Business Analyst

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Business Analyst

Pretoria East

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We have an amazing opportunity for a Business Analyst that is passionate about technology, innovative, and loves playing a part in the successful implementation of solutions.

The purpose of this role is the practice of enabling change in our customer’s organizations, by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders. This role is required to conduct detailed analysis based on business problems that exist and/or opportunities identified, to recommend the appropriate action required to address the change in conjunction with impact-aware thinking in terms of the broader ecosystem. The Business Analyst will be responsible to understand and interpret the business requirements and interpret those through business, systems, and technical documentation so that business and technical readers understand what needs to be delivered.

Key Accountabilities

• To analyze and understand project scope and core objectives linked to the product roadmap
• Assist in requirements elicitation workshops with stakeholders to define high-level business requirements
• Working closely with the Product Manager to define business requirements for functional and technical user stories and project specifications, by ensuring that projects are broken down into phases to deliver immediate business benefit
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with the project team to analyze information needs and functional requirements to deliver the following artefacts that are needed:
  • Business/functional requirement specifications
  • Wireframes
  • Workflow/Process flow diagrams
  • Data Models
• Build and maintain reporting to measure the success of projects
• Be proactive in ensuring that the Development team understands the requirements by attending daily team meetings and initiating functional clarification sessions
• Take ownership of user acceptance testing.
• Take ownership for system bugs and technical issues that are escalated from various users, by performing relevant analysis to troubleshoot and escalating to engineering and stakeholders
• Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage

• Understand and communicate the financial and operational impact of any changes

Skills, know-how, and experience:

• A proven track record of delivering results, in a fast-paced environment
• Good basic technical understanding of software development processes
• A solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking
• Highly structured thinker with strong attention to detail
• Versatile, resourceful, and able to work on varied tasks simultaneously
• Ability to verbalize and visualise outcomes and communicate trends in a clear, concise manner

• An understanding of the Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and a hybrid of these two methodologies
• Must be able to listen, advise, and escalate issues early in the project life cycle
• Good understanding of the business analysis concepts, tools, and methodology
• Basic understanding of software systems and software development lifecycles
• Basic understanding of software environments and the integration requirements of product interfaces the clients, domains, business environment, and especially their supply chain and warehousing challenges
• Good understanding of project management from experience and/or academic qualification
• Good understanding of people management requirements

Requirements

Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in the appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience

• 3+ years industry experience

Beneficial

• Experience in working with Agile Teams and successfully delivering Agile based software projects (including attending daily scrums, Kanban boards)
• Data Analysis / Process Analysis