One of our client in the Financial Sector based in Johannesburg is recruiting for a professional Business Analyst who will understand the business’s requirements, and through a structured process and analytical thinking, document, validate and translate these into functional specifications that are used by developers to craft a technical solution.

Job Description:
• Create Client Requirement Specifications (CRS): Follow a structured process to listen to, understand and document client requirements
• Document Business Requirements Specifications, Business Processes, etc. using a Unified Modelling Language within the methodologies of either Agile or Waterfall approaches
• Design and validate the functional solution, and document these in a Product Requirements Specification (PRS)
• Review the approved CRS and PRS with the development team and validate and verify the solution proposal with the business, hand over to the development team.
• Create test scenarios, test on completion of development, schedule UAT with business.
• Maintain project documentation on a Sharepoint, with version control.
• Ensure all standards and quality of documentation is adhered to, and follow the process of business sign-off at each stage of the life-cycle.
• Ensure the success of each project and / or enhancement.
• Test and validate the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements on completion of the development, thus ensuring that the business requirements are delivered in the implemented solution
• Assist in translating the businesses vision into the design
• Understand the connection of the business model to the systems architecture.
• To create, build, and maintain strong relationships with clients.

Required Qualifications and Experience:
• B. Comm Informatics, UML Expert courses, relevant tertiary qualification.
• More than 3 years as a BA.
• Experience in testing.
• Solid Cross Departmental experience

Technical Competencies:
• Knowledge of ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management).
• Highly proficient in UML Process Design (Solution Architecture, Process Mapping, Entity Diagram mapping).
• Excellent business writing, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Software testing pack design, functional testing;
• Customer Service Orientation, Result Orientation, Negotiation skills;
• Creative, innovative, tenacity, time management;
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced and innovative environment.