Business Analyst III

3 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Shoprite Full time

Purpose of the Job

The purpose of the Business Analyst III role is to strategize and facilitate effective and competitive business processes by eliciting, analysing, validating, and documenting business organisational and/or operational requirements, providing cost-benefit analysis, suitable alternatives and recommendations. The role conducts market analyses, analysing both product lines and the overall profitability of the business while developing and monitoring data quality metrics, ensuring business data and reporting needs are met. The role also provides technical leadership on the improvement of quality, standards, and processes by ensuring that efficient and cost-effective business solutions and processes are in place to address current to long term (> 1 year) business needs/requirements. Business decisions in this space will come to fruition within 1-3 years. This role plays an instrumental role across business and delivery teams to ensure that solutions are delivered according to the business requirements considering cost, user and organization benefit. The nature of projects in this role are generally across domains, high profile and complex in nature demanding expert business, process and technology perspectives and recommendations. 

Job Advert Details Job CategoryIT Job Objectives

Information Seeking and Analysis
Understand and analyse the current business environment.
Operate confidently within business strategy, current trends & developments in the retail industry
Improve and maintain the systems and operational processes within a specific domain.
Optimize current and potential integrated systems and E2E business processes.
Analyse and understand the customers (internal and external) that are impacted, through the use of user journeys, research and/or spending time in the various operational areas.
Analyse and document user requirements and assess the business implications of these to the business process involved.
Collaborate with user stakeholders in satisfying these requirements.

Facilitation and Influencing
Take ownership to maintain knowledge within a specific area and sharing of that knowledge across the team. This includes interviews, presentations and workshop facilitations with both business & IT.
Work closely with Architects, Designers and Business stakeholders to design and implement solutions.
Research and advise on alternatives presented by the technical designers and answer detailed questions regarding the business design.
Confidently engage the most appropriate business representatives to obtain input and agreement on alternatives (related to best practise in the industry) that are presented.
Plan, arrange and control meetings, workshops and relations with the user during the investigations, design and development of business processes and solutions.
Advise stakeholders (within IT and Business) to consider solutions which will work best for the business.
Motivate stakeholders to change practises and consider other alternatives.
Coach and mentor emerging BA team members.

Communication, Building and Maintaining Relationships
Build and optimize trusting relationships with business users and IT stakeholders by delivering what was promised and providing comprehensive knowledge and support.
Foster a partnership between business stakeholders, IT disciplines and the delivery teams.
Collaborate with all disciplines to drive out value adding solutions, ensuring quick and efficient delivery.
Communicate business requirements to IT to ensure that business needs are effectively and efficiently addressed. Keep Business Users informed of any changes (accommodating changes in requirements as they are progressively elaborated).
Drive and oversee solution assessment and validation.
Identify cultural, business and organisational constraints affecting options for change.
Train business users, rendering support and facilitating sessions for end-users.

Organising, Multitasking and Time Management
Strong commitment to project objectives and delivering high quality work.
Take responsibility for timelines within the project plan of the business analysis effort related to a project.
Plan and organise own work and deliver on promises.
Focus personal efforts on achieving results aligned to organisation objectives.

Knowledge and Application
Research, document and prepare business cases. Review and advise on various business cases which will align with the business strategies of the organisation (including feasibility and business benefits).
Actively investigate and recommend opportunities to optimize the business' offering and add value to our customers through the solutions we provide.
Confidently provide solutions and ensure an understanding of scope by business user.
Implement feasible techniques to elicit and analyse business problems and translate them into business requirements.
Evaluate technical solutions and business processes against business requirements.
Facilitate and co-ordinate User Acceptance Testing - extract feedback and learnings and input back into relevant IT solution teams.
Analyse and document project risks and recommend risk mitigation strategies.

Qualifications Degree or Diploma in Information Technology or a related field – (essential). Business Analysis certification at Practitioner level (ECBA, CCBA), FTI certification or similar – (desired). Experience +6 years’ experience in a Business Analyst role with a strong technical background, proven track record of successful delivery in a BA environment and demonstrable experience working within all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) – (essential). We are currently searching for BA III’s with exposure to workforce management (desired), learning and development (desired) and have experience in the Human Resources functional area (essential) Knowledge and Skills Strong IT and process modelling skills – (essential). Strong understanding of agile development, servers, databases and networking – (essential). Exposure to SAP and relevant modules (per functional areas) – (preferred). Good business acumen along with strong business understanding of the broader retail industry – (desired)

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