Senior Business Analyst – Valuations – Sandton (12 month contract) at Paracon

Duties & Responsibilities

• Receive request from business to start new project and conduct stakeholder analysis to clearly define the relevant people required for information gathering           
• Gather supporting information by holding interviews, conducting surveys, running workshops and reviewing existing documents and information
• Draft a full system requirements plan to detail the activities and outputs 
• Execute the requirements plan in alignment with Software Development Lifecycle process to ensure compliance
• Obtain system project classification by presenting the business requirement to the initiation forum 
• Conduct a cost and benefit analysis to assess the feasibility of the requirements  
• Produce a business case study by assessing solution options, considering costing and risks to formulate a recommendation
• Support the business sponsor to develop and present the business case
• Create the business requirements specification document to confirm clarity of business scope
• Create the functional requirements specification document to translate the business requirements into functional requirements
• Present functional requirements specification to all stakeholders to validate the requirements and solution
• Recommend the most effective course of action after evaluating options against decision criteria
• Provide regular feedback and progress to all stakeholders on current projects
• Review the technical design specifications to check that all requirements are included
• Review the test cases to ensure that it covers all scenarios related to the functional requirements
• Assist the development team and testers to perform root cause analysis for any functional defects
• Perform ad hoc functional testing for quality assurance
• Ensure correct utilisation of solution developed by creating user training manuals 
• Assist business by project co-ordination of deliverables for small initiatives
• Proactively or by request identify obstacles to performance relating to process flow and identify opportunities for optimisation
• Assist users in being effective by utilizing the new solution productively   
• Partner with the project manager/lead to contribute to the development of the Senior Business Analysts role and delivery plan (proactively being involved upfront to just confirm the scope of the Senior Business Analyst’s end-to-end role in the project to mitigate any risk of misunderstanding of who will be doing what) to ensure a successful solution delivery output  
• Reduce time spent on projects by elicitation, analysis and optimisation of business requirements
• Contribute to BA COE practice development by presenting courses to the team

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Minimum 8 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Information Technology or Engineering
• Business Analyst Certification from a reputable institution