Business Analyst - Logistics & Transportation BPM

SUMMARY:
One of the leading tech companies in South Africa, is looking for a Business Analyst - Logistics & Transportation BPM to join their innovative team. Our client is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. Candidate must be hands on and should be solution orientated. This opportunity will come with comprehensive

POSITION INFO:

Description:

Solid Business Process mapping, re-engineering and improvement skills and experience a must. Works independently taking full responsibility for a certain area within Business Analysis. Primary role in Business Analysis acting as a key interface between the technical project team and user communities. This position serves as a liaison between the technical team and subject matter experts/end users. The Business Analyst is responsible for working as a liaison among project stakeholders to understand business structure, policies and processes and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. Responsible for eliciting the needs of stakeholders not simply their expressed desires, working with the business to prioritize those needs, ensuring alignment to business objectives. The Business Analyst is also responsible for clearly documenting and expressing functional, non-functional and transition requirements/user stories to IT stakeholders such as systems analysts, developers and quality assurance analysts to ensure the right solution is built to meet business needs 

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

Knowledge of Business Analysis

Must have knowledge in the following:

• Elicits, Analyses and Documents Requirements (i.e., user stories, use cases, business, user, functional, non-functional, transition)
• Works with business stakeholders to gather functional requirements
• Liaison between business and IT stakeholders, meeting with System Analysts, Quality Assurance Analysts, Project Managers and other resources needed to ensure requirements are met
• Work with the Product Owners to prioritise delivery
• Works with business stakeholders in leading User Acceptance Testing, following up on testing progress and defect resolution
• Identifies and assesses risks to the success of the project. Agrees the project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from
• investigations into business requirements and problems and identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.
• Produces specific business cases and scenarios and defines and documents system acceptance criteria.
• Defines routine, integrated processes and documents using basic formal process charting techniques.
• Works on formal requirements gathering and documentation. Assists in the collection of functional and technical requirements and in the development of design documents.
• Works on projects using available frameworks and tools and establishes plans for projects with on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Maintains the status of projects and provides guidance to the work of junior team members. Works across teams to achieve group goals.
• Test coverage analysis, risk prioritisation, analysis of defect trends, and identification of risks associated with issues identified in the project.
• Prepares project scope. Provides inputs to test strategy and approach.
• Preparation of training material for the team and vertical practice

Desirable:

• Additional course or certification in Business Analysis
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred
• Certified Agile Business Analyst certified preferred
• MBA preferred

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