Leading Financial Institution based in Johannesburg are seeking a Business Analyst to join their team

Your experience and skills within the banking or financial space are required to develop design principles based on the initial brief and scope provided to guide the project's implementation activities, including the requirements planning stage and the management of change requests.

Key areas of focus will include:

· Assist and support business operations, with the “As Is? and “To Be? process mapping when changes to operational policies, procedures and processes occur.

· Build and maintain relationships with line role players by communicating regularly and working closely with them to elicit business requirements, evaluate and recommend possible business solutions, make assessments and produce feasibility analysis.

· Identify project risks either by consultation with key stakeholders and/or a risk assessment workshop and develop mitigating action plans in agreement with the project Sponsor/Project Owner/Project Manager (PM), thereafter document such risks and actions in the project risk register for ongoing monitoring.

· Assist the Business Analyst Lead with ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is obtained by facilitating a project definition workshop.

· Develop hypotheses to achieve project goals based on the outcomes of the project definition workshop and use these to guide the fact gathering and analysis.

· Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of possible business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented, circulated and signed off by the relevant stakeholders and handed over to the PM for use in defining and designing the project.

· Assist the Business Analyst Lead by providing advice, investigating, estimating and calculating costs, timelines, resources and plans for the composition and approval of the project stage business cases.

· Facilitate workshops in conjunction with the Business Analyst Lead in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project so that the project is suitably defined, designed and implemented.

Skills and experience required:
An appropriate university degree with preference for a BSc, BSc(Eng), BSc (Computer Science) or BCom (Informatics)

3 years work experience in the Financial Industry

5 years business analysis/business consulting experience

Lean and/or Six Sigma experience and accreditation

Business Planning & Design, including a basic understanding of operations, process and IT in a Blue Chip

Command of business analysis techniques – including the application of industry-standard methodologies, techniques and use of software

Understanding of means of business requirements gathering - including business process re-engineering, input into organisational design, operating models

Knowledge of a Bank?s products, services and policies