Jobs at Virgin Active South Africa

Introduction

Your Purpose... To become the key businessperson in the Business Architecture team to document the business requirements, including data structure analysis and company strategic initiatives for IT, to develop, test and deploy software that is fit for the business to use.

Job description

Your Duties and Responsibilities...

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Work with business stakeholders to determine priorities and effective solutions to meet business requirements.
• Performing requirements analysis on behalf of the business.
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts and creating use cases.
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
• Design usable, practical, and scalable solutions to meet business needs
• Leading and conducting workshop sessions with developers, business users, or testers
• Document system solutions of the As-Is and To-Be (e.g.,process flows and functional specifications)
• Understand and document the data structures and flows.
• Support team members in achieving delivery objectives.
• Collaborate with solution architects to define Design and coordinate IT and Business testing
• Maintain the sprint backlogs with the Scrum teams
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

Minimum requirements

We can't live without...

• 7-plus years’ experience as a Senior IT Business Analyst
• Relevant IT or Commerce degree or diploma
• Business Analyst certifications
• Agile/Scrum certifications will be beneficial
• Solid track record in successful delivery (as a Senior Business Analyst) within an agile environment
• Good understanding and experience of the SDLC and data  (more specifically SCRUM)
• Excellent communication, both written, verbal and presentation
• Good business and IT acumen
• Self-starter able to self-manage and drive delivery,
• a can-do attitude, solutions and customer focused
• Ability to work effectively, been flexible by working remotely and in the office

We'd Love you to have...

• Shows strong initiative
• Leadership qualities
• Highly analytical and problem solver
• Strong documentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Detail orientated and accurate
• Negotiation skills
• Conflict management skills
• Relationship building
• A Team player

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Introduction

Your Purpose... To make exercise irresistible. To help us ensure that fixed assets and accounts payable balances are accurate, complete and valid.

Job description

Your Duties and Responsibilities...

• Continually seek process efficiencies to identify, minimize and eliminate “manual” or labour intensive processes;
•  As part of the finance, review and authorise outgoing payments to suppliers, members and staff when required.
• Continually review, design and implement processes within property management and payments, that ensure are adequate controls and systems exist that prevent or detect errors / invalid payments, supported by a seamlessly integrated or automated business and systems end to end process flow;
• Provide monthly commentary on rent variances;
• Prepare the 5YP rent submission plan;
• Ensure that monthly rental payments as per the rental contracts agree to signed or amended lease agreements;
• Continually work with BI team to improve the end user experience and support the needs of business stakeholders through the production of meaningful property reporting;
• Preparation and maintenance of IFRS 16 lease liability and right of use asset calculations;
• Ensure that proper reconciliation of balances due per landlord statements to amounts paid is performed and that all property related unpaid expenses actually incurred are appropriately accrued for where necessary;
• Ensure that rental payments are correctly adjusted on finalization of TI Allowances;
• Review back-dated rates escalations and ensure these are properly calculated and charged;
• Support the national property asset manager with the annual rent and rates budget;
• Support internal business stakeholders and specifically the national property asset manager with the analysis and forecast of property related expenses;

Minimum requirements

We can’t live without…

• Respect for others
• Honesty and accountability
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Initiative and resourcefulness
• Critical and informative interpretation of financial information

We’d love you to…

• Be deadline driven
• To be able to work independently
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills

We’d like you to have…

• BCom, BBSc or similar tertiary qualification
• Experience with business process and information systems design