Business Analyst

The role will focus on areas of creating technical documentation, review and analyze the business domain, and work with developers and stakeholders.

The Requirements are as follows:

• Bachelor’s Degree / Post Graduate Qualification (i.e. Business Management, Information Technology, Accounting) - Essential
• Minimum 5 years solid Business Analysis / System Analysis experience – Essential
• Knowledge of Business Process Model and Notation – Essential

• BPM/UML experience – Preferred

• ITIL and TOGAF experience - Preferred
• ERP integrated business system experience - Preferred
• PMP, Prince 2, and/or CBAP certification – Preferred
• Integration experience with 3rd party vendors or multiple inter-dependencies – Advantageous
• ERP integrated business system experience – Preferred
• Working technical knowledge of common programming languages
• Working knowledge of network and PC operating systems
• Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts
• Working technical knowledge of common programming languages

• Background and experience in design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.

Overview of Key Activities:

• Customize an approach to managing issues, risks, and requirement for the Organization.
• Develop a monitoring and evaluation report tool for the Organization’s requirements activities; and customize processes to manage change on projects.
• Conduct feasibility studies.
• Track requirements and thorough implementation.
• Define business needs in accordance with strategic direction.
• Conduct capability gap analysis, verify and validate requirements.
• Modelling the business using process diagrams, flowcharts, data models etc.
• Work with project teams towards defining solutions that will meet the agreed requirement.
• Assess proposed solutions to help the business to select the best fit to its requirements.
• Evaluate alternative solutions, quality assurance processes, support through implementation and post implementation reviews.
• Coordinate and facilitate to ensure successful development and maintenance of change management policy for changes or updates to allocation systems.
• Document system operations and user manuals.
• Promotes adherence to government policy and overall financial function.
• Monitors compliance with policy.
• Ensure that the project deliverables are delivered in time and within budget.
• Monitor deployments, implementation, maintenance of applications systems according to business requirements and strategic plans.
• Develop and implement communication plans for effective communication, negotiations and influencing understanding of the need of non-technical to internal clients on all levels.
• Coordinate the approval process aligned to agreed requirements.
• Ensure the project teams and stakeholders do not deviate from the agreements on project scopes.
• Perform any other duties as deemed necessary by the IT Manager.

Behavioral competencies:

• Ethical with a high level of integrity.
• Embrace and solve problems, likes to ask why and how.
• Ability to understand the Company’s activities and how they must integrate to achieve the organization’s strategic goals.
• Ability to demonstrate strong critical thinking skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Interpersonal, consultative and facilitation skills.
• Ability to organize, interpret and present information in a meaningful way to diverse audiences.
• Strong attention to detail.

Applicant must be prepared to:

• Undergo a screening process i.e. PPA and TEIQ.
• Must be prepared to work overtime at short notice.