Senior Business Analyst at Salt South Africa

We’re a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great!

Reporting to the Product Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• To analyse and understand project scope and core objectives
• Lead requirements elicitation workshops with stakeholders to define high level business requirements
• Assist stakeholders to prioritise the requirements
• Plan and lead workshops with stakeholders and technical resources to elicit detailed, low level functional requirements
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, break down high-level information into their constituent details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs.
• Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with project team to analyse information needs and functional requirements to deliver the following artefacts as needed:
  • Business/functional requirement specification
  • Wireframes
  • Workflow / process flow diagrams
  • Data Model/s
• Obtain sign-off on the specifications
• Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending daily team meetings and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
• Setting timelines, driving project schedules and leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
• Be the liaison between the business and the engineering team.
• Project manage the implementation of selected project initiatives.
• Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.
• Performing user acceptance testing.

 Attributes Required:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high quality, innovative, clean solutions
• Ability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with an appetite to learn by doing
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

 Qualifications & Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or similar degree.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Experience defining solutions for financial / accounting systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical individuals.

The Environment:

• Our employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, collaborate to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas about how we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is forthright but respectful
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strives to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives with change, accepts change is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• thinks about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• is curious and challenges the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING