(1763) Applications Functional Specialist - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

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

• Providing functional support to SARB Application users on assigned modules with the focus on testing, business analysis, system setup and configuration.
• Responsibility for driving analysis initiatives from initiation to implementation on projects of low/medium risk with a cycle of up to 18 months.
• Facilitating workshops independently and consult with business owners and stakeholders in respect of problem definition and the identification of business requirements/needs.
• Reviewing business processes and procedures, analyse business needs and associated data, identify and assess possible solutions, and define the associated requirements.
• Elaborating the scope and feasibility of solutions and develop the supporting business case.
• Managing change requirements and supporting specifications and provide functional specification and manage acceptance testing.
• Investigating problem and propose solutions by interacting with users, developers and other stakeholders.
• Configuring complex business processes and tasks (where appropriate) within a system for improvement.
• Identify and register risks within their application functional streams.
• Providing input into the development of system training manuals, training plans and present training courses in support of new implementation.
• Configuring (functional) the application as per approved business requirements and align with best practice.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• a Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Management/Technology or an equivalent qualification; and
• five to eight years’ experience within a business analysis environment/application support or project environment.

Technical requirements

• Solid knowledge of workflow management environments; 
• Application configuration and functional support;
• Business analysis;
• SDLC;
• UAT and defect management; 
• Incident, problem and change management;
• Process mapping;
• Functional specification development;
• Application integration;
• Data analysis; and
• System documentation.