Intermediate Business Analyst: Financial Services Industry

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Intermediate Business Analyst: Financial Services Industry: Centurion

Employment Equity Position

Perform detailed analysis, document processes, and perform user acceptance testing to support development of innovative solutions to enable business objectives.

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Responsibilities and work outputs

Conduct business analysis in line with business requirements:

• Gather and interpret requirements from key stakeholders/customers in line with business analysis
• Analyze and understand the business'' requirements and through a structured process document, validate and translate these into requirement specifications and functional specifications to be used by developers in crafting technical solutions.
• Contribute to translating the business goals into design in line with systems
• Ensure the quality delivery of requirements and business process specifications that meet the agreed deliverables in line with best practices and business process.
• Collaborate closely with solutions teams and a variety of end-users to ensure requirements compatibility and end user
• Participate in the solution design process to make recommendations to create and enhance solutions that are innovative, re-usable and sustainable and solve complex business
• Participate in user acceptance testing and guide users to ensure that the designed solution ultimately meets business
• Define the success criteria using scenario testing and test cases to ensure that testing covers all aspects of the business specification.
• Test and validate the functionality of all technical solutions in line with business requirements on completion of development to ensure that business requirements are met in the implemented
• Define reporting requirements and integration points on affected components using, amongst others, diagrammatic
• Collaborate with various business areas and teams to ensure integration and consistency of solutions across
• Keep abreast of latest IT trends and practices to optimize service offering and minimize

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Collaboration:

• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external
• Effective and consistent service delivery and support to all internal and external stakeholders to ensure that expectations are
• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional
• Continuously monitor turnaround times and quality standards and resolve issues speedily to enhance internal service
• Manage stakeholder query processes and ensure that queries are tracked, accurately resolved, and used as a mechanism to improve client service and business processes.

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Self-management, teamwork, and values:

• Contribute to creating a positive work climate and culture that energizes employees, gives meaning to work, minimizes work disruption, and maximizes employee productivity.
• Effectively manage your performance within the team to ensure business objectives are
• Be and encourage innovation, change agility and collaboration within the
• Manage own performance and development by ensuring performance contract plan in
• Live the BSS (MSTI Business Solutions and Support) team philosophy

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Competencies required

• Strong presentation skills: ability to present to audiences at all levels using different
• Ability to engage with audience; obtain requirements; obtain buy-in for the concept/proposal.
• Good facilitation skills: ensuring all stakeholders participating, dealing with different personality and behavioral styles, stimulating out of the box thinking, ability to effectively summarize and capture salient
• Ability to converse comfortably with the technical teams and gather more information if
• Strong communication skills both in a 1-to-1 and larger group
• Strong communication both in a relatively technical context as well as with non-technical users and other
• Strong documentation skills (Business writing skills, use case documentation, modelling skills (MS Visio)
• Analytical and problem-solving skills: Seek information from a wide range of sources, critically evaluate, test
• Differentiate between urgent and non-urgent, important, and unimportant according to formal prioritization lists.

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Qualifications and experience:

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• Master the 80/20 rule to prevent analysis paralysis, clearly articulate the risks and identify and manage the risk mitigation plans.
• Ability to take a stand and drive hard for resolution on key
• Is sensitive to individual and cultural similarities and differences and demonstrates humility and an openness to engage people from diverse backgrounds and cultures to the mutual benefit of all parties
• Manages self and relationships with others effectively and provides perspective in difficult
• Information Technology or related degree
• Relevant Business Analysis qualification/certification
• 3+ years’ experience in business analysis
• Proven experience in implementation of large projects
• Exposure to/experience in the Short-Term Insurance industry will be an advantage

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Recruitment notes:

Communication will only be with shortlisted candidates

Jino.swart@isilumko.co.za

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