Business Architect

3 months ago


Sandton, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

**Business Unit**:Discovery Insure**Function**:Business Analysis**Date**:20 Sep 2024**Discovery - Insure**

**Business Architect**

**About Discovery**

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

**About Discovery Insure**

Discovery Insure is committed to creating a nation of great drivers and offering market-leading insurance coverage through our innovative Shared-value Insurance model. Discovery Insure is South Africa’s fastest growing short-term insurance company with comprehensive products that provide protection against current and emerging risks facing clients in the motor and home sectors. Vitality Drive, an internationally-recognised and award-winning programme, is a key differentiator in the market that incentivises and rewards clients for driving well. The Vitality Drive programme has been scaled to local and international markets which now include Europe and the Middle East. The company employs over 1 000 people who are committed to putting our customers and financial advisers first by providing unique and innovative solutions and cover

**Key Purpose**
- To provide support to the business unit by:
**Business Architect**: Responsible for
- Understanding Business Needs and translating these to System projects and System Improvements or to Manual Process Improvements
- Ensuring Quality in Business with respect to understanding: Organisation structure, Business Processes, Business Rules and System support
- Lead In Product Development Analysis and design
- Lead in Critical Projects Analysis and Design
- Ensuring consistent process documentation (SOPs) exist and that these are up to date in line with IQS standards and requirements.
- Advises on the optimisation of resources and profitability of projects or resources.
- Without supervision undertakes specialist feasibility analysis, evaluations or business projects
- Gives feedback on delivery and project plans and assists with impact analysis
- Conducts special studies and prepares recommendations for policy, procedure, control or action. Analyses information to determine present and future performance.
- Makes recommendations to management regarding opportunities, progress and improvement strategies.
- Has an understanding of the many components that make up a business and is able to research and build entire business needs from scratch considering all elements.
- May be in any discipline in the organisation or a combination of disciplines. e.g. Marketing, Supply, Logistics, Pricing, Human Resources et cetera. May be required to consolidate the business plans and the financial forecasts.

**Business Analyst Team Manager**
- Resource Planning for project work and Business As Usual items
- Project Prioritisations in the projects Steering committees
- Quality Assurance of all Business Analysis done within the team to ensure correctness and completeness

**Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to**

**Project Resourcing and prioritization**
- To provide understanding of how projects will be resources and prioritised from an analysis point of view

**Analysis Support**
- To provide support during the Analysis phase by being available for questions or clarification, and providing feedback to analysts as appropriate. Doing reviews.

**Guidance and advice to the Business**
- To provide sound guidance and advice on planned changes to business by striving to clearly understand business needs and making considered recommendations as appropriate. To ensure consistent process documentation (SOPs) exist and that these are up to date in line with IQS standards and requirements.

**Critical Project Support**
- Ensuring that the correct analysis and designs are implemented for business-Critical projects.

**Line Management**
- Full line management function within scope of role

**Compliance Support**
- Technology and business due diligence.

**Strategic Business Support**
- Ensuring alignment of strategic objectives of the business goals to all implementations. Critical success factors and measurable goals.

**Skills and Knowledge**
- Analytical and Conceptual (Advanced).
- Communication (written and verbal) (Advanced).
- Project Management (Intermediate).
- Multi-tasking (Advanced).
- Leadership (Advanced).
- Relationship Building (Advanced).
- Problem Solving (Advanced).
- Business Architecture document development (Advanced).
- Solution Design (Advanced).
- Systems (Advanced).
- Development (Intermediate).
- Technology life cycle (Advanced).
- Business (Advanced).

**Education an



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