Advert Reference:
P13531 IT Senior Business Analyst - Centurion
Job Title:
IT Senior Business Analyst - Centurion
Closing Date:
2024/08/16
Position Available From:
2024-08-13
Area:
Centurion
Actual Place Of Work:
Centurion
Position Type:
Full-Time
Weekly Hours:
40
Time Conditions:
5 day Work Week (South Africa)
Purpose of Position:
The Business Analyst's role is to elicit, analyse, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions they need. The Business Analyst will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem solving skills to help the business make good technology decisions. The Business Analyst will also be proactive about working with other team members to look for new technologies to optimize business processes. The Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT's understanding of business requirements.
Requirements:
BABOK certification (Advantageous) (Required), Six-Sigma Black Belt certification (Advantageous) (Required), University Degree in Computer Science, Informatics or Business administration. Post Graduate Degree preferred (Required)
Required Experience:
8 - 10 years' direct work experience. Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language. Clear understanding of product management and market placement. Demonstrated knowledge of the organization's core business process and operations. Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources. Excellent understanding of the organization's goals and objectives. Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required. Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products. Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling / mapping, elicitation, modeling, verification, methodology development, and data modeling using BPMN notation. Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.
Key Responsibilities:
Analyse and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards. Analyses and designs business processes to identify alternative solutions to improve efficiency, effectiveness and exploit new technologies and automation. Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders. Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements and processes - verbally or through written documentation - to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood. Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods. Contributes to the definition of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for business process improvement. Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and map to provide direction to developers and / or the project team. Develop and conduct peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted. Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications. Establishes requirements baselines and ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed. Identify and establish scope and parameters of process analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions. Lead in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed-upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts. Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the requirements lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary. Manages the execution of business process improvements. Map existing business processes in order to define current business activities for the development of procedures and models. Map To-Be processes in line with finalized business requirements. Obtains input from, and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts. Participate in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized. Participate in the selection of any requirements or process documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use. Perform cost-benefit and return on investment (ROI) analyses for proposed changes to aid management in making implementation decisions. Plans and drives requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives. Plans and manages acceptance testing activity. Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, or alternatives for improving processes in operating systems across the organization. Provide feedback on business analysis activities at project progress meetings.
Note: Applicants must have a South African ID or a valid South African work permit. We do not accept any faxed or emailed CVs. If we have not contacted you within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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