Business Analyst (Data) at Santam Insurance

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Facilitating discovery of business data requirements, and through a structured process, modeling, validating and translating them into refined user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborating in the development of agile feature specifications which are used by developers to craft a technical solution meeting the business requirement
• Maintaining data and process models in the SPARX Enterprise Architect tool, and using these models in SOPs.
• Using SQL to access data sets and determine patterns and data quality issues to stage automated and manual remediation exercises.

Key Outputs

• Work on solutions supporting the Outsourced Business with emphasis on Broker integration points and a large number of affected systems
• Gather and interpret functional and non-functional requirements from the business and compile requirement specifications
• Analyse data requirements and translate these into data models, definitions and rules
• Define and maintain data mappings and transformations
• Participate in the solution design process to ensure that the functional, non-functional and data requirements are addressed in the solution design
• Define the success criteria for solution testing
• Assist with systems testing and training

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Relevant business qualification including some financial studies or appropriate workplace experience
• Relevant qualification or certificate/diploma in Business Analysis from industry recognised training institution
• 5 - 8 years’ experience as Business Analyst
• Experience with data oriented solutions and SQL.

The following experiences would be an advantage:

1. financial systems analysis    
2. Enterprise Architect for data and process modeling
3. BI tools like Qlik
4. 2 - 3 years’ experience in the Short Term Insurance Industry
5. Experience in Model-Driven Design & Repository-Based Modelling tools 

SKILLS

• Querying databases with SQL
• Data Modeling based on Entity Relationship Diagrams or similar
• UML would be a recommendation
• Business Process Modeling/Engineering based on BPMN
• Business writing skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills

KNOWLEDGE

• Financial management
• Business Change Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle (Agile experience would be preferable)