Snr Spec: Business Analyst

At Liberty, we employ more than 6,000 people across 7 businesses in 18 African countries. Every day, our employees grow their knowledge by working with diverse groups of people who specialise in a wide range of skills across insurance, asset management, investment, and health products. We continually seek to engage, develop, recognise, and reward the people who make our business great.

Purpose
The Business Analyst will fill the role of being a vital link between the Data Management Information Technology capacity (i.e., FRID) and business objectives by supporting and ensuring the successful completion of analytical, building, testing, and deployment tasks of FRID's software products features. The Analyst will be required to help the team members to map, analyze, and document the technical requirements.

Additionally, the Business Analyst will have a responsibility to coach and train newly onboarded entry-level and junior Business Analysts on the Knowledge Areas defined by the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK).

Responsibilities

1. Gathering user business requirements by meeting with business users.
2. Coordinating and facilitating various project workshops.
3. Creating to-be view (solution design) of the business, system, and data perspectives.
4. Developing Contextual, Conceptual, and Logical views.
5. Preparing source to target mappings for the ETLs.
6. Developing pseudo-code and code for functional requirements.
7. Developing procedures, packages, schedule jobs, once ff extracts.
8. Supporting half-yearly valuations including data checks, business reconciliation, assisting business queries, business report extracts, etc.
9. End-to-end experience with testing framework including strategy planning, environment setups, test planning, verification, validation, scripting, execution, and review.

Additional Responsibilities

1. Requirement Management Lifecycle - analysing, evaluating, and solutioning functional as well as non-functional requirements.
2. Proficiency in handling business, system, and data troubleshooting.
3. Developing strong, sustainable relationships with users & project teams.
4. Leading the quality assurance of all team deliveries.
5. Leading and coordinating internal audits.
6. Assisting senior management teams and coordinating external audits.
7. Analysing and reviewing operating procedures and policies from time to time.

Experience

1. Minimum 3 years Business Analysis experience.
2. Experience in the delivery of large-scale and complex custom development projects.
3. Minimum 3 years Business Process Modelling experience.
4. Consulting background / experience would be an advantage.

Liberty Group Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and the group's Transformation Strategy, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards the achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the organisation.