Senior Business Analyst

We're seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our team. The successful person will be based in one of the hubs of South Africa (ideally Cape Town or Johannesburg). The position will be for an initial 12 month contract. Experience within the Financial Services industry will be beneficial.

What you'll do:

• Consult to various clients, and their stakeholders, to understand their value chain, structure, functions, and products and/or services.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and acting as a consultant on the projects or applications.
• Challenge the business in their thinking, especially to understand the intent of the business requirement.
• With little supervision, elicit, gather, analyse, document, validate and communicate business requirements (User Stories and Acceptance Criteria)
• Write clear and concise user stories, epics, and features aligned with the INVEST principles to support effective agile development.
• Collaborate with the business to build and maintain a well-prioritized backlog, ensuring delivery teams have a continuous flow of valuable work.
• Conduct in-depth product analysis by developing strong knowledge of the existing product and identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.

Your expertise:

• Experienced with Scrum Principles in an Agile Environment.
• Proven project experience in writing user stories, epics, features, in line with the INVEST principles of agile
• At least 7 years’ experience in Business Analysis across a custom software development environment.
• Exposure to systems analysis would be beneficial.
• Beneficial if you have a technical understanding of development (if you were an ex-developer, even more beneficial).
• At least 3 years’ experience in Agile Projects
• Working knowledge of (OAS) Open API specification 2.0 and 3.0
• Able to read and interpret JSON and XML files
• Able to understand and work using the Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) & Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach for new requirements that require development.

Qualifications:

• Formal qualification such as a B. Com or BSc, diploma or certification (IIBA or similar)

Personal Attributes:

• A proven ability to work across multiple project teams at a given time
• Demonstrated ability of high levels of communication skills – both verbally and written
• Strong problem solving, communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work under pressure towards predetermined/ established business objectives