
Old Mutual
Job Description
Seeking a Business Analyst with 5+ years relevant experience. Some experience in Finance and Insurance, adept in agile practices. Must excel in business analysis, change and training readiness, testing execution, and implementation. Critical focus on post-go-live embedment. Proven expertise in managing impacts of change, training, user readiness, and implementation in Business-as-Usual settings. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills essential for strategic alignment and successful outcome.
The contract duration is 12 to 15 months subject to renewal depending on Business needs.
- Analyse and triage business requests for changes/enhancements in terms of relevance, importance, and urgency.
- Work with business teams to explore ways of addressing requirements in varied ways.
- Facilitate workshops to extract requirements, with multiple stakeholders of varied backgrounds and levels of seniority, across many countries.
- Coordinate with stakeholders from all countries to achieve a complete set of requirements.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to determine business needs and create written requirements.
- Work with technical teams to establish solution approaches and designs to meet business requirements.
- Document business requirements in the form of detailed specifications, containing various visual and textual elements to communicate the requirement effectively (e.g. annotated process flows; data relationship diagrams; system interaction diagrams; UML diagrams; etc.).
- Create test plans and test scripts to ensure that the functionality being delivered meets the business requirements.
- Ensure requirement validity and traceability.
- Strictly adhere to and enforce governance throughout the requirement lifecycle & implementation process. This includes obtaining, organising, and storing all relevant artifacts and their approvals.
- Test functionality to ensure that it meets the business requirements.
- Facilitate business testing and obtain business approval for changes.
- Actively drive faster adoption, proficiency, and full utilization of changes.
- Design, develop, deliver, and manage key communications on behalf of the Finance COE.
- Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders to assess change impact.
- Identify and analyse risks and prepare risk mitigation plans.
- Identify and manage both anticipated and persistent resistance.
- Evaluate and ensure user readiness.
- Track and report issues regularly.
- Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress.
- Maintain a central stakeholder list and ensure it is kept accurate and up to date.
- Select and deploy fit-for-purpose training methods.
- Conduct effective induction and orientation sessions.
- Critically review training material to ensure quality, before release.
- Search for gaps in training content and materials that need updating.
- Communicate regularly with management, trainers, and team members to ensure that all needs are met.
- Conduct orientation programs and arrange on-the-job training for new hires.
- Resolve any specific problems and tailor training programs as necessary.
Skills
Accountability, Business Requirements, Design Implementation, Results-Oriented
Education
Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT): Business Information Technology
Closing Date
07 August 2024