Business Analyst

 

• Arrange and conduct meetings, workshops and presentations for a variety of audiences, demonstrating consistently high quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills. 
• Analyse alternative solutions and make recommendations. 
• Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods and tools 
• Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes. 
• Perform root cause analysis of problems and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into solution designs and systems specifications. 
• Produce detailed Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off prior to development commencement. 
• Work closely with developers during the technical design and implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects. 
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business staff (including senior managers) at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change. 
• Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release. 
• Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process. 
• Where necessary devise detailed cut over plans to address potential operational impacts at cutover. 

 

Experience we are looking for:

 

• Strong Business Analysis experience 
• Proven track record in producing high-quality Business Requirements Documents, Business Processes Mapping and documentation skills. 
• Experience in reviewing Functional and non-functional Specification Documents produced by peers (Peer Review) to ensure they align with Business Requirements Specification document. 
• Has worked on both large scale and smaller projects and been responsible for defining and designing business solutions. 
• Previous experience with Use Case Scenarios an advantage. 
• An understanding of technology and IT systems. 
• Good project management skill with the ability to plan and schedule own work and work towards tight deadlines. 
• Excellent communication skills — be able to explain complicated processes and concepts to non-experts. 
• MS Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook).