Finance Business Analyst at Ackermans

• We have an exciting opprtunity for a Business Analyst to join our Finance team on a permanent basis. This position will be based at our offices in Kuilsriver and will report directly to the Finance Systems Manager.
• By taking on this opportunity, you will use your Finance knowledge and experience by playing a significant role within the business between the Business, Pepkor IT and other suppliers, by optimizing business processes and system functionality is in order to execute business strategy.
• Not only do we have more than 105 years of success behind us, but we have over 900 stores spread across South Africa and Africa. We are a key part of the Pepkor Group and are extremely proud of our culture, and take pride in the development of our employees as we continue to be a leading value fashion retailer for women with children in their lives by continuously setting the standard for value and affordability.
• If you have a proven track record in a Finance environment with exposure to Financial Systems and Processes exposure along with System support then this is your opportunity to shine.

Qualifications    
Essential:

• BCom Degree

Preferred:

• Bcom Honours
• Bachelor’s degree or National diploma in information technology
• Affiliation to a professional institution for Business Analysis / Project Management would be an advantage but not a necessity.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience    
Knowledge required:

• A working knowledge of business process mapping tools, preferably MS Visio
•  A working knowledge of Finance systems and processes

 Must be highly proficient in the latest versions of MS Office:

• Word at an advanced level
• Excel at an intermediate level
• Understanding of Project Management and Business Analysis methodologies
• Commercial understanding of the retail systems environment
• Implementation of business solutions and Change Management
• Documenting and analysing informational data

Skills required:

• Determine business solutions and assess them for both technical and business compatibility
• Business and functional requirements elicitation
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Strong conflict management
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Presentation of business processes and system solutions to both software developers and the business

Ability to :

• Workshop and facilitate JAD sessions
• Evaluate different business solution options and applying commercial acumen in the decision making process
• Be highly proficient in testing methodology

Experience required:

Essential:

• Proven experience in a Finance environment
• Exposure to Financial Systems and processes
• Business Analyst exposure: system analysis; business process development, including the facilitation of workshops
• Finance System support exposure: maintaining an incident management process; analysing the nature of incidents; liaising with system developers in order to resolve incidents.
• Co-ordination of quality assurance and testing
• Proven experience of processes flowing into journal entries and reporting

Preferred:

• Experience in mobile industry, financial and marketing
• Previous experience as a Business Analyst will be an advantage but not a necessity.
• Thorough grasp of business fundamentals and strategic priorities from a Financial perspective
• Understanding of writing business requirements, system requirements and functional specifications
• Project Management responsibilities
• Exposure to successful technology implementation and process projects
• SAP project experience
• SAP Finance
• Business Analyst/Business Partners/SME’s (Subject Matter Expert)

Key Responsibilities    

• To assess and define change requests received from users in Ackermans in relation to business processes and systems.
• Provide solutions and support for the implementation thereof.
• Effectively manage change requests from business stakeholders
• Translating of business process and systems requirements into specific projects ensuring solutions are commercially acceptable within the strategic framework.
• Provide ongoing support to users on processes, systems and technology activities.
• Provide detailed Business Analysis Documentation
• Provide users with skills & knowledge of process and systems via training sessions and workshops to enhance culture of super users
• Attend off site meetings with relevant stakeholders