Business Analyst Job at African Bank in Johannesburg

Job Title: Business Analyst
Job ID #: 1080    
Job Vacancy Type: Permanent
Province: Gauteng    
Contract Duration: N/A
Region: Johannesburg North

Job Description

To understand business requirements, conduct research and analysis and make recommendations and system changes that will improve  process efficiencies and ensure enhancements or develop a new system. Must write own specs, conduct JAD sessions, co-ordinate with testers, developers and business, and ensure testing pre and post deployment

Job Requirements

MINIMUM EDUCATION


    Tertiary Qualification preferably a Degree in Business Informatics or Engineering or Finance or IT


PREFERRED MINIMUM EXPERIENCE


    5 years working experience in Banking systems (Back - end and Front-end) and in writing functional specifications


CRITICAL COMPETENCIES


    Presentation Skills

    Quality Assurance Skills

    Business Acumen

    Attention to detail

    Analytical Skills

    Negotiation Skills

    MS Office

    SQL

    Visio

    UML

    Java

    DB2

    Technical Writing Skills

    Knowledge of database structures (internal)

    Numerical Skills

    Knowledge of African Bank systems:


        Genesis

        Xiriuz

        Exactus

        Tallyman

        Card systems



FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES


    Resilience

    Communication Skills (written & verbal)

    Results & deadline driven


KEY RESULT AREAS

Draft major functional specs


    Establish business requirements of users

    Research system implications and solutions

    Document the requirements and solutions

    Circulate for review, arrange JAD’s and update specification and obtain sign off from stakeholders

    Test solution as developed and sign off results for acceptability before and post implementation


Coordinate spec handovers to development managers/IT Testers


    Arrange specification handover meetings between Business Analysts, Development Managers, Developers and IT Testers to ensure common understanding of business needs

    Monitor and resolve queries raised by Developers and Testers

    Coordinate unresolved queries with Business if not present during handover

    Monitor that specification is updated with any additional requirements

    Ensure that changes are fully tested pre hand over to business


Ad hoc duties


    Follow up on finalisation of outstanding functional specifications

    Provide advice to Trainers on the impact of system and procedural changes

    Coach system Testers in preparing comprehensive test cases

    Provide systems training to the business from time to time

    Provide in house business related training

    Systems Development life cycle

    Business Case Writing

    Marking of assignments

    Analyse and rectify instances where the General Ledger is out of balance

    Sign - off change requests and review implementation plans and test results before deploy

    Investigate and resolve system bugs


How to Apply:

https://careers.peopleclick.eu.com/careerscp/client_africanbank/external/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=1891&localeCode=en-us

Deadline: 18/02/2014