Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:
Gather and interpret requirements from key stakeholders/customers in line with business analysis frameworks.
Analyse 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 architecture.
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 satisfaction.
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 problems.
Participate in user acceptance testing and guide users to ensure that the designed solution ultimately meets business requirements.
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 solutions.
Define reporting requirements and integration points on affected components using, amongst others, diagrammatic representations.
Collaborate with various business areas and teams to ensure integration and consistency of solutions across business.
Keep abreast of latest IT trends and practices to optimise service offering and minimise risk.

Experience and Qualifications:
Information Technology or related qualification
Relevant Business Analysis qualification/certification
7+ 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