Business Analyst - xHub

SUMMARY:

Position: Senior BA - Must have Payment Solution experience within or consulting to the Banking Industry. Company:   A key player in the Central Banking space. The company was formed in South Africa in 1999. Transforming the National Payment System in South Africa, including the development and implementation of a sophisticated RTGS solution and inter-bank network. The company was later purchased by an international group with Head Office based in Milan, Italy. The Group is currently present in around 40 countries. Position is a 1 year contract renewable annually. Must be willing to travel internationally.

POSITION INFO:

The Business Analyst is a key role in the company and is accountable to drive efficiency and operational improvements by defining the business solution, obtaining system alignment, and optimization of current and future business application
functionality. The role is also responsible for analyzing requests or requirements for applications in order to determine
the impact on the business as a singular and integrated system.
Responsibilities:
 - Analyse and clarify requests or requirements in order to agree the business solution with the end user.
 - Define and document User Stories and their related acceptance criteria.
- Create user interface mock-ups and wireframes as part of the requirements specification documentation
- Create UML use cases, activity diagrams and functional specifications from business requirements
- Guide the development effort by conveying the end user’s vision to the software factory.
 - Bridging the gap between the end user, business stakeholder and development team.
 - Participate in technical design sessions, working with technical resources, to provide insight during solution
development
- Create and maintain the product backlog. This includes agreeing the prioritization of items with the end user’s.
 - Participates in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
 - Participate in technical design sessions, working with technical resources, to provide insight during solution
development
- Inspects the product progress at the end of every Sprint and has complete authority to accept or reject work
done.
- Demonstrate the system to the end user after each iteration.
- Create user manuals and other training related material.
- Assist in creating test cases when needed.
- Train end users on the applications.
- Assist in system acceptance testing and troubleshooting.
 -Act as a user liaison to resolve system issues and write reports according to user or management requests.
- Defining and standardising field level validation rules in keeping with accepted standards, i.e. SWIFT
- Ensure quality assurance of applications.
 - Conduct and apply research on global financial market trends in the payments, settlement and securities
environment.

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