Business Analyst (Intermediate) - Health Systems

at  Discovery Ltd

Business Unit: Discovery Health
Function: Business Analysis
Date: 9 May 2024
Discovery Health Systems (DHS)
Business Analyst (Intermediate)
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Discovery Health Systems (DHS) – Health Benefit Solutions
Working in a high-performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward. An intermediate business analyst position is available in the Health Benefits Solutions team to work on dynamic new projects and product enhancements in order to improve business inefficiencies, gain competitive advantage on our products and ultimately to provide better service to our clients. Using knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications, the intermediate business analyst will help the business to address changes through technology.
Key Purpose
Within the Health Benefit Solutions area, the Business Analyst must work to understand the overall business need, define the requirements, document the requirements using various approaches such as use cases then decompose the requirements to a sufficient level of detail allowing the implementation team to take action.
The Business Analyst will support the project throughout the project lifecycle and will manage the release as well as post release monitoring.
The Business Analyst in the Benefit Solutions area must be technically minded and be able to understand basic development principles.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

The successful candidate will be required to perform but not limited to the following key outputs in respect of the Health Benefit Solutions – DCS portfolio:

• Run a requirements gathering/JAD workshop to gather new requirements
• Document business requirement specifications under supervision of a Senior BA
• Accurately document functional requirements specifications clearly defining project objectives
• Construct complex process models and can create UML models
• Execute user acceptance or system testing
• Resolve requirements conflict through effective stakeholder engagement
• Present options and recommendations to stakeholders
• Offer support and guidance to junior business analysts
• Identify and document project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
• Identify and perform process improvement work
• Perform quality assurance of business analysis deliverables

Please refer the Job description for details