Nationality: South African citizen or permanent resident with valid SA ID
Job Title: Business /Systems Analyst
Job Location: Centurion
Industry: Information Technology
Introduction: The System Analyst is a key role in Nexi Payments and is accountable to drive efficiency and operational improvements by defining the business/techincal solution, obtaining system alignment, and optimization of current and future business application functionality. The role is also responsible for analyzing requests or requirements for applications in order to determine the impact on the business, product and solution as a
singular and integrated system.
Requirements:
Experience: 5+ Years minimum of work-related experience and skills
Education: B.Sc. degree in in Computer Science / Engineering, post graduate degree preferable
Specific Skills:
- Payments Systems experience
- Proficient in modeling and UML
- System analysis and design experience
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to focus on underlying problems and find solutions to them
- Extensive business and technological skills and acumen
- A strong understanding of client dynamics and requirements
- A strong understanding of solution design software applications
- SWIFT experience preferable
Key Objectives:
- Analyse and clarify requests or requirements in order to agree the business solution with the end user.
- Define and document User Stories and their related acceptance criteria.
- Create user interface mock-ups and wireframes as part of the requirements specification documentation
- Create UML use cases, activity diagrams and functional specifications from business requirements
- Guide the development effort by conveying the end user’s vision to the software factory.
- Bridging the gap between the end user, business stakeholder and development team.
- Participate in technical design sessions, working with technical resources, to provide insight during solution development
- Create and maintain the product backlog. This includes agreeing the prioritization of items with the end user’s.
- Participates in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
- Participate in technical design sessions, working with technical resources, to provide insight during solution development
- Inspects the product progress at the end of every Sprint and has complete authority to accept or reject work done.
- Demonstrate the system to the end user after each iteration.
- Create user manuals and other training related material.
- Assist in creating test cases when needed.
- Train end users on the applications.
- Assist in system acceptance testing and troubleshooting.
- Act as a user liaison to resolve system issues and write reports according to user or management requests.
- Defining and standardising field level validation rules in keeping with accepted standards, i.e. SWIFT
- Ensure quality assurance of applications.
- Conduct and apply research on global financial market trends in the payments, settlement and securities environment.
Task Experience
? A strong understanding of client dynamics and requirements
? Extensive business and technology skills and acumen
? System analysis and design experience
? Superior written and verbal communications
? Ability to focus on underlying problems and find solutions to them
? A strong understanding of solutions design using software applications
Specific Skills:
? Be proactive
? Self-managed, systematic, organized, effective planning
? Have a strong work ethic
? Communicate efficiently
? Be persistent and dependable
Other: There could be periods where tyou are expected to travel outside the borders South Africa.
The company may include or exclude any task that may be necessary in the interest of the company at its discretion in the spectrum of services and/or duties to be rendered by the
employee.
Desired Skills:
- Business Analysis
- Payments Systems
- Financial Systems
- UML
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years
Desired Qualification Level:
- Diploma
About The Employer:
Formed in South Africa over 20 years ago for specialisation in major financial system infrastructure development, part of global group in the Central Banking space.