Business Analyst I | Retail IT | Bootcamp at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Overview
We are seeking dynamic individuals with critical thinking and a data orientated mind-set to join Retail IT. The role encompasses elements of business, systems, and data analysis within the context of a cross-functional software delivery team and in support of the overall business objectives and strategy.

The Environment
The problems you will be solving will challenge you, and the people you will be working with will support you while you GROW! Our environment encourages collaboration, and you will have access to Senior Analysts who will guide your development.
The environment can be complex with high profile projects underway, and we need Business Analysts with a technical mindset and a love for the innerworkings of the business and its complexities.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyse and solve business problems using technology
• Gather requirements and help formulate solutions in collaboration with business and the product owner using relevant frameworks
• Identify and prioritise the key items of work in collaboration with the product owner
• Analyse specific business problems and determine solutions
• Challenge current processes and thinking, and solve problems using first principles
• Push back and challenge business in a constructive manner
• Analyse integration and system requirements
• Understand impact and dependencies on other IT teams/systems
• Get buy-in from and communicate with stakeholders
• Formulate required specs, diagrams and documentation for business and technical integration requirements
• Work with the developers to ensure the understanding of the business and technical integration requirements
• Work with testers and business to ensure that test coverage is complete
• Create test scenarios
• Be the go-to for information on requirements and implementation on the floor
• Work with business stakeholders to provide any support for change management needed because of functionality release by the team
• Guide the thinking and direction for certain business problems
• Work and liaise with other IT teams to ensure that solutions are robust from an end-to-end integration perspective

Broader role within the area

• Support the overall wellbeing of our IT systems and help translate the knowledge gained by our team to knowledge that can be shared across the floor.
• Reduce legacy
• Improve efficiency
• Promote reuse of analysis and tech
• Improve team process
• Drive quality
• Drive knowledge share
• Be the liaison between business and IT.
• Help with UAT – creating test cases, facilitation, and managing and analysing change requests

Competencies

• Keen interest in technology, data, databases, UX and integration
• Some business/systems analysis experience, including evidence of projects which you ran with or contributed to
• Aptitude for basic technical skills/concepts
• Strong logical reasoning
• Ability to engage confidently with stakeholders at any level

Education

• Honours Degree in Information Systems with an aggregate of 70% or higher

Closing Date

• 9th September