Business Analyst

SUMMARY:
Our client is currently in the process of recruiting for a Business Analyst to Identifying business opportunities and introducing new projects, innovations that will significantly and positively impact the respective area/ project/ initiative while maintaining and ensuring that business application systems are based on sustainable and supportable technology

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:


Business Analysis Planning:
o   Conduct Stakeholder Analysis
o   Plan Business Analysis Activities
o   Plan Business Analysis Communication
o   Plan Requirements Management process; and
o  Plan monitor and report on Business Analysis performance.


 Enterprise Analysis:
o   Identify and propose projects that meet strategic needs and goals
o   Identify Business needs
o   Determine solution approach
o   Define solution scope; and assist in developing the Business case.
 Elicitation:
o   Explore, identify and document stakeholder needs;
o   Prepare Elicitations;
o   Conduct Elicitation;
o   Document Elicitation results; and
o   Confirm Elicitation
 Requirements Analysis:
o   Progressively elaborate stated requirements to sufficient level of detail that accurately defines the business need within the specified scope
o   Validate requirements meet the business need
o   Verify requirements are of acceptable quality
o   Organise requirements
o   Help prioritize requirements based on business needs
o   Specify and model requirements
o   Determine assumptions and constraints
o   Verify requirements; and Validate requirements.
Solution Assessment and Validation:
o   Assess solutions to ensure that strategic goals are met and requirements are satisfied
o   Assess requirements coverage
o   Determine Organisational readiness
o   Validate solution; and  Evaluate Solution to ensure it meets the business requirements.
 Requirements Management and Communication:
o   Recognise that communication takes place throughout all knowledge areas and is important for managing requirements
o   Manage the approved solution and requirements’ scope
o   Ensure stakeholders have access to business analysis work products
o   Prepare and communicate requirements to stakeholders (Project kick off presentation, presentation of BRD/ processes documented as well)
o   Facilitate enterprise consistency and efficiency by re-using requirements whenever possible
o   Manage solution and requirements scope
o   Manage requirements traceability
o   Maintain requirements for re-use
o   Prepare requirements package
o   Conduct formal presentation of the business case to stakeholders
o  Conduct Functional specification walkthrough to Business and Project stakeholder
o   Work effectively and efficiently to achieve outcomes.
o   Provide the business with regular progress and feedback on the requests that have been logged - feedback needs to be at an understandable level; and
o   Verbal and/or written communication to other team members and the GIT environment. 
To provide Technical Support that includes the following activities:
-      Extracting data and analyzing the information in order to define the reporting requirements more effectively and guide business where necessary
-       Connecting to data sources (aka different data, touchpoints) and creating data models and data mapping if required by the project. Defining all the systems touch points that are in scope for the project
-       Provide technical documentation which can be consumed for making development changes on applications if required Evidence (Outcomes)
-       Defined reporting requirements; data Data models/ data flow diagrams, system analysis if required.
To Deliver Projects and Business Requirements that includes the following activities:
-       Managing business expectations and prioritizing effectively to ensure projects and requirements are delivered within the agreed scope and timelines; and
-   Showing agility and flexibility to handle requirements and handle it as a controlled change management process. 

Education and Qualifications 

•     Grade 12
•     3 Year Diploma IT/Computer Science - advantageous
•     Business Analysis Qualification
•     Advanced Business Analysis Diploma/ Certification
•     IIBA Membership - advantageous
•     Agile Certification - advantageous

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