Senior Business Analyst

Job Description

Requirements

• Honours degree in Economics, Finance, Information Technology or equivalent qualification.
• Relevant Business Analysis diploma/certification.
• Eight years' business analysis experience.
• Business Process Reengineering certification advantageous.
• Experience in banking or banking services back-office systems advantageous.
• ADONIS experience advantageous.
• ISO knowledge advantageous.
• Agile and waterfall methodology experience advantageous.
• Knowledge in: IT governance, risk and compliance; quality assurance; continuous improvement; business transformation and optimisation; elicitation techniques; business analysis practices, methodology and tools; benefits realisation and testing practices.
• Skills: drive for results; strategic thinking; manage complexity and ambiguity; lead change; plan and organise; develop and grow others; build and maintain relationships.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive business cases for proposed solutions to the identified business problems and needs.
• Drive business analysis initiatives and lead a team on projects of a high-risk and multi-year nature characterised by an elevated level of solution complexity, from initiation to implementation.
• Develop a partnership role with business owners and interact with clients independently to define future business requirements, identify opportunities for optimisation and develop and propose solutions.
• Lead and present engagements with business customers, taking responsibility for managing the relationship and interface with the customer for the business analysis and optimisation streams.
• Lead the analysis/solution life cycle for initiatives, from problem identification to the management of change requirements and training.
• Engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously and consult with the relevant project managers and stakeholders.
• Provide quality assurance of the work and outputs of other business analysts.
• Provide substantive input to support other disciplines (e.g. systems development, project management and change management)
• Participate in external industry business analysis forums.
• Improve and standardise work processes and ensure application of standards and methods are applied by the team.
• Support business architects in defining, analysing and developing the business architecture, reference model, framework and implementation roadmaps.
• Stay abreast of changes to analytical tools and methodologies.
• Actively develop own expertise and support the skills development of other business analysts.
• Engage and influence stakeholders by negotiating timelines, deliverables, priorities and resources.
• Lead and manage a team of business analysts.