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Job Summary The purpose of the Business Analyst role is to strategize and facilitate effective and competitive business processes by eliciting, analysing, validating, and documenting business organisational and/or operational requirements, providing cost-benefit analysis, suitable alternatives and recommendations. The role conducts market analyses, analysing both product lines and the overall profitability of the business while developing and monitoring data quality metrics, ensuring business data and reporting needs are met. The role also provides technical leadership on the improvement of quality, standards, and processes by ensuring that efficient and cost-effective business solutions and processes are in place to address current to long term business needs/requirements. This role plays an instrumental role across business and delivery teams to ensure that solutions are delivered according to the business requirements considering cost, user and organization benefit. The nature of projects in this role are generally across domains, high profile and complex in nature demanding expert business, process and technology perspectives and recommendations. xc3x82 Role Description: xc3x82xc2xb7Information Seeking and Analysis xc3x82xc2xb7Leadership, Facilitation and Influencing xc3x82xc2xb7Communication, Building and Maintaining Relationships xc3x82xc2xb7Thinking partner and ambassador for the business. xc3x82xc2xb7Organising, multitasking and time Management xc3x82xc2xb7Knowledge and Application Experience: xc3x82xc2xb7 7+ yearsxc3xa2xe2x82xac experience in a Business Analyst role with a strong technical background, proven track record of successful delivery in a BA environment and extensive experience working within all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) xc3x82xc2xb7 Strong IT and process modelling skills xc3x82xc2xb7 Strong understanding of agile development, servers, databases and networking xc3x82xc2xb7 Exposure to SAP and relevant modules (bonus). xc3x82xc2xb7 Good business acumen along with strong business understanding of the broader retail industry (bonus). xc3x82 Key competencies and work ethic: xc3x82xc2xb7 Expert business analysis skills xc3x82xc2xb7 Decisive with strong problem-solving skills xc3x82xc2xb7 Good business acumen and enterprising thinking, able to operate comfortably within business strategy, current trends and developments in the retail industry, whilst identifying and understanding key business and commercial issues impacting on and contributing to the success, profitability or improvement of the organization. xc3x82xc2xb7 Natural leader with the ability to easily establish trust-based relationships; coaching, mentoring and directing others to reach individual and team goals, delivering end-to-end business solutions in a collaborative and professional manner. xc3x82xc2xb7 Efficiently planning, organising and coordinating xc3x82xc2xb7 Ability to work in a high-volume, high-pressured environment and deliver high productivity, organising, prioritising, and reordering workload, implementing change in a fast-moving environment. xc3x82xc2xb7 Strong technical aptitude with a passion and excitement for applying IT systems or tools, new technologies and solutions and its range of possibilities to increase effectiveness within a functional area and derive value for the business. xc3x82xc2xb7 Team player and collaborative partner xc3xa2xe2x82xacxe2x80x9c Builds strong relationships with stakeholders while working collaboratively across work teams and projects. Open, honest and direct, comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback. Thinks and acts independently as well as collaboratively. xc3x82xc2xb7 Customer focused and understands customers and how best to serve them; committed to providing high-quality customer service and ensuring customer needs and expectations are met. xc3x82xc2xb7 Results-driven and quality focused xc3xa2xe2x82xacxe2x80x9c Efficiently executes tasks and priorities, setting stretch goals for self, while remaining focused and working tenaciously towards meeting and exceeding expectations within quality standards. Strong commitment to quality and delivering a thorough approach to work. xc3x82 M ust have experience: xc3xa2xe2x82xacxc2xa2 Business Partnering Experience xc3xa2xe2x82xacxc2xa2 Change Management xc3xa2xe2x82xacxc2xa2 HR Experience in terms of systems xc3x82 Location: Cape Town (hybrid way of work) xc3xa2xe2x82xacxe2x80x9c should this change to a fully onsite role it will be communicated Level: Senior (7+ years experience) Initial contract positionxc3x82 xc3x82IOCORecruiter

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