A leading financial company based in Sandton is looking for a confident and motivated Business Analyst to join their team.

Duties (to name a few):
• Conduct appropriate planning to ensure optimal cost budget for projects
• Contribute to crafting of IT business plan to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of IT strategy
• Partner with the relevant stakeholder to ensure the outputs of a successful solution delivery
• Reduce time spent on projects by elicitation, analysis and optimization of business requirements
• Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets
• Be physically present in a business area to observe and be involved in the day to day operations to understand the business domain and business requirements
• Manage stakeholder relationships by being transparent with regards to project progress
• Receive request from business to start new project and conduct stakeholder analysis to clearly define the relevant people required for information gathering
• Work with business system colleagues to clarify requirements, to plan implementation and to answer queries through the development process

Requirements:
• BSc degree or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years’ experience
• Challenging the status quo
• presentations
• Identifying trends
• Conducting business analysis
• Drafting technical documents and reports
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Evaluating resource allocation
• Networking and building relationships
• Conducting a needs analysis
• Analyzing business operations
• Conducting a needs analysis
• Conducting business analysis
• Conducting root cause analysis
• Determining cost/benefit ratios