Internship: System Analyst

**Business Unit**:Discovery Central Services**Function**:Data Analysis**Date**:4 Sep 2024- Discovery - Vitality Group
Internship: Systems Analyst Junior**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 Vitality Group**
- Vitality Global, a subsidiary of Discovery Limited, is responsible for the expansion of the Vitality Shared-Value Insurance business model beyond South Africa and the UK, serving to fully leverage the assets and intellectual property of Discovery beyond its primary markets. The business forms equity or contractual partnerships with leading global insurers to integrate Vitality and shared value with partners’ insurance and financial services products in the markets where they operate. Vitality Global also operates a business providing wellness solutions to employer groups in the United States. Vitality Global is also responsible for Discovery’s 25 percent equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China. Taken together, Vitality Global’s businesses jointly reach more than 30 million lives across 40 markets, delivered through partnerships with leading insurers in every continent around the world.**Key Purpose**
- To understand the business requirements, and through a structured process, design, document, validate and translate it into models or functional documentation/report that are used stakeholders to build a technical solution and or track progress. Test and validate the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements. Ensure that the business requirements are delivered in the implemented solution. Interface between the business customer and the development team with regards to the business, non-functional and functional requirements and assist in driving innovative technical solutions.**Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**
- Business and technical requirements gathering and analysis
- Analyze, model, and interpret data using different tools and techniques
- Provide support to business in implementing effective and efficient solutions.
- Formulation of analysis documentation
- User stories creation including acceptance criteria
- Conduct Functional Specification walkthroughs/user stories with the team
- Sign-off of Functional Specifications with business owners
- Create dashboard for reporting and metrics

**Personal Attributes and Skills**
- Values Driven
- Optimistic
- Learns on the Fly
- Resilient
- Instils Trust
- People Savvy
- Drives Results
- Problem Solver
- Action oriented
- Collaborates
- Manages complexity

**Education and Experience**

**Education**
- NQF Level 5: Certified in a 3-year National Diploma, BSc Computer Science, or BCom Information Systems (or similar).
- Business Analyst Certification, Diploma, or Advanced BA Qualification (advantageous)

**Experience**
- This is an intern position

**Technical Skills**
- Requirements definition
- User Story definition
- Agile project delivery
- Facilitation
- Structured and analytical problem solver
- Process Mapping
- Support and troubleshooting
- Experience in Software Development (advantageous)
- Experience with API’s (advantageous)
- EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.