Senior Business Analyst I Contract I FX Experience at IQbusiness

Job Description

IQbusiness is a leading management consulting firm.

Our Innovative Analysis Team is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join us on a contracting basis for a specific project opportunity.

Key Responsibilities and/or output areas include, but are not limited to:

• Must have 8 + years of experience as an all-round BA (data, process, systems and business analysis)
• Must have financial services experience as a Business Analyst specifically in Banking.
• Must have experience as a Business Analyst in rebuilding the FX platform
• Must be able to work directly with the trading desk to elicit requirements for the platform and products (swap, future, forwards etc.)
• Must have a good understanding of FX markets and products (swap, future, forwards etc.)
• Must have a good understanding of product mechanism
• Must know how to calculate FX products
• Experience in various project methods and principles (Agile, Waterfall, RUP)
• Ability to transfer requirement documentation into user stories and integrate it into the Agile space.
• Engagement across stakeholders and ability to run information-gathering sessions.
• Gather, interpret, and document requirements (business, functional and technical)
• Participate in the solution design process.
• Participate in (ensuring/enabling) data integrity, quality, and governance.
• Define the success criteria, document test cases, and provide support across the test environments.
• Analyse, deconstruct and map existing and new business processes.
• Align data sources, flows, storage, and reporting.
• Assistance on solution delivery on implementation and training.

Education Qualification:

• Matric
• University Qualification, Certificate or Diploma, aligned to relevant experience - Relevant Bachelors’ Degree / Diploma / recognised qualification from an accredited tertiary institution.

Skills:

• Formal or practical experience in the BABOK
• Multiple process notations
• Business Writing Skills
• Presentation and Facilitation Skills
• Data Modelling based on Entity Diagram Mapping
• Repository-Based Modelling tools i.e., ARIS
• Business Change Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle (Waterfall, Agile, RUP)
• Quality and Risk Management
• ACORD Framework, SOA, TOGAF, ARCHIMATE
• Experience with tools such as Confluence and Jira would be advantageous