Corporate Functions Business Analyst - Cape Town at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

The responsibilities of the Business Analyst are to gather, analyse and prepare documentation such as detailed impact assessments and any functional specification documents required for Astron Energy corporate functions and shared platforms. They will also report on any IT generated demand as well as business generated enhancements required. The Business Analyst is responsible to facilitate reporting standardisation across functional areas by identifying standardisation opportunities and optimising the existing reporting framework.

• The Business Analyst supports the corporate functions domain architect and corporate functions BRM by preparing accurate business requirements and support any required business cases for IT generated projects
• The business analyst supports the domain architect by accurately documenting business reporting and enhancement requirements and by improving reporting standardisation across the different functional areas
• Leads workshops with Business & IT to gather the requirements for IT projects including functional and non-functional
• May lead small to medium projects as required or serve as project resource
• Is responsible to document these requirements and transfer knowledge to project delivery teams
• Generate the Project Scope for Corporate functions & shared platforms IT generated projects
• Support the development of comprehensive requirement specifications that will determine the estimate of cost, time and resources to deploy solutions in conjunction with other IT SME’s
• Highlight / identify gaps in existing functionality and review requirements with stakeholders
• Contribute to business impact analysis reports to assist business partners with appropriate information about new business requirements and alignment to prioritised IT roadmap

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field, or equivalent work experience.
• BA Certification desirable
• SAP Certification desirable, preferably SAP FI and MM

Work Experience: 

• 2-3 years IT BA experience 

Knowledge and skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills for liaising with stakeholders
• Good communication - the ability to liaise with business stakeholders and to influence multiple stakeholder groups to agree on a single set prioritised requirements
• Proven analytical skills – the ability to understand business requirements for enhancements and reports. Experience of analysing and breaking down problems and information
• Proven problem solving skills
• Development background required to provide guidance on technical/development solutions and oversight of vendors delivering such solutions
• Strong customer focus – improve turnaround time on business requirements for enhancements and reports
• Understanding of the SAP environment and related corporate function applications e.g. Concur, PaySpace, interfacing/middleware, virtualisation/BI reporting/Fiori, and cloud technologies

 Key Processes Supported:

This role supports to following critical Head Office processes:

• Finance
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• HR
• Procurement
• Facilities Management
• Legal
• Security