Duties & Responsibilities
We are seeking a Senior CONTRACT Business Systems Analyst with no less than 5 years of Financial Services experience, ideally coming from Offshore Investments or Asset Management industries.
Someone with Strong SQL and Integration and API experience as well as Testing and Data Analysis.
Job Purpose
As a Senior Business Systems Analyst, you will play a critical role as a problem solver, assisting in defining and enabling business change in an agile environment within the Domain.
Your primary responsibility is to define, design and manage the business requirements which maintain the products in various systems, as well as deliver solutions that are fit for purpose, focusing on efficiencies and delivering business value.
Key outcomes
- Understanding the business needs as they relate to a potential change or transformation.
- Gathering, identifying and documenting business requirements.
- Analyzing business and system requirements and the business implications of user requirements to the business process involved.
- Producing documentation accordingly and proposing improvements where appropriate.
- Assisting with solution design (to ensure requirements are met).
- Engaging the most appropriate business representatives to obtain input and agreement on alternative solutions presented.
- Acting as a consultant to the business on best outcomes for a particular business problem or initiative.
- Facilitating group workshops and meetings.
- Managing the product development process by prioritizing requirements for implementation and overseeing the stages leading up to a release.
- Explaining technical jargon to non-technical/business teams by simplifying requirements so they are easily understood across the whole team.
- Defining the scope of the solution and ensuring understanding of scope by business users are aligned.
- Building relationships with all key stakeholders including business owners, product owners, development teams, trainers, and users.
- Liaising with other project areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
- Business process modeling and improving business processes across various business units, processes, and systems.
- Implementing, testing, and deploying solutions to business problems (includes facilitating and coordinating User Acceptance testing).
- Understanding, documenting, and escalating project risks.
- Rendering support in business transition and helping to establish change (includes transfer of knowledge to users, trainers, and peers).
- Assisting in the continuous development, improvement, and implementation of the analysis framework.
- Mentoring and coaching of other analysts.
- Working in an agile team within the scrum framework.
- Continuously supporting the business environment by maintaining an understanding of enterprise business initiatives and objectives, the various line portfolios, and current trends and developments in the technology field.
Qualifications and Experience
- B.Com. B.Sc. in Information Technology or Informatics (Honors/Masters degrees advantageous).
- Relevant formal qualification in Business Analysis. E.g. Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) or Advanced Diploma in Business Analysis (AdBA).
- Honors degree in business/information technology will be advantageous.
- At least +8 years’ experience in a similar role.
- Experience working on IMS and GPRO advantageous.
- Experience in implementing solutions within ERP systems useful.
- Small, medium, and large project experience.
- SQL knowledge.
- Data management and data analysis experience.
- Experience of working with offshore vendors and with all users of all levels within business.
- System testing experience.
Attributes
- Positive, enthusiastic ‘can do’ attitude.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Self-motivated and resilient.
- Honesty, integrity, and respect.
- Ability to work independently.
Example projects in the space
- Regulatory.
- KYC.
- ASISA requirements including EAC.
- Regulatory Tax reporting.
- CRM.
- Integration.
- Via API.
- SFTP/File Transfers.
- Reporting.
- Strategic.
- New investment options.
- Potential future projects: Transition product to new system.
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