Business Analyst Financial Solutions

Location Cape Town
Discipline: IT & Telecoms
Job type: Contract
Contact name: Erika Reeves

Contact email: erika@networkersint.co.za
Job ref: 33751
Published: about 2 months ago

Business Analyst

Overview

Business Analyst with Accounting for 12 month contract role in Finance Solutions team. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, designing, developing, and launching efficient business, financial, and operations systems in support of core organizational functions and business processes across the Finance Solutions platform.

Responsibilities

  • Consult with business to identify business problems and opportunities

  • Assist with conceptualization, proposal of solution, and business case development

  • Analyze and decompose relevant business processes and understand the impact on business

  • Elicit, analyze, document, and maintain business requirements and functional specifications

  • Administration, planning, and organizing of work to ensure successful and on-time delivery

  • Participate in quality assurance and user acceptance testing

  • Investigate production incidents and change requests to identify solutions and work with the development team to implement solutions

  • Provide support and collaborate with project management, change management, training, design, development, and testing competencies

  • Comply with company policies and procedures, standards, and methodologies

  • Stay current on industry practices and trends in the short-term insurance and digital environments and contribute innovative ideas for the use of technology and improvement of processes

  • Assist with the compilation of monthly statistics and reporting

Qualifications and Experience

  • Degree related to business analysis and information systems e.g. B. Com

  • Relevant Tertiary qualification or certificate/diploma in Business Analysis from an industry recognized training institution

  • 3 - 5 years’ experience as Business Analyst

  • 3 - 5 years’ Finance regulatory and compliance experience advantageous.

  • Experience with working in an agile environment e.g. Scrum, managing product backlogs, and writing user stories

  • Experience in the use of software and process modeling methodologies and tools

  • Experience working with Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) advantageous

  • Experience in workshop facilitation and communication with stakeholders both internal and external and at different levels of the organization

  • Experience in the use of project management techniques and methodology advantageous

  • Experience in the regulatory and compliance environment advantageous

  • Experience in the short-term insurance industry advantageous

Day-to-day

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability

  • Strong customer service orientation and collaborative interpersonal style

  • Thorough knowledge and understanding of business, process, and technology environments

  • Effective communication skills, both written and verbal

  • Effective relationship building skills and ability to liaise with stakeholders at all levels, internal and external

  • High confidence, self-driven individual who can remain calm and focused under pressure. Ability to manage own workload and timelines

  • Facilitation of workshops, decision-making, and actions to enable teams to agree on next steps

  • Ability to effectively deal with conflict situations

  • Ability to be organized while working in a complex, fast-paced, and dynamic environment

  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively

  • Ability to take ownership, lead, and initiate action and drive actions to completion

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment

  • Opportunities for professional development and growth

  • Exposure to cutting-edge technology and industry trends