Job Description

Senior Business Analyst: Banking: 1 Year Fixed Term ContractMust have IIBA Endorsed QualificationThe request is for a Senior Business Analyst to apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders to understand the problems, opportunities, needs, structure, policies, and operations of the organization on large, high risk and complex projects.To recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. To elicit and analyze the actual needs of the stakeholders; facilitate communication between organizational units and play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and may serve as a translator between these groups.Your application should include your years of deep practical experience in the role, with repeated practice performing business analysis in a variety of complex situations.Key Performance Areas:

• Conduct adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify, and model requirements and design.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and business design information from inception to retirement solution.
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on the clients delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies, and practices.
• Analyze and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.
• Understand the portfolios strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs, and metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution.
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives, and dependencies across projects.
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypotheses statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
• Own decomposition of portfolio epic, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirement value chain.
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the Process Engineer and Business Architect.
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements.
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization.
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive DevOps and Built-In quality principles.
• Analyze/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs.
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies, and enterprise delivery up to senior level.
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product, and BITE Owners.
• Drive minimum viable thinking continuous deployment and integration.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues.

Requirements:

• Matric, IT Qualification, Certificate in BA, IIBA Endorsed, SaFE Certificate
• BA experience, manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, industry exposure. Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques. Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors.

Technical/Professional Knowledge:Research Methodology l BA Body of Knowledge l Business Writing Skills l Process Engineering Skills l Global business analysis Trend l Business Analysis Discipline, Techniques and Practices l MS Office ProductBehavioral Competencies:Decision Making l Building Partnerships l Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills l Initiating Action l Continuous Improvement l Customer OrientationPlease email me for a skills matrix, communication will only be with shortlisted candidates: (jino.swart@isilumko.co.za): 3823(jino.swart@isilumko.co.za)

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