Business Analyst (Intermediate) - LifeBusiness Unit: Discovery Life
Function: Business Analysis
Date: 29 Oct 2024
About Discovery Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Discovery Life Discovery Life is an ever growing fast-paced and dynamic environment that provides innovative risk assurance to individual clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our brokers and other stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide a world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.
Key Purpose Gather, analyze and document business requirements for Discovery Life's web-based Quoting application.Analyze and document business requirements needed to migrate the Discovery Life Products from the existing offline quoting solution to the new web-based solution.Maintenance of the existing non-web-based quoting application until its de-commissioning.Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to Conduct analysis of the Actuarial Product specs and translate the requirements into Business or Functional requirements needed for Systems development.Facilitate interviews and information gathering sessions with stakeholders and present the solutions.Compile the Business/Functional Requirements Specifications which includes, but is not limited to:Working with the UX Designer to create the screens needed for the quoting application.Defining the business rules/validations/field functionality for the User Interface.Compiling user-friendly error message wording.Assist the Business Analyst responsible for compiling the Business requirements needed to produce the quote reports.Conduct root cause analysis and investigation of production defects and propose a solution.Assist the Testing Team during the User Acceptance testing phase.Identify gaps, trends and process improvement opportunities.Collaborate, negotiate and co-ordinate with various stakeholders to produce and obtain sign off of Business requirements.Education and Experience Matric Maths PassMore than 3 years experience as a Business Analyst in a Life Insurance CompanyPersonal Attributes and Skills Intermediate knowledge of: Technologies: Agile Methodology, Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), JIRA, Confluence, TeamsAnalytical SkillsPlanning and organizational skillsQuality AssuranceAbility to work under pressureBehavioural Skills: Logical ReasoningIntegrityConfidentStrong work ethicSelf-developmentEMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
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