Finance Systems Business Analyst - Kuilsriver, Cape Town at Ackermans

• If you have a proven track record in a Finance environment with exposure to Financial Systems, projects and processes along with system support, then this is your opportunity to support our Commercial business initiatives and to shine.

Qualifications    
Essential:

• BCom Degree

Preferred:

• Project Management Diploma/Certificate

Knowledge, Skills and Experience    
Knowledge required:

• Waterfall and Agile working methodologies and principles.
• Working knowledge of implementing and maintaining systems/services/applications.
• Knowledge of PMBOK and BABOK management principles
• Ability to compile quantitative and or qualitative information/reporting
• MS Suite Intermediate - Advanced user
• System integration (environment/area specific)
• Knowledge of Personal Data Protection – POPIA

Working knowledge of:

• Cloud based (SaaS) software applications that can enable services.
• Hardware and Software lifecycle management
• SDLC
• Change Control governance principles and Defect management.
• Fit for purpose system integration in an ERP- and non-ERP environment.
• Utilising various modelling techniques
• UI / UX
• Process Mapping tools (Draw.io, etc)

Skills required:

• Planning
• Analytical
• Critical thinking
• Multi project/activity management
• Prioritisation of projects/activity/resources
• Requirement’s elicitation
• Risk management
• Facilitation
• Communication

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± 5 years’ experience in Apparel Retail (Business area specific / Systems), with exposure to:
• Business process exposure/understanding (Area specific)
• Process optimizing/improvement
• Elicitation and documenting BRS/BRD
• IT and 3rd party collaboration
• Setup, Management and execution of testing

Project Management

• Training/Change management
• Systems/Business support for BAU
• System Architecture understanding (area specific – integration environment/technical competency)
• Unified Modeling Language (UML – High-level context diagram, Product Breakdown Structure, System Architecture diagram, Flow Chart, Business Workflow diagram, Business Process Model and Notation, Use Case diagram, Use Case Narrative)
• Basic Oracle / Structured Query Language (SQL) – area specific

Preferred:

• Experience in commercial and financial industry
• Exposure to successful technology implementation and process projects
• Business Analyst/Business Partners/SME’s (Subject Matter Expert)
• SAP finance exposure

Key Responsibilities    

• Collaborate and interact with functional business areas to gather requirements
• Facilitate workshops between multiple stakeholders to gather information
• Project manage Stategic projects
• Continuous communication with stakeholders to either keep them updated on project progress or to highlight risk or follow-up on outstanding items
• Write user-stories or business requirement specifications
• Manage the critical path and timelines of deliverables
• Compile test packs where needed and support it with testing
• Manage pilots, roll-outs, and training of projects

Closing Date    
2023/07/18