Senior Business Analyst: Large Complex Project Experience: 1 Year FTC: Sandton

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POSITION INFO:

Senior Business Analyst: Banking: 1 year FTC

IIIBA Endorsed Certification: AAC, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP

Experience/Skills needed:

• IIIBA Best Practice experience and endorsed qualification
• Project, Process & Product experience
• To apply a set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison amongst stakeholders in order 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.
• As Senior BA you should have 10 Years relevant experience of deep practical experience in the role; with repeated practice performing business analysis in a variety of complex situations.
• Certificate: Program in Business Analysis
• Data Analysis

To enable change by defining the needs and the rationale for change, to understand the current state, to define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current to the future state by applying the principles of business analysis, according to the requirements classification schema, from a diverse array of multifunctional perspectives with an agile mindset.

Key Deliverables:

• Conduct iterative and 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 designs.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
• 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 client’s 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 portfolio's 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.
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements 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 teams 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, Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF), and increment planning and drive DevOps and Built-in quality principles.
• 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 Inspect & Adapt (I&A) and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners.
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment, and integration.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues.

Formal Qualifications Essential Qualifications:

NQF Level • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Preferred Qualification • IT qualification Essential Certifications • Safe Certification or any agile/scrum certification Preferred Certifications • Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA

Experience Minimum Experience Level: 5 - 8 years BA experience, manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, industry exposure. Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.

Technical Competencies: Jira/Confluence Usage • Research methodology • BA Body of Knowledge • Design Thinking • Business writing skills • Agile Concepts • Business analysis • Process Engineering Skills • Business Analysis Discipline, Techniques and Practices • Microsoft Office Product Behavioral Competencies • Decision Making • Building partnerships • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills • Initiating Action • Continuous Improvement • Customer Orientation

Please note Communication will only be with shortlisted candidates: please email me for a skills matrix: jino.