Business Analyst (Finance/Accounting) - Bellville at Santam Insurance

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Consult with business to identify business problems and opportunities 
• Assist with conceptualization, proposal of solution and business case development
• Analyse and decompose relevant business processes and understand the impact on business 
• Elicit, analyse, document and maintain business requirements and functional specifications
• Administration, planning and organizing of work to ensure successful and on time delivery
• Ensure that solutions deliver on business expectation
• Participate in quality assurance and user acceptance testing 
• Investigate production incidents and change requests to identify solutions and work with development team to implement solutions
• Provide support and collaborate with project management, change management, training, design, development and testing competencies 
• Comply with company policies and procedures, standards and methodologies
• Stay current on industry practices and trends in the short term insurance and digital environments and contribute innovative ideas for the use of technology and improvement of processes
• Assist with compilation of monthly statistics and reporting  

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Degree related to business analysis and information systems e.g. B. Com
• Relevant Tertiary qualification or certificate/diploma in Business Analysis from an industry recognized training institution
• 3 - 5 years’ experience as Business Analyst e.g. CBAP will be advantageous
• 3 - 5 years’ Finance regulatory and compliance experience advantageous.
• Experience with working in an agile environment e.g. Scrum, managing product backlogs and writing user stories
• Experience in the use of software and process modeling methodologies and tools 
• Experience working with Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) advantageous
• Experience in workshop facilitation and communication with stakeholders both internal and external and at different levels of the organisation
• Experience in the use of project management techniques and methodology advantageous
• Experience in the regulatory and compliance environment advantageous
• Experience in the short-term insurance industry advantageous
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Relating and networking
• Applying expertise and technology
• Achieving personal work goals and objectives