Senior Business and Systems Analyst

FUNCTION:
• Lead requirements-gathering sessions and workshops, brainstorming sessions and
status meetings with business stakeholders
• Interact with technical team members such as solution architects, developers and system
analysts
• Work with the Experience Design and design team on requirements for new customer journeys,
giving input on business requirements.
• Interface with offshore development teams in different time zones
• Work with external partners regarding data integration efforts
• Communicate relevant information regarding project impacts to business stakeholders
• Provide mentorship regarding best practices for documentation, story structure, and analysis
processes for other Analysts
• Interact with business stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Document business requirements in the form of BRDs, use cases, user stories and business
rules
• Create as-built specifications for consumption by business and operations stakeholders
• Create educational and reference content for internal departments and functions
• Create specifications for technical system functionality
• Document business requirements for data integration purposes
• Complete documentation for “Definition of Done” under the business analyst tasks
• Lead agile ceremonies as part of the SDLC
• Produce estimates for proposed work to inform enhancement costs
• Perform risk analysis on proposed development initiatives
• Identify and drive process or other solutions to improve business results, product
performance and client satisfaction
• Employ critical thinking and problem-solving skills during analysis to inform creative
solutions
• Understand mobile interface and application technologies for iOS and Android

• Understand data exchange formats (XML, CSV) and protocols (FTP, HTTP)
• Understand browser-based technologies, e.g., HTML, HTML forms, CSS and JavaScript
• Understand UML Process Design and data modelling techniques.

REQUIREMENTS AND CONTRIBUTION:
• On time delivery with rigorous attention to detail is a must
• Manage multiple concurrent tasks and projects
• Be optimistic, outgoing, confident, curious and self-driven
• Gathers requirements from business on big and small projects
• Drafts and gets peer buy-in for functional requirements specifications
• Reviews unit testing pack
• Facilitates UAT and JAD session for implementation and roll out.
• Oversees and reviews post implementation testing, support and maintenance
• Produce an accurate Business Requirements document with approval from all stakeholders
• Accurately document functional requirements specifications clearly defining project objectives
• If required, revert back to client or other stakeholders if technical issues require business
decisions in order to proceed. Answer queries from the development team on business or
functional aspects of the required solution.
• Defends the client business requirements.
• Identifies and design a set of test cases/scripts, test scenario''s and test data sets to accompany
the BRD.
• Validates the BRD and Test Basket with the client and identified stakeholders and obtain sign-off.
• Presentations and walk-through discussion. Obtain sign-off on documents
• Perform project estimation for BA tasks
• Make recommendations for requirements approaches
• Present to senior stakeholders and team

ABOUT THE CLIENT:

Our client is a evolving Financial Services conglomerate with market leading FinTech solutions in South Africa, The United States of America and Europe.

ABOUT US:

Deka Minas is the world''''s first subscription based professional services company. Our main lines of business are Human Capital Advisory and Recruitment Services in Sub-Saharan Arica, The Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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