The Business Analyst will need to understand business change needs, assessing the business impact of those changes, capturing, analysing and documenting requirements, supporting the communication abd delivery of requirements with relevant stakeholders.
The successful candidate’s responsibilities will be to:
- Develop business case(s) for Ithala.
- Identify and understand the business problem and the impact of the proposed solution on operations of the organisation.
- Create a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for business.
- Lead organisation’s initiatives to map and codify all relevant IT business processes.
- Periodically review IT business processes to ensure their suitability.
- Improve data quality and efficiency of data systems.
- Determine business requirements and translate these into technical specification.
- Attend necessary forums to maintain awareness of current and future business requirements.
- Ensure that project plans are inclusive of system Implementation phase.
- Co-ordinate, test, maintain and monitor system implementations.
- Provide and approve training material for existing and new systems.
- Provide references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation.
- Make recommendations on business process improvements.
- Identify patterns and re-usable processes and systems.
Understand and communicate the financial impact of any IT changes.
The following minimum requirements should be met in order to be considered:
- Qualifications:
- National Diploma in Information Technology.
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Bachelor’s Degree in IT/Computer Science will be advantageous.
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Experience:
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in Business Analysis and System Development.
Requisite Functional Competencies:
- Thorough knowledge of information systems I, II and III (incorporating database analysis,
implementation, and management). - Experience using Microsoft Office and MS Visio.
- Understanding of project management.
- Understanding of IT best practices, business practices and principles.
- Knowledge of operating systems such as Microsoft, Unix, Linux and AIX.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Facilitation skills.
- Ability to write business cases and specifications.
- Negotiation skills.
- Must be a team player, visionary and pay attention to detai
Desired Skills:
- See above spec