Senior Specialist Business Analyst

Experience, Skill
and Capability

• Supporting the Portfolio Managers in all research, scoping,
  analysis, and design activities.
  
• To perform business analysis and design activities by assessing
  requirements for the Lending team in Financial services in terms of
  feasibility, impact, and cost, thereby assisting to create and compile accurate
  user stories, derivation of business rules, customer journeys, and MVPs and
  ensure this is well documented.
  
• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize
  backlog to provide technical input into system definition and design activities
  and facilitate the delivery of value-added solutions.
  
• To research / investigate current industry trends and standards in
  terms of technologies deployed/planned to be deployed and how that can
  enhance/optimize systems.
  
• Act as a technical liaison between business and the technical
  teams and ensure the required support from all areas to ensure the delivery of
  quality solutions.
  
• Ensure that projects are delivered according to requirements, and
  specified designs and that the technical and business teams are aligned around
  the same objectives and deliverables.
  
• To ensure that solutions are delivered through the agile delivery
  processes and to support the technical scrum teams with the delivery of
  solutions e.g. facilitation of configuration, testing, and rollout
  coordination.
  
• To research, define, and maintain industry best practices.
  
• To maintain, re-evaluate, optimize or automate existing business
  processes.
  
• To create reports and feedback for executive and line management.
  
• Perform quality assurance across business analysis documentation,
  vendor documentation, proposals, technical designs, test documentation, and
  operational handover documentation.
  
• To partake in all of the key agile ceremonies within the team to
  contribute to the successful delivery.
  

Advantageous
Experience

• 3 Year Degree / Diploma in Information Technology / Business
  Analysis.
  
• 5-8 years of business analysis/systems analysis experience
  preferably in a highly complex development environment.
  
• Agile methodology and experience preferred.
  
• Experience in Financial Services.
  
• Experience in Supply chain preferred Lending experience preferred.
  
• Complex business analysis use cases Group facilitation sessions.
  
• Change control procedures Agile Methodologies Project management
  Business analysis methods Product development.