Business Analyst Specialist

at  Absa Bank Limited

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
The purpose of the Business Analyst role is to facilitate business and cross-competency teams to understand, analyses and document relevant business requirements.
The work of the BA includes process analysis; business process and requirements modelling and analysis. The role works with business stakeholders, Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, Process Engineers, System Analysts, Scrum Masters, Developers. Testers and Project Management to develop and implement business solutions within the Absa product and channel environment.
Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Gathering requirements from business.
• Creating enabling documentation (Business Requirement Definition, User stories and user acceptance criteria. Defining a functional solution in accordance with the organizational needs.
• Tracking the requirements throughout the life cycle of the project.
• Translating requirements into the foundation of the User Acceptance Criteria, and working through to UAT completion and implementation.
• Providing inputs to partners during the project lifecycle (Reviewing Technical Solution Specification prepared by System Analyst and development team).

Plan & Organize

• Prepare for requirements elicitation, conduct elicitation activities, document and confirm elicitation results.

Requirements analysis process:

• Organize and prioritize requirements
• Specify and model requirements using organization’s methodology
• Determine assumptions and constraints
• Verify requirement for correctness and validating that they satisfy the business need
• Assess and validate proposed solutions to determine which solution fits the need.
• Validating that the verified and deployed solution meets the need.
• Work with business leaders in identifying and bringing strategic initiatives from concept to implementation.

Leadership

• Work with project leads in the planning of BA activities that are required to define the solution to a business problem including scope of work, deliverables, determine tasks and interdependencies between tasks and corresponding Business Analysis efforts, quality of the solution, consistency of BA work products and BA performance metrics for multiple projects.
• Plan requirements management in terms of documentation, tracing, prioritizing, creating baseline, change management etc.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis to determine appropriate stakeholders for the project or project phase and analyses stakeholder.
• Prepare a Business Analysis communication plan detailing the items for communication, the recipients, mode of communication and frequency.

Define solution scope:

• Determine organizational readiness effectively to operate the new solution.
• Identify and communicate risk and issues that may require changes to plans and scope.
• Create requirements package
• Communicate with solution team to assure that requirements are correctly understood and implemented

Traceability management requirements:

• Trace requirements (Update and maintain relationships between requirements components)
• Perform impact analysis when changes are requested and supply this information to the change control process
• Facilitate ongoing use of requirements for impact analysis and solution maintenance.
• Facilitate reuse of requirements on related projects to encourage enterprise consistency of business models.
• Identify, document and analyses business risk.
• Provide Implementation support

Minimum and Education requirements:

• Relevant B Degree or equivalent NQF level 7 qualification
• Relevant Business Analyst work experience
• CBAP Certified will be an advantage.
• PASA accreditation will be an advantage.

Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertise

Please refer the Job description for details