(1179) Senior Business Analyst - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Develop comprehensive business cases for proposed solutions to the identified business problems and needs.
• Drive business analysis initiatives and lead a team on projects of a high-risk and multi-year nature characterised by an elevated level of solution complexity, from initiation to implementation.
• Develop a partnership role with business owners and interact with clients independently to define future business requirements, identify opportunities for optimisation and develop and propose solutions.
• Lead and present engagements with business customers, taking responsibility for managing the relationship and interface with the customer for the business analysis and optimisation streams.
• Lead the analysis/solution life cycle for initiatives, from problem identification to the management of change requirements and training.
• Engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously and consult with the relevant project managers and stakeholders.
• Provide quality assurance of the work and outputs of other business analysts.
• Provide substantive input to support other disciplines (e.g. systems development, project management and change management).
• Participate in external industry business analysis forums to contribute to developing and furthering the business analysis body of knowledge.
• Improve and standardise work processes during own work and ensure application of standards and methods are applied by the team.
• Support business architects in defining, analysing and developing the business architecture, reference model, framework and implementation roadmaps required to enable the strategy.
• Stay abreast of changes to analytical tools and methodologies and apply these in the course of own work.
• Actively develop own expertise and support and encourage the skills development of other business analysts to build a strong and competent team.
• Engage and influence stakeholders by negotiating timelines, deliverables, priorities and resources.
• Lead and manage a team of business analysts.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree in Economics, Finance, Information Technology or an equivalent qualification;
• relevant Business Analysis diploma/certification; and
• eight years’ business analysis experience.

The following would be an added advantage:

• experience in banking or banking services back-office systems;
• ADONIS experience;
• ISO knowledge; and
• agile and waterfall methodology experience.