setting up and undertaking the IT-systems user-acceptance tests by both business users and IT staff to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.

Stakeholder Management

Develop and maintain relationships with key Project and Business stakeholders to drive Change data strategy and execution.
- Ensure data analytics and design are communicated to and understood by Business Stakeholders

Provide business-oriented insights and articulate how solutions can support these

Provide leadership and input into Compliance Change team to drive delivery of strategic objectives.

Skills and Experience Needed
- Business Planning & Design, including advanced understanding of operations, process and IT.
- Advantageous: Data analysis and process engineer based on industry-standard methodologies.
- Understanding of means of business requirements gathering - including business process re-engineering, input into organisational design, operating models.
- Advantageous: Knowledge of a Bank’s products, services and policies
- 5 or more years’ business analysis experience.
- Advantageous: 3 years’ work experience in the Financial Industry.

Certificate Program in Business Analysis, Data Analysis and Process Analysis is advantageous.

**Qualifications**:
Minimum requirements:
B degree with preference for a BSc, BSc (Eng), BSc (Computer Science) or BCom (Informatics)

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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