Systems Analyst - Sandton, South Africa - Discovery Ltd.

Discovery Ltd.

Verified Company

Sandton, South Africa

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Business Unit:
Discovery Central Services
Function:Business Analysis
Date:16 Feb 2024
About Discovery

Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fastpaced and dynamic environment enables smart, selfdriven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Vitality Global
Vitality Global, a subsidiary of Discovery Limited is responsible for the expansion of the Vitality Shared-Value Insurance business model beyond South Africa and the UK, serving to fully leverage the assets and intellectual property of Discovery beyond its primary markets. The business forms equity or contractual partnerships with leading global insurers to integrate Vitality and shared value with partner's insurance and financial services products in the markets where they operate. Vitality Global also operates a business providing wellness solutions to employer groups in the United States. Vitality Health International, a business unit within Vitality Global coordinates and focuses on resource allocation to Discovery's emerging, global health insurance initiatives. Vitality Global is also responsible for Discovery's 25 percent equity investment in Ping An Health, the largest comprehensive medical insurer in China. Taken together, Vitality's businesses jointly reach more than 30 million lives across 40 markets; delivered through partnerships with leading insurers in every continent around the world.
Job Purpose
Understand the business requirements, and through a structured process, document, validate and translate it into functional specifications that are used by developers to develop a technical solution. Test and validate the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements. Ensure that the business requirements are delivered in the implemented solution. Interface between the business customer and the development team with regards to the business, nonfunctional and functional requirements.

Key Outputs may include but are not limited to:

Analysis, Documentation & Design Skills

Business and technical requirements gathering and analysis thereof, and ensuring requirements and expectations are met, and that all possible scenarios are covered.
Formulation of analysis documentation, Functional Specifications, Interface Specifications, and prototypes in accordance with industry standards and team best practices.
Perform analysis on system interfaces and create corresponding interface specifications.
Introduction of Business Process improvements, and formulation of Process Diagrams.
Provide support to business in implementing effective and efficient solutions.
Implement, configure, and test feasible solutions, and evaluate alternative workflow solutions.
Analyze, model, and interpret data using different tools and techniques.
Pursue enquiries with clients to understand the 'why' rather than the 'what' of the business request.
Challenge the business in their thinking, and develop alternative proposals, to ensure that the intent of the business requirement is met.
Ensure the solution architecture is aligned with the business and functional requirements.

Facilitation Skills

Conduct Functional Specification walkthroughs with developers.
Facilitate clientwalkthrough JAD sessions, and signoff of Functional Specifications with business owners to ensure Business Requirements have been met.

Technical Skills

Good understanding of UML, specifically:
Use Case Diagrams & Narratives
Sequence Diagrams
Activity Diagrams
Entity Relationship Diagrams

Project & Management Skills

Plan delivery with the Development Manager and Scrum Master.
Coordinate activities within the development team, and with other departments.
Engage with external 3rdparties (e.g. device manufacturers, product vendors) and internal teams for the delivery of projects, as well as for regular touchbases.
Formulate Work Breakdown Structures (including sizing) for projects and Change Requests.
Drive projects from ideation to completion and ensure successful delivery of these projects.
Provide regular feedback to Manager with regards to QC's and Unit testing progress.
Monitor rollout and golive and attend to any support issues and enhancements identified by business post golive.

Testing Skills

Creation, review, maintenance and execution of test cases, scenarios, and results.
Functional Testing of delivered functionality against gathered business requirements and test cases and scenarios.
Nonfunctional testing including security, usability, performance, and reliability testing as per