Job Description

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Matric/National diploma or equivalent qualification
• B.Com Information systems or equivalent
• More than 5 years experience as a Financial Business Analyst
• Clear criminal and ITC record
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development on financial systems
• Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software solutions, systems, or products
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources
• Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategy & Planning

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identify and establish the scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders and the project team to prioritize collected requirements.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Assist in conducting research on software products to meet agreed-upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
• Participate in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.

Operational Management

• Problem-solving and query resolution, following transaction audit trails.
• Work closely with service providers to ensure queries are resolved within agreed-upon service levels.
• Participate in the QA of financial systems to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
• Ensure that the user access profiles are appropriate and maintained, including a documented matrix in support of the security rules and risk.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers and service providers.
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on user requirements.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements xe2x80x93 verbally or through written documentation xe2x80x93 to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Provide guidance and training to staff.

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