Job Description

Empowering Africas tomorrow, togetherone story at a time.With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary Responsible for working with business functions to identify, investigate and analyse problems faced by business/product owners. Based on this analysis the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution, to fully address the business requirements, needed to optimise the business.Accountability: Project Establishment Initiation Activities

• Develop design principles based on the initial brief and scope provided to guide the project's implementation activities, including the requirements planning stage and the management of change requests.
• Assist and support business operations, with the As Is and To Be process mapping when changes to operational policies, procedures and processes occur.
• Build and maintain relationships with line role players by communicating regularly and working closely with them to elicit business requirements, evaluate and recommend possible business solutions, make assessments and produce feasibility analysis.
• Identify project risks either by consultation with key stakeholders and/or a risk assessment workshop and develop mitigating action plans in agreement with the project Sponsor/Project Owner/Project Manager (PM), thereafter document such risks and actions in the project risk register for ongoing monitoring.
• Assist the Business Analyst Lead with ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is obtained by facilitating a project definition workshop.
• Develop hypotheses to achieve project goals based on the outcomes of the project definition workshop and use these to guide the fact gathering and analysis.
• Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of possible business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented, circulated and signed off by the relevant stakeholders and handed over to the PM for use in defining and designing the project.
• Assist the Business Analyst Lead by providing advice, investigating, estimating and calculating costs, timelines, resources and plans for the composition and approval of the project stage business cases.
• Facilitate workshops in conjunction with the Business Analyst Lead in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project so that the project is suitably defined, designed and implemented.

Accountability: Business Requirements Activities

• Analyse the as is business architectures, to identify any issues, opportunities, etc. This includes the analysis of all existing products & services, the procedures and business rules, the organisation structures, functions, roles & responsibilities, the business processes & procedures, the IT systems functionalities, performance and measurement metrics.
• Investigate and perform a business needs analysis, by interviewing the product or business process owners, to determine business requirements and identify possible alternatives and or solutions to achieve these requirements.
• Perform root cause issues analysis with key stakeholders by either conducting interviews or workshop to further evaluate and identify solutions and/or alternatives to meet the business requirements and document all findings to assist with project definition, design and build.
• Assist the Business Analyst Lead to set up and facilitate workshops with relevant stakeholders to gather, identify and document the project and business owner requirements to be used in the project definition, design and build.
• Investigate options available, best practices, alternatives etc and obtain up to date information in relation to the project requirements / objectives by referring to internal and external parties to ensure the best solution is considered and identified for the project.

Accountability: Solution Analysis and Documentation

• Design the to be business architectures by using the identified design principles and document the ideas by working through increasing levels of design detail (i.e. conceptual/high level/detailed design levels).
• Identify and design new and/or improved business process systems and/or procedures to deliver project goals by ensuring that the best solution is considered and identified for the project.
• Undertake a feasibility and impact analysis of solutions identified (people, process and system infrastructure) with key stakeholders, internal, external and technology staff to further define project requirements for the definition, design and build of the project.
• Identify IT interfaces and IT integration points to ensure integrated functional specifications, by consulting and workshopping with the IT System Analysis teams, Group Strategy, Enterprise Architect, Vendors, etc)
• Develop IT-systems functional, non-functional and service level requirements, Business Requirement Definition documents (BRDs), use cases, etc. based on the evaluations, meetings, assessments and requirements analysis undertaken during the earlier stages of the project analysis stages, for use by the PM and project team to design, build, test and implement the project.
• Develop a functional decomposition of identified requirements through consultation with stakeholders to ensure that the business requirements will be developed and delivered by the project.
• Validate documented solutions in a walk-through workshop with stakeholders and compare the ABSA architectures to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

Accountability: Assessment and Validation of Solutions

• Assist the systems-management function with setting up and undertaking the IT-systems user-acceptance tests by both business users and IT staff to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.

Co-ordinate all user acceptance testing with regard to securing test users, the test location, the relevant access rights and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Absa Group Technology IT methodology.

• Assess the solution/s by bench-marking with Industry and ABSA to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Evaluate the vendors' products/solutions and the integration capability of the products / solutions with ABSA to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

Education and Experience Required

• An appropriate university degree with preference for a BSc, BSc(Eng), BSc (Comp Science) or BCom (Informatics)
• 3 years work experience in the Financial Industry
• 5 years business analysis/business consulting experience
• Lean and/or Six Sigma experience and accreditation

EducationBachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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