Business Analyst: IT & Technology (12 Month Contract), Sandton at Xcede

We’re seeking a Specialist Business Analyst within the IT & Technology department, for a 12 Month Contract, to be based in Sandton. Responsibilities include assessing, analysing, optimising, documenting, implementing and testing end-to-end enterprise business processes of a multi-skilled team. This position requires an experienced person who has a solid understanding of Business Analysis and Enterprise Business Processes.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders throughout the organisation to build a holistic view of the organisation’s strategy, processes, information and information technology assets.
• Links and aligns the business mission; strategy and processes of an organisation to its information technology strategy.
• Documents this strategy by using multiple models or views that show how the current and future needs of an organisation will be met in an efficient; sustainable; agile and adaptable manner.
• Bring business needs, capabilities, technology and process together in an efficient and effective manner.
• Performs business analysis tasks to connect information. technology; processes and business needs in varying levels of detail within an area of specialty; and is able to perform all business analysis tasks at both ends of the detail spectrum.

Candidate Minimum Requirements:

• Must have at least 7-10 years’ experience as a business analyst involved with assessing, mapping and optimizing business processes.
• Must have Experience in facilitating workshops with business users (up to executive level) in order to gather requirements, generate ideas and validate designs.
• Experience within Banking (Enterprise Content Management) would be an advantage.
• Candidates must have working experience on agile projects,
• Understanding of the SAFe framework, and the use of agile tools like Jira and Confluence and process mapping tools like Aris.
• Experience in applying process modelling standards such as, BPMN.
• Knowledge of and exposure to business process transformation, including process enabling and integrating technologies: Business Process Reengineering, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Application Integration, Presentation technologies, Business Intelligence, Analytics and Reporting