Business Analyst - JHB at Mimecast

Business Analyst - Corporate Data Management

• In this role you will be the liaison between the end user and the data engineering teams, it requires both deep technical capabilities along with the ability to be analytical.
• You will work with stakeholders from business units throughout Mimecast and our Analyst team to gather and record user requirements and success criteria for project work, enhancement requirements and bugs.
• You will closely work with the project team to ensure user requirements are understood before and during the development phase.
• You will be responsible for engaging with project managers, architects, system owners and business users to ensure processes are defined, documented and translated into technical requirements in order for the development teams to build and deliver solutions.

You'll need:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – able to liaise with staff at all levels in the organisation
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to create clear requirements and specification documentation
• A good understanding of data systems, system architecture and data warehouses
• Experience of requirements gathering for a data warehouse
• Ability to work with system users to elicit and formally define their requirements
• A good understanding of the agile project management methodology
• Experience of using cloud based applications, for example Salesforce
• Strong ability to extract information by questioning, active listening and interviewing.
• Ability to work on own initiative within agreed boundaries
• Ability to work under pressure and manage conflicting priorities
• Be flexible and adaptable
• Understanding of the Kimball data warehouse lifecycle business requirements methodology
• Understanding of financial and accountancy terminology
• Experience of system testing and creating test scripts

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or relevant working experience generally seen with at least 6+ years of technical, business and management experience.
• Agile certification