Business Analyst

SUMMARY:
Datacentrix Cape Town is looking for a Business Analyst.  The primary purpose of this role is to effectively manage the gathering and analysis of business requirements from users. 
The Business Analyst will be responsible for negotiating and agreeing business requirements with the project sponsors and communicating these to the Development and Testing teams, playing a key role in enabling the Project Office and IT Delivery team to effectively manage and deliver projects

POSITION INFO:
Knowledge Skills and Experience

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Relevant certification in Business Analysis
• Minimum of 7 years Business Analysis experience
• Software Development Life Cycle experience, including testing methodologies
• Experience within an Agile environment
• Experience in the Financial Services or Retail industry
• Product knowledge of retail store cards, credit cards, loans, etc.
• Knowledge of Credit systems (Vision Plus, New business acquisition systems)
• An understanding of application development, database and system design

• Collaborate with stakeholder to Analyse & Design new and enhanced business processes:
• Ensure functional specifications are developed to support the business requirements (either developed by this person, or co-ordinate and signoff of these specifications if developed by a vendor)
• Integration with development teams to ensure effective delivery of user requirements:
• Ensure effective testing
• Once the project is completed, ensure that the centralised process flows are kept up-to-date and are continuously improved where necessary
• Ensure effective facilitation of business meetings, ensuring clear decisions are taken and decisions and actions are clearly and accurately minuted
• Provide end-to-end project co-ordination for mini-projects (effective co-ordination of resources and activities to meet agreed timelines for the project);
• Provide effective leadership: