Business Analyst

Business Analyst 

Salary: Up to R 500.00 per hour

A well-established firm has an opportunity for a Business Analyst to join their team in Johannesburg

Minimum requirements:

• Payroll Software experience
• Valid code B driver’s license and own transport
• 3+ years’ experience with in the same or similar roll
• Broad IT domain experience in three or more of the following areas: Business Analysis, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Support
• Previous experience with SCRUM will be beneficial
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Critical and analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with general business functions and business acumen
• Ability to work in a team and manage development outputs

Duties will include, but not limited to:

• Works with business client to elicit high-level requirements and capture business needs
• Clearly articulates and document business requirements (UX, flow and business rules) at the appropriate level of detail to the development team
• Considers UX principles best practice to review and validate functional and system designs with the development team and the client
• Obtains key inputs from development team and identifies solution interdependencies
• Applies UX principles best practice to design activities
• Collects and collates development effort as input to the finalization of the solution and proposal to the client
• Prioritizes project task back log across projects
• Runs the daily development team stand-up
• Manages ongoing relationship with client and development team to drive satisfaction of development outputs
• Coordination and completion of projects on time, within budget and within scope
• General oversight of the project ensuring weekly reviews of the project roadmap, sprint plans, financial tracking, and time capture
• Ensure project is managed well by setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, highlighting risks and providing weekly feedback on the progress of project to Manco
• Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of project
• Understanding full requirements to quote the client
• Collaborate with the assigned team to break down tasks and provide time estimates and costings. Draft documentation to be sent to client
• Capturing business needs and shaping requirements through dialogue with clients and internal solutions team
• Understanding end-user requirements
• Working on solution design and communicating with solutions team
• Integration planning/dependency management/business process mapping, and support testing

Please note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted