This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic team of Business Analysts at our client in the Retail & FMCG space in the Cape!. You will be part of delivering business and technology solutions across the client to some of the most recognised South Africa Retail brands and you’ll do it by working on the best of breed of technologies.
Job Objectives:
- Information Seeking & Analysis
- Leadership, Facilitation & Influencing
- Communication, Building & Maintaining Relationships
- Organising, multitasking & time management
Qualifications
- Degree or Diploma with 3 to 5 years related experience.Business Analysis certification at Practitioner level (ECBA, CCBA), FTI certification or similar
Experience
- Experience working within all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- 3+ years in retail Finance processes and practices
- Good process modelling skills
- Excellent communication, both written and verbal
- Effective relationship management and collaboration skills
- Good business and IT acumen
- Self-starter, with a can-do attitude
- Customer focused
- Analytical thinking
- Results driven
- Good planning and time management skills
- Ability to break down Epics into Features with guidance, in the context of business functions for the product being delivered.
- Perform high-level analysis activities in the Ideation / Discovery phase of projects, or on Features. Identifiy high-level impacts and dependencies etc. at an Expert proficiency level.
- Research, document and prepare business cases. Review and advise on various business cases which will align with the business strategies of the organisation (including feasibility and business benefits).
- Performs detailed analysis activities in the CE cycle at an Expert proficiency level.
- Evaluate technical solutions and business processes against business requirements.
- Facilitate and co-ordinate User Acceptance Testing.
- Analyse and document project risks – recommend risk mitigation strategies
Knowledge and Skills
- Business understanding of the broader retail industry
- SAP experience
- Implement feasible techniques to elicit and analyse business problems and translate them into business requirements.
- Actively participate in the development of the BA practice within the organisation.
- Contribute to improving ways of work for the BA community – commit to coaching (others) and being coached (self).
- Encourages immediate work colleagues to think of themselves as a team.
- Recognises others’ limitations and offers appropriate support, especially during difficult working periods.
- Demonstrates an awareness of own strengths and limitations.
- Keeps own skills and knowledge up to date as needed.
- Shares skills and relevant knowledge with others and provides guidance on how to complete tasks.
- Demonstrates a good understanding of the work of other parts of the organisation in direct contact with own area.
Desired Skills:
- Business analysis
- SDLC
- Finance