Senior Specialist: Business Analyst x2 at Vodacom

The Senior Specialist: Business Analysis vacancy is based withinthe Consumer Business IT department.

Role purpose: To ensure that user requirements for the business are documented, developed, and delivered on. Lead and/or mentor a practice of Business Analysis across the delivery portfolio, ensuring the development and maintenance of highly skilled and motivated practice members.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Supports the business unit owner in the formulation of an initiative by determining problems and identifying business needs to ensure that the business needs are aligned to the business strategic and tactical goals.
• To document and manage changes to requirements throughout the project life cycle by capturing requirement attributes and building a traceability matrix.
• Facilitate requirements gathering through interview, requirements workshops, etc.
• Maintain a steady backlog of requirements that are ready to go Program Incremental Planning.
• Support the day-to-day needs of Scrum teams in understanding customer and business requirements
• Identify the risks related to changes in requirements, determine the impact those risks may have on the ability to deliver benefits, and recommends actions to mitigate risks where possible.
• To ensure effective communication and liaison with all stakeholders
• To ensure that deliverables developed meet the business requirements and quality standards.
• To perform business analysis and design activities by assessing requirements in terms of feasibility, impact and cost, thereby assisting to create and compile accurate user requirement documents.
• To ensure that projects are delivered according to requirements, specified designs and that the technical and business teams are aligned around the same objectives and deliverables.

The Ideal Candidate For This Role Will Have

• Matric/Grade 12 or equivalent (essential), and
• 3 Year Degree / equivalent Diploma /equivalent Certificate in Information Technology / Business / Project Management (essential), and
• 5 - 8 Years business analysis / systems analysis experience preferably in a highly
• complex in-house development environment (essential)
• Recognised Business Analysis qualification (FTI, Agile Business Analysis, etc) (essential)
• 1 – 2 years’ experience as Business Analyst in an Agile development environment
• Complex business analysis cases
• Group facilitation sessions
• Change control procedures
• Project management fundamentals
• Technology / Industry trends
• Business analysis methods: Design Thinking, Customer Experience Design, Agile Business Analysis
• Application functionality
• Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
• Working with People
• Learning and Researching
• Planning and Organising
• Presenting and Communicating Information
• Adhering to Principles and Values

Closing date of Applications: 7 February 2021