Business Analyst (Senior)

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Discovery Ltd.

Sandton

ZAR 400 000 - 500 000

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6 days ago

Job description

Business Unit: Discovery Employee Benefits

Function: Administration and Office Support

Date: 7 Nov 2024

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Discovery Corporate & Employee Benefits

Business Analyst (Senior)

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Corporate & Employee Benefits

Discovery Corporate and Employee Benefits is the first and only employee benefits provider to shape employee behaviour, creating healthier and wealthier workforces. It is an exciting business to be in as we reimagine the way retirement savings and life insurance are brought to companies and employees.

Key Purpose of the role

The Senior Business Analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. Translating those system requirements into functional specifications that are used by developers to craft a technical solution.

Responsible for also translating the business vision into the design and connecting the business model to the systems architecture. The Senior Business Analyst will be assigned to more complex and high-profile projects. Whilst the activities might closely resemble that of a Business Analyst role, the responsibilities are greater because of the nature of the projects themselves. Ensure High-Level testing is done against the requirements to make sure that the solution is solving the needs addressed and gathered during the analysis phase.

The Senior Business Analyst is a critical liaison between the Project Manager and the Technical teams and is expected to work across multiple business areas and teams to support the Group’s shared value model. Lead, coordinate and oversee the work of other BA’s as it relates to a specific project. Stand-in for the BA Manager if necessary, in an advisory capacity.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

Planning

Participate in high level planning sessions
Lead the BA effort
Create a requirements management plan (where required)
Facilitate the development of a Business Case
Planning and scoping several inter-related initiatives

Information Gathering

Interview Stakeholders
Interview Users
Identifying and addressing operational, financial and technological risks within the business

Requirements Gathering

Facilitate requirements gathering sessions
Document Business Requirements
Walk-through the Business Requirements with the business
Verify Requirements
Finalise and obtain approval of Business Requirements
Develop Requirements traceability
Participate in requirement gathering sessions initiated for Group projects
Review requirement specifications from peers

Functional Requirements

Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with technical team to create functional specifications
Work with the business and technical teams to validate functional specifications
Finalise and obtain approval of Functional Requirement specifications
Maintaining, testing and improving business and systems operations

Design

Translating the business objective
Use Cases and Scenarios
Functional Requirements and features required
Staying close to the design and able to articulate why a particular solution was chosen
Must have knowledge of how the systems work in order to provide advice on how to correct technology

Communication

Assist with User guide documentation (where required)
Publish release notes (where required)
Provide regular updates to PM on BA deliverables
Effective communication with the Technical teams
Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders

Personal Attributes and Skills

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:

Communication Skills: able to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing.
Reporting Skills: ability to consolidate information and compile reports reflecting the necessary relevant information
Ability to communicate logically and objectively is essential components of this role.
Attention to detail
Very organised
Conflict Management
Expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly.
Probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem.
Relates well to people at all levels.

Education and Experience

Qualifications:

Informatics or Other Relevant Degree
Advanced UML course, BPMN Course, PM training or qualification
Certificate in Business Analysis or Advanced Certificate in Business Analysis

Experience:

More than 4 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
Testing experience essential
Business experience & product knowledge advantageous

Technical Skills:

Project Management, SQL queries, Business Writing Skills, Presentation and Facilitation Skills
Solution Architecture, Process Mapping, Entity Diagram mapping
Software testing pack design, functional testing

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.