Senior Functional Analyst (POS) - (PERMANENT)

Role Purpose

The purpose of this role is to ensure that efficient and cost-effective business solutions and processes are in place to address business needs/requirements. The role facilitates effective and competitive business processes by eliciting, analysing, validating and documenting business organisational and/or operational requirements. This role plays an instrumental role in the delivery teams to ensure that solutions are delivered according to the business requirements. The Senior Functional Analyst works closely with a cross-functional team and supports system designers with co-creating sustainable and innovative solutions. Specialised knowledge of systems analysis, and the creation and testing of medium to high complexity applications, will be a key success factor in providing relevant technical solutions and practical configuration execution.

Role Description

• Review technical solutions and business processes and undertake systems analysis and participate in system design, planning and fit-for-purpose specification documentation for medium to high complexity solutions including participation in the solution assessment and validation of medium to high complexity solutions to business requirements and processes using appropriate tools. Specify testing, training, definition, and implementation of standardised procedures for support of practical business solutions.
• Perform detailed gap analysis to determine and understand complex functional business requirements and changes as defined by the Business Analysts, Product Owners and other stakeholders. Identify problem areas, measure various areas of performance, propose changes and develop process improvement initiatives.
• Perform systems integration of medium to high complexity and provide specialised support to the systems designer in the identification of data conversion and reporting requirements.
• Work collaboratively within and across functions, building and maintain a trust relationship with business and IT stakeholders by delivering what was promised and providing technical and specialist knowledge and support to the team as well as system users.
• Estimate, schedule, prioritise and deliver on business-critical projects. This includes accurate and justifiable effort estimations for completion of work, identifying business and functional dependencies to effectively prioritise and schedule delivery of assigned work packages and providing accurate and concise feedback to team leads, highlighting task status, issues, and risks.
• Analyse test requirements and test scenarios. Prepare test scripts and execute testing the configured scenarios. Additionally, troubleshoot system related issues and channel transactional data. Facilitate and coordinate User Acceptance Testing. Ensure detailed, accurate and auditable test documentation is maintained according to required IT standards. Provide i
  
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