Senior Business Analyst at LexisNexis South Africa

About the role: 

• This position is a senior-level position that will work with one or more Business Units, supporting multiple complex assigned projects aimed at delivering solutions and services that meet strategic targets. The role will predominately focus on gathering and analyzing work group data, defining current processes and requirements, researching best practices, and identifying and documenting process improvements and functional specifications.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, define, and document complex requirements and business processes.
• Develop specifications, process flow, and conversion strategies.
• Contribute to the development of new tools, processes, and solutions to meet desired product needs.
• Maintain stakeholder expectations and raise appropriate issues to managers as necessary.
• Develop “trusted advisor” relationship with senior stakeholders through effective communication and efficient, quality execution on projects.
• Gather business requirements and translate them into user stories/functional specifications.
• Identify and document process improvements and functional specifications based on research of best practices and analysis of work group data.
• Perform analysis on existing systems; identifying options for potential solutions and assess for both technical and business suitability.
• Ability to maintain automated test scripts.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. At least 3-5 years of experience in a hybrid Business Role/Product Owner / Business Analyst/ Systems role, preferably focused on internal business systems.
• Able to define, own, and communicate the roadmap
• Prioritise business backlogs with Global Tech and Product Teams and oversee the delivery of enhancements, integrations, and automation features.
• Strong communication skills that allow for effective communication across all levels of the organization.
• Written communication skills including process documentation.
• Business requirements gathering.
• Experience in gathering business requirements and translating them into user stories/functional specifications on complex or large projects.
• Previous experience of working in an agile environment and using recognized development methodology; e.g., Agile, SCRUM, and KANBAN.
• Support data migration, system integration, and change management initiatives.