Job Description

Our client, a leading IT Consulting Company is looking for a Business Analyst who comes from a software development to BI/ SQL development background. The client only uses cutting-edge technologies to build and maintain many products.Key responsibilities:

• Creating and maintaining the strategic partnership between Business needs and Technology delivery
• Responsible for developing business requirements and related business rules based on Business Group needs
• Work closely with the Business IT in the definition, testing, training, implementation, and support of functional requirements
• Identify requirements via industry standard analysis techniques such as data flow modeling, workflow analysis, and functional decomposition analysis
• The Analyst will solicit requirements through interviews, workshops, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures
• The Analysis and Solution Definition
• Quickly understand the business issues and data challenges of client's organization and industry
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Identify client organization's strengths and weaknesses and suggest areas of improvement
• Gather, prepare, review and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution
• Develop functional specifications and system design specifications for client engagements

Technical Understanding:

• Possesses a good understanding of databases and SQL
• Coordinate testing efforts
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
• Work with client personnel to identify required changes
• Communicate needed changes to development team

Client Management:

• Develop relationships with client personnel that foster client ties
• Manage client expectations effectively

Project Execution:

• Assist in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules
• Ability to manage multiple projects
• Take input from supervisor and appropriately and accurately applies comments/feedback
• Communicate and apply project standards
• Manage resources in accordance with project schedule
• Consistently deliver high-quality services to their clients
• Must be able to produce strong, quality documentation

Qualifications and Experience:

• IT Degree/Diploma or equivalent qualification
• 4+ years plus business analysis experience
• MSSQL Experience
• Previous developer or database administrator experience will be an advantage
• Strong facilitation skills
• Must be able to elicit requirements from various personalities across the organization
• Experience with working to deadlines and the ability to work under pressure
• Knowledge of standard IT practices related to business application development/implementation
• Process driven analysis skills
• Proficiency with the SDLC processes

Attributes/Skills Required/Sought:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Must be able to communicate effectively and confidently with users, team members and management
• Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written
• Problem solving skills
• Suggest areas for improvement in internal processes along with the possible solutions
• Must be able to work within a team dynamic, as well as on own
• Adhere to and enforce department standards, policies, procedures and industry best practices

If you possess the skills and experience required for this role, we invite you to apply and become an integral part of an innovative team.If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly. For more IT jobs, please visit . If you wish to send your CV per email forward your CV to and copy the reference number in brackets in the subject line of your e-mail.If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any further possible positions.For more information please contact:Charlene Lombard

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