Lead Business Analyst

Recruiter:

Quarphix

Job Ref:

JHB000062/FK

Date posted:

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

JOB SUMMARY:
We are actively recruiting for a Lead Business Analyst role for our client in the Insurance, Financial Services industry.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Lead BA Is Accountable For Business Analysis That Includes

Eliciting requirements.
Selecting the appropriate sections within the Business case / Functional specification templates to document the business requirement.
Ensuring any changes to requirements are communicated effectively to all stakeholders.
Ongoing training and development of team skill and competency to respond to the organisation requirements to ensure the busines analyst capability can deliver in using the available solutions to enable delivery to organisation practices, standards and frameworks to requirements and best practice to deliver projects successful to set objectives; and

Ensuring that all information documented is accurate and signed off by the applicable stakeholders.

Minimum Requirements...

Grade 12

3 Year Diploma IT/Computer Science - advantageous

Business Analysis Qualification

Advanced Business Analysis Diploma/ Certification

Agile Certification

IIBA Membership - advantageous

Job Specification...

To Perform Business Analysis That Includes The Following Activities

Business Analysis Planning:
Conduct Stakeholder Analysis.
Plan Business Analysis Activities.
Plan Business Analysis Communication.
Plan Requirements Management process.
Plan monitor and report on Business Analysis performance.
Enterprise Analysis:
Identify and propose projects that meet strategic needs and goals.
Identify Business need.
Determine solution approach.
Define solution scope.
Assist in developing the Business case.
Elicitation:
Explore, identify, and document stakeholder needs.
Prepare Elicitations.
Conduct Elicitation.
Document Elicitation results.
Confirm Elicitation.
Requirements Analysis:
Progressively elaborate stated requirements to sufficient level of detail that accurately defines the business need within specified scope.
Validate requirements meet the business need.
Verify requirements are of acceptable quality.
Organise requirements.
Help prioritise requirements based on business needs.
Specify and model requirements.
Determine assumptions and constraints.
Verify requirements.
Validate requirements.
Solution Assessment and Validation:
Assess solutions to ensure that strategic goals are met, and requirements are satisfied.
Assess requirements coverage.
Determine Organisational readiness.
Validate solution.
Evaluate Solution to ensure it meets the business requirements.
Requirements Management and Communication:
Recognise that communication takes place throughout all knowledge areas and is important for managing requirements.
Manage the approved solution and requirements’ scope.
Ensure stakeholders have access to business analysis work products.
Prepare and communicate requirements to stakeholders (Project kick off presentation, presentation of BRD/ processes documented as well).
Facilitate enterprise consistency and efficiency by re-using requirements whenever possible.
Manage solution and requirements scope.
Manage requirements traceability.
Maintain requirements for re-use.
Prepare requirements package.
Conduct formal presentation of the business case to stakeholders.
Conduct Functional specification walkthrough to Business and Project stakeholder.
Work effectively and efficiently to achieve outcomes.
Provide the business with regular progress and feedback on the requests that have been logged - feedback needs to be at an understandable level.
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 analysing the information to define the reporting requirements more effectively and guide business where necessary.
Connecting to data sources (aka different data, touch points) 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 models/ data flow diagrams, system analysis if required.

To Deliver Projects and Business Requirements that includes the following activities:

Managing business expectations and prioritising effectively to ensure projects and requirements are delivered within the agreed scope and timelines.
Showing agility and flexibility to handle requirements and handle it as a controlled change management process.

To Partner With Business That Includes The Following Activities

Providing support to the business users in the form of investigating discrepancies.
Communicating with Business Process Owners and Key Users to translate their requirements into business requirements that can be translated into reports.

To lead the Business Analysis team that includes the following activities:

To coach and train the business analysis team in any new analysis methodologies and approaches.
To train the business analysis team on Sparx Enterprise Architecture and monitor adherence.
To act as the first point of escalation prior to escalation to Head: EPMO.

To assist the Head: EPMO on Business analyst capacity constraints and project allocation.

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