Role-specific knowledge:
The role assists in finding the root causes of business challenges, identifying business opportunities, and making recommendations on how to achieve business goals and stay competitive. Delivery of accurate Business Analysis output and artefacts is fundamental to the successful delivery of IM solutions via projects and normal service delivery. The BA also assists in making data-driven decisions on organisational strategy.
- Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.
- Must be able to perform self-managed work under general direction within a clearly defined accountability framework.
- Work on solutions supporting multiple business areas, integration points, and many affected components.
- Gather and interpret requirements from the business:
- Gather and interpret requirements, drafting Business Requirements and Functional Requirements Definitions and other documents, diagrams, and document artefacts as per requirement.
- Conducting stakeholder engagements and workshop facilitation to derive key Business Requirements
- Analyse and decompose relevant business processes.
- Stakeholder mapping
- Requirements mapping and -tracing.
- Recommend controls by identifying problems, writing improved procedures.
- Performing business analysis and process improvement within assigned solution project
- Identifying alternative solutions and courses of action.
- Define the success criteria for solution testing.
- Accountable for user acceptance testing efforts planning, execution, and monitoring.
- Ability to work closely with Solution Architects and coordinate technical activities.
Duties:
- 5+ years’ demonstrated experience as Business Analyst, preferably in a mining IT environment.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Familiarity with mining and mining concepts, practices, and procedures. Previous experience in mining environments advantageous
- Ability to perform Business Analysis following the 6 knowledge areas defined in BABOK v3, demonstrating past success in employing underlying competencies and techniques.
- Experience in communicating with clients and facilitating workshops.
- Experience in Model-Driven Design and Repository-Based Modelling tools, e.g., ARIS.
- Experience in requirements management tools.
- Business Analysis in an Agile development environment with appropriate tools (MS DevOps).
- Systems analysis skills, process mapping, and requirements elicitation.
- Candidates must be comfortable communicating with technology co-workers to help users understand technology options in a way that is concise and logical.
- A passion for innovation as well as the ability to learn new concepts, products, and technologies.
- Ability to thrive in a constantly changing environment where candidates are empowered to drive positive change at the mines through solutions.
- Ability to work under pressure to deliver high-quality output.
- Ability to align requirements with strategic objectives of the organisation.
- Motivated, and consistently works to the best of their ability to meet deliverables and performance criteria.
- Recording and accounting of effort, and delivery of measurable and quantifiable value to cost.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or an undergraduate qualification in a relevant IT Discipline.
- Relevant IT Qualification or Certificate/Diploma in Business Process Analysis from the industry-recognized training institution e.g., IIBA ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, or PMI-PBA.
Desired Skills:
- Business Analysis
- Mining Systems
- BABOK
- Agile