Senior Business Analyst at Pepkor Payments & Lending

Key Responsibilities: 

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

• Identify the appropriate stakeholders
• Determine the activities required to successfully complete the business analysis
• Track and communicate the progress of work items throughout the SDLC
• Accurately estimate the required business analysis of work items
• For analysis purposes, have a detailed understanding of the source system (including accounting structure, rules and calculations) 

Requirements Elicitation, Management and Collaboration

• Investigate, evaluate, design and propose solutions to address business requirements
• Validate that the stated requirements match the stakeholders’ expectations
• Work with project stakeholders to identify, model, and then document their requirements and business domain details
• Structure the requirements in the agreed format so that it is understandable by all stakeholders
• Ensure the timely analysis and documentation of business requirements for the delivery team
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to help the team work together and to provide a good service
• Communicate the requirements to all stakeholders and obtain stakeholder sign off within the estimate
• Facilitate meetings, give presentations, resolve conflict and negotiate and influence others
• Workshop with a group to capture several independent sources of information relating to the project, gaining consensus where possible
• Capture areas of opposing opinion

Requirements Analysis

• Ensure that requirements are prioritized
• Use a combination of text, matrices, diagrams and formal models to conceptualize the requirements
• Define Assumptions, Constraints and Risks
• Ensure that requirements specifications meet the necessary standard of quality
• Validate that all requirements support the Pepkor Payments and Lending business architecture

Solution Assessment and Validation

• Ensure that the proposed solution meet the stakeholders’ requirements
• Assist the testing team to ensure the solution is validated against the business requirements
• Assess whether the organisation is ready to make effective use of the solution

Enterprise Analysis

• Identify new capabilities required to meet the business need
• Define which new capabilities a project iteration will deliver

Life Cycle Management

• Act as interface with business and the delivery team during the SDLC
• Understands and can describe the basic function of the business’s core system

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience:

• 3-year Tertiary Qualification in a relevant technical/financial/analytical related field of study
• Diploma in Business Analysis from FTI or equivalent
• 6 Years experience in a similar role within a formal business analysis environment