Business Analyst at Gijima

Job description

If you are a Mid-Senior level Business Analyst with a Minimum of 4 years Business Analysis experience and are looking for room for growth, Gijima are currently in the market for 8 x generalist Business Analysts and 3 x BI Business Analysts to be appointed on a 1-3 year contract.

• Specific to BI Business Analyst
• At least 2 years’ experience using Unified Modelling Language (UML) modelling
• Business and management principles involved in strategic planning
• Principles and processes for providing customer and personal services, including needs assessment, meeting quality standards for ser vices, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
• Monitoring and evaluation methods, tools and techniques
• Previous involvement in developing a BI system (would be beneficial)

Job Responsibilities and Roles

• Liaise with the business to arrange workshops, interviews, meetings and for the collection and distribution of the strategic business documents.
• Analyse various departmental business documents for input into the ICT Plans (Master Systems Plan), business requirements specification documents, functional requirements documents and project documents.
• Document ICT Plans, Business Requirement Specifications, functional requirements and project documents for various initiatives and solutions.
• Conduct interviews with key role-players within the various departments to further understand their business processes, needs and challenges.
• Develop business process models as required per project.
• Ensure effective communication with the business i.e. making sure the business understands what is required from them for the success of the project.
• Conduct feasibility studies.
• Prepare business cases and conduct business and IT risk assessments.
• Conduct solution assessments and validation and provide report based on findings and recommendations.
• Conduct presentations of the deliverables to the relevant stakeholders.
• Be a strategic thinker at business and IT level
• Be able to conduct analysis of strategic documentation
• Reviewing / documenting Business Requirements Specification (BRS)
• Conduct business process modelling (using BPMN Notation)
• Conduct business case development
• Conduct functional designs
• Compile test plans and do systems testing
• Possess problem solving and analytical skills
• Have excellent communication (verbal and written) skills
• User liaison and good inter-personal skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Sound organizing and planning skills (Time management / project management)

Knowledge of project management principles