Business Consultant at Bravura Solutions

Position Purpose

The Business Consultant is a core member of a layered, multi-disciplinary team responsible for designing, developing, testing and implementing a business solution. The Business Consultant’s responsibility will be to support a client’s product proposition and operating model throughout the implementation of the Sonata software package within Wealth Management clients.

Main Activities

• Business process; collaborate with client staff to define how an in-scope business process will be fulfilled through the alignment of people, process and technology;
• Requirements; document what the technology platform needs to achieve to support the client’s operating model, organisation structure and ways of working;
• Solutioning; identify how the client’s technology requirements can be best supported within the Sonata platform through configuration or new development;
• Configuration; participate in the configuration of the Sonata application;
• Test criteria; develop the criteria that engineering staff will use to ensure that any development work has been successfully completed;
• Test support; analyse incidents arising from user test to determine whether the Sonata application is working as expected;
• Work administration; plan and account for all implementation effort expended.
• Stakeholder management; build and maintain stakeholder relationships

Key skills

• Strong analytical skills including knowledge of UML or other structured analysis method
• Organised with the ability to plan and achieve outcomes
• Clear communication style, whether written or oral, effective in presentations
• Thorough knowledge of technology and the opportunities afforded by digital working methods
• Consultative and an effective influencer
• Ability to apply analytical skill and conceptual thinking to operations and system planning
• Ability to collaborate with clients
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation skills
• Resilience including the ability to work effectively under time pressure
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Proactive approach to work
• Proven eagerness for continual personal development
• Commercial awareness
• Capable of working on-site at client offices

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 3 years of experience of working within successful technology implementation programmes in a consulting/client facing capacity 
• Experience of multiple, end-end implementations of large financial applications Financial Services background essential
• Wealth Management experience preferable 
• Experience of South African retail savings and investment products preferred