Fixed Term Business Analyst

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

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