Business Analyst

at  Momentum Investments

INTRODUCTION

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.
We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses. Visit us at www.momentummetropolitan.co.za.

REQUIREMENTS

• BCom Informatics, BSC, Information Technology or related degree.
• Relevant Business Analysis qualification/certification.
• 3+ year’s experience in business analysis.
• Proven experience in implementation of large or complex projects.
• Exposure to/experience in the investments/financial industry will be an advantage.
• SQL knowledge a must.
• Experience working in Agile environment.

CONDUCT BUSINESS ANALYSIS IN LINE WITH BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS:

• Gather and interpret requirements from key stakeholders/customers in line with business analysis frameworks.
• Analyse and understand the business requirements and through a structured process document, validate and translate these into requirement specifications and functional specifications to be used by developers in crafting technical solutions.
• Contribute to translating the business goals into design in line with systems architecture.
• Ensure the quality delivery of requirements and business process specifications that meet the agreed deliverables in line with best practices and business process.
• Participate in the solution design process to make recommendations to create and enhance solutions that are innovative, re-usable and sustainable and solve complex business problems.
• Participate in testing and guide users to ensure that the designed solution ultimately meets business requirements.
• Define the success criteria using scenario testing and test cases to ensure that testing covers all aspects of the business specification.
• Test and validate the functionality of all technical solutions in line with business requirements on completion of development to ensure that business requirements are met in the implemented solutions.
• Define reporting requirements and integration points on affected components using, amongst others, diagrammatic representations.
• Keep abreast of latest IT trends and practices to optimise service offering and minimise risk.

ROLE PURPOSE

To perform business and system analysis tasks through specialization in understanding the business usage of Information Technology (IT) and data and helping technology add value to the Momentum Investments Institutional Data Management and Reporting Capability. To transform business requirements (functional & non-functional) into a set of technical software requirements that specify the data solution.