Business Analyst
Purpose Of Position
- As a Business Analyst you will be required to assist our clients in solving their business problems. Through the use of product and industry knowledge, you will be required to analyse the business requirements and propose solutions that help our client’s meet their organisational goals and objectives.
- You will need to interface with multi-disciplinary teams, both internally and with the client, in order to achieve the desired outcomes.
- The person looking to fulfil this role should not just be looking for a job, but should be seeking a career filled with opportunity, should enjoy the challenge of working in a complex environment; be willing to take every chance to grow on a technical and personal level and desire to be part of a senior team.
- Knowledge and Experience in Insurance would be advantageous
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in pre-sales activities using personal presence, product and industry or domain knowledge.
- Understand the business issues and challenges of a client’s organisation and industry (varied) and identify possible opportunities for business improvement
- Perform all aspects of business analysis:
- Requirement elicitation, facilitation, analysis and validation – gather, interpret and document client’s requirements (business and functional), assess and propose solutions, and translate needs into requirements for developers
- Challenge the business where appropriate to manage expectations and highlight risks/issues
- Perform Interface design through prototyping, and test usability
- Take responsibility during the development lifecycle to resolve any business-related issues identified in requirements
- Involvement and contribution to Solution Design
- Responsible for the delivery of solutions which meet client’s requirements:
- Review test approach, test cases and test plans to ensure coverage of relevant business scenarios and that the solution functions in an integrated system environment
- Conduct and assist the business with UAT
- Engage in Problem Solving and Diagnostics
- Provide support during and post implementation.
- Manage customer expectations
- Work with and facilitate communication between stakeholders at all levels as defined by individual projects.
- Support project managers
- Any other duties as required from time to time
Education and Experience
- Tertiary Education – Degree or Diploma, IT related
- 5 – 7 years’ experience in IT, working as a BA across the full SDLC (Essential)
- BABOK certifications (Desired)
- Business and/or systems analysis experience
- Must have been involved in end to end SDLC IT projects as a BA
Technical Competencies
- Knowledge and experience with IBM products preferred
- Development experience
- UX
- Insurance related processes and complexity of rules automation
Behavioural Competencies
- Ability to motivate team members
- Consistently deliver high quality service to our clients
- Being able to work in a project/team environment
- Relationship building skills both internally and in a consulting environment
- Highly organized, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to self-manage, or manage with minimal supervision i.e. organise workloads, prioritise and meet deadlines
- Pro-active and service-driven
- Friendly and personable
- Willingness and ability to remain flexible, function under pressure and maintain a positive attitude
- Confident and knowledgeable
- Administratively strong with good attention to detail
- Must be willing and able to travel
- Contribute and make recommendations for continuous internal process improvement and drive productivity improvements (internally)
- Presents thoughts and ideas in a clear and concise manner appropriate to the receiver’s needs and expectations.
- The ability to listen, advise and escalate issues where necessary
- Ability to mentor team members as required
Job Category: Business Analyst
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Johannesburg
