Business Analyst

National Company is looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join their team.

Minimum Requirements:
Relevant tertiary qualification in ICT with three to five years of experience as a Business Analyst in an IT environment

Must have knowledge of:
Microsoft Office, Flow charting and presentation software
Developing business process specification documents
Programming languages and databases
Project Management techniques: Agile Methodologies

Main Responsibilities:
Meeting with business to discuss and define their requirements
Guiding business on the possible solutions, system limitations, length of development, associated costs and/or any potential risks or implications
Proposing additional functionality to business that they may not have requested but benefits the process/changes
Investigating all current business operational procedures, levels of system access, training requirements, potential problems and input and output requirements.
Act as a liaison between business and the development team.
Hold constant discussions with development team during the project life cycle.
Compiling logical, comprehensive and accurate specification documents that are signed off by business and the developers
Tracking changes for functional and business requirements
Takes project ownership through the project lifecycle
Monitors project milestones, conducts scrum meetings, reports to relevant managers on progress
Knows and understands their systems and business areas well; knows the groups systems and business areas’ capabilities or functionality
Creates generic and reusable solutions that can benefit business, the group, and the development team
Keeps the development team on track in the understanding of the business requirements with no misinterpretations

Subsidiary Responsibilities:
Participates in user acceptance testing and testing of new system functionality
Help the development team in unit testing
Compiling training material for projects
Knowing the development team’s skill set and assigning the relevant resource to the required development
Mentoring the junior developers in the expectations assigned to them

Sought After Characteristics:
Leadership skills
Operates under general or minimum supervision
Performs duties with broad latitude for judgement
Independently performs business process analysis
Reacts to project adjustments promptly and efficiently
Verbalises potential risks early
Understands the importance of a deadline and strives to achieve it at all times
Understands the importance of team work and utilising their team appropriately
Communicates effectively orally and in writing, with all levels of management and development team
Has a keen eye for detail
Conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times
Persuasive and motivating
Time management and organisational skills a must

Salary is negotiable