IM Specialist Business Analyst - Sandton at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• This role is the vital link between IM and business by supporting and ensuring the successful completion of analytical, building, testing and deployment tasks of software product’s features.
• The role will elicit requirements and refine it through an iterative process of planning, defining acceptance criteria, prioritizing, developing and reviewing the results.
• Throughout the iterative planning and analysis of requirements, Business Analysis must constantly ensure that the features requested by the users align with the business goals, especially as the business evolve and change over time.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to strategic alignment by driving value across the portfolio, partnering with business and aligning on business strategies that will drive improved business outcomes.
• Develop and implement a product roadmap of initiatives that is aligned to business strategy. Actively participate in Portfolio Activation.
• Adopt Portfolio Agile New Ways of Work and E2D Framework.
• Participate in transferring and transitioning Portfolios into BAU e.g. create and use of agile boards. Adopt IM tools when managing Portfolio demand e.g. ServiceNow ITBM.
• Identify and contribute to Sasol overall cost saving objectives.
• Provide the interface into IM for Portfolio, Product Suite and Product Owners and ensure that demand is executed as planned.
• Support the Product Owner to define the Product Vision and Roadmap focusing on short, medium and long goal and value to business.
• Gather high-level requirements and slice them down into user stories to fit sprint delivery cycles. Channel all project related demand through Portfolio Product teams using E2D framework.
• Use ServiceNow ITBM to define and manage Portfolio backlog (based on business strategy). Use ServiceNow Agile module to define Epics, user stories, Acceptance Criteria, Backlog (Features/Epics/User stories) for delivery team to collaborate and work on.
• Demo System functionality after each iteration of incremental development to Product Owner. Perform the value assessment for each portfolio demand.
• Work with BA chapter CoP to establish and implement Business Analyst best practices. Provide and ensure Portfolio healthy mix of strategic / growth (projects) and transactional requests:
• Execute the IT aspects of the Product and Portfolio roadmap and align delivery to the Portfolio Strategy and Vision.
• Manage stakeholder relationships.
• Build trusted relationships that will encourage sharing of information to leverage technology and innovation.

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree

Min Experience

• Experience: 6+ relevant years