IT Business Analyst (Broader Africa) at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

• Fulfilling the role of a Business Analyst in the Markets Technology Africa team on the post-trade platform. The BA needs to understand the end to end trade lifecycle, including the settlement processes.

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• Familiarity with vendor management
• Knowledge of integration architecture
• Understanding of the Markets Products and Business environment (Front, Middle and Backoffice processes)
• Strong understanding of the Agile methodology and principles
• A Bachelor’s degree in Financial management and Economics or related discipline is required
• Previous Global Market’s product experience is essential

Are you someone who can: 

• Engage with stakeholders to understand business problems and needs and translate those into detailed business and/or functional requirements that include process, data, and workflow specifications.
• Analyse and understand the end to end flow of the Markets Technology Africa architecture and consider all touchpoints and impacts when analysing new business requirements or changes to existing business requirements.
• Identify and promote optimisation, re-use and standardisation opportunities within Markets Technology Africa
• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve positive outcomes.
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders’ requirements are delivered.
• Engage and collaborate with the vendor on suitable solutions for incidents, production issues or new requirements.
• Assist with query management in a timeous manner.
• Coordinate and participate in the test effort to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional/process specifications.
• Assist the Project Manager (PM) to facilitate relevant workshops to define project scope and other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter.
• Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented.
• Assist the PM or Team Lead by advising, investigating, estimating and calculating costs, timelines, resources and plans approval of the project stage business cases.
• Facilitate workshops in conjunction with the PM in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project.
• Project manage a sub-project or work stream, when required to do so by the PM or Team Lead.
• Assist the PM or Team Lead to generate weekly/monthly or adhoc status reports, using input from project teams for reporting to Project Sponsor.
• Perform root cause analysis with stakeholders, conduct interviews or workshops to further evaluate and identify solutions to meet business requirements.

You will have access to: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are: 

• Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it