Overview
Business Analyst Jobs in Johannesburg, South Africa at FNZ Group
Duties, responsibilities and accountabilities
Analysis, Design and Solution Definition
Quickly understands the business issues and data challenges of the business.
Identifies business process strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement.
Creates, documents, reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solutions.
Develops business, functional and system design specifications for client engagements.
Ability to design and solve problems pro-actively.
Technical Recommendation and Testing.
Assist User Acceptance Testing efforts.
Assists development process in an Agile framework.
Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
Works with business personnel to identify required changes.
Communicates needed changes to Platform team.
Communication
Facilitation of Platform team and business meetings, including JAD and workshops.
Delivers informative, well-organized presentations.
Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
Act as a Change-Agent for project and other initiatives.
Effective Stakeholder Management.
Technical Understanding.
Understands the SDLC including application programming, database and system design, and QA.
Understanding the Application Support function will be beneficial.
Familiar working in an Agile and/or Hybrid Agile team.
Problem Solving
Identifies critical issues with ease.
Able to identify Assumptions and Constraints, as well as Risks and Issues effectively and competently in dealing with them.
Exhibits confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems.
Business Management
Develops relationships with key business personnel that foster close ties.
Communicates effectively with business to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.
Continually seeks opportunities to increase satisfaction and deepen relationships.
Manages expectations effectively.
General
Conduct impact and feasibility assessments according to agreed standards and format and obtain sign off as per desired deliverables.
Deliver business and functional specification documents according to agreed standards and formats.
Improves upon existing approaches by seeking opportunities to creatively transform current practices/processes into fresh alternative solutions.
Prioritizes multiple allocated tasks effectively and contributes to the successful running of a project.
Accurately prepares written business correspondence that is coherent, grammatically correct, effective, professional and engaging.
Ability to communicate clearly and to guard all business relationships in a professional way.
Education, skills and specialist Knowledge required
Degree/Certification in Business Analysis and/orProject Management.
IIBA accreditation is preferred (Min CCBA or CBAP).
PRINCE2, PMP, AGILE, SAFE.
Industry Experience
4-5 years of financial industry experience in an IT systems development role.
2+ years System Analyst experience at initial career stages – highly beneficial.
3+ years Credit or Retail Lending experience – highly beneficial.
Technology
Process methodology using BPMN and Process Flow diagrams.
Understanding of BABOK and TOGAF.
JIRA, Visio, MS Office.
SharePoint.
Personal attributes
Demonstrable evidence of being able to work in a team of competent, respected professionals.
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Title: Business Analyst
Company: FNZ Group
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Category: Business, IT/Tech
