Contract Business Systems Analyst - 6 months contract (renewable)-Hybrid-Cape Town - SA citizens onl

SUMMARY:
Business, Systems, Analyst, 6, months, contract, renewable, Hybrid, Cape, Town, SA, citizens, only

POSITION INFO:

We are seeking a Senior CONTRACT Business Systems Analyst with no less than 5 years of Financial Services experience. Ideally coming from Offshore Investments or Asset Management industries.

Someone with Strong SQL and Integration and API experience as well as Testing and Data Analysis

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A CONTRACT - HYBRID ROLE (3 days in Office) and you must be a South African Citizen. The contract is renewable based on performance

Job Purpose

As a Senior Business Systems Analyst you will play a critical role as a problem solver and be the person who assists in defining and enabling business change in an agile environment within the Domain. 

Your primary responsibility is to define, design and manage the business requirements which maintain the GI products in various systems, as well as deliver solutions that are fit for purpose, that focus on efficiencies and that deliver business value.

Key outcomes

The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by the Business Systems Analyst:

•Understanding the business needs as they relate to a potential change or transformation

•Gathering, identifying and documenting business requirements

•Analyse business and system requirements and the business implication of user requirements to the business process involved.

•Produce documentation accordingly and propose improvements where appropriate

•Assist with solution design (to ensure requirements met)

•Engage the most appropriate business representatives to obtain input and agreement on alternative solutions thatare presented.

•Extract data via SQL

•Acting as a consultant to the business on best outcomes for a particular business problem or initiative

•Facilitating group workshops and meetings

•Manage the product development process by prioritizing requirements for implementation, and overseeing thestages leading up to a release

•Explaining technical jargon to non-technical/ business teams by simplifying requirements so they are easilyunderstood across the whole team

•Define scope of solution and ensure understanding of scope by business users are aligned

•Building relationships with all key stakeholders this includes business owners, product owners, development teams,trainers and users

•Liaise with other project areas to co-ordinate interdependencies and resolve issues

Qualifications and Experience

• B.Com. B.Sc. in Information Technology or Informatics (Honors / Masters degrees advantageous)
• Relevant formal qualification in Business Analysis. E.g. Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) or Advanced Diploma in Business Analysis (AdBA)
• Honours degree in business/ information technology will be advantageous
• At least +8 years' experience in similar role
• Experience working on IMS and GPRO advantageous
• Experience in implementing solutions within ERP systems useful
• Small, medium and large project experience
• Integration experience
• SQL knowledge
• Data management and data analysis experience
• Experience of working with offshore vendors and with all users of all levels within business
• System testing experience