Business Analyst

Job Description: To apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order to understand the problems, opportunities, needs, structure; policies and operations of the organization on large; high risk and complex projects. To recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. To elicit and analyze the actual needs of the stakeholders; facilitate communication between organizational units and play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and may serve as a translator between these groups. The BA should have years of deep practical experience in the role; with repeated practice performing business analysis in varied complex situations. Key Roles and Responsibilities: Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives. Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders. Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify, and model. Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement. Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution. Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value. Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies, and practices. Analyze and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements. Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPls metrics, and align requirements accordingly. Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly. Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate in defining the proposed solution. Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives, and dependencies across projects. Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories. Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain. Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect. Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements. Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization. Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive. Analyze/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs. Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies, and enterprise delivery up to senior level. Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement. Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners. Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration. Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks and issues. Guide others on how to effectively use common techniques. Qualifications: IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification. 5 - 8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, and industry exposure. Experience: Collections & Recovery Credit & Risk Management Secured & Unsecured Lending Payments Wealth Products experience Product and Client Onboarding. Agile experience essential (Not just writing stories in Jira and Confluence)

Location: Johannesburg, ZA

Posted Date: 11/14/2024