Business Analyst Financial Services Industry: FTC: Cape Town - Isilumko Staffing (JHB)

Description

Business Analyst: Financial Services Industry: Cape Town: Permanent Position

Microsoft Dynamics 365

The client is dedicated to supporting, growing, and empowering clients with affordable, easy, and suitable solutions, primarily through face-to-face intermediary channels, but also directly. We have approximately 2,000 tied advisers and 2,000 supporting independent brokers, all dedicated to meeting the financial needs of their clients.

What will you do?

The role of the Business Analyst is to ensure the smooth and effective running of the Intermediary Support and Compliance business systems and applications, related processes, and integration points with other systems and applications. The role is also responsible to reduce and prevent any business risks associated with the use of the system and to manage and facilitate the resolution of system issues, as well as driving any enhancements that are identified or suggested.

What will make you successful in this role?

The role is responsible to:

• Identify, analyze, and define business requirements received from Business Owners, Subject matter experts and/or Project teams.
• Make recommendations for the enhancement or replacement of existing applications used with modern, practical, cost-effective solutions.
• Identify opportunities where new technology, digital developments and/or automation can be value adding.
• Clearly document and articulate business requirements to development- and testing teams using appropriate solution diagrams, user stories, use cases or high-level functional requirements documents.
• Ensure the final deliverable meets project and business specifications and qualifications.
• Sign off User Acceptance Testing and Business Readiness Testing.
• Assist with production enquiries.

Qualifications and experience:

• Degree or Diploma in Business / System Analysis or similar qualification
• 3-5 years business analyst experience in the financial services industry
• Experience in implementing new technology, digitization, automation.
• Agile experience
• Exposure to user experience design, human centered analysis and design will be an advantage.

Knowledge and skills:

IT/Systems/Tools:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 will be an advantage
• Knowledge of PPO, JIRA, and Confluence
• Working knowledge of the SAFe Agile methodology will be an advantage
• Sound financial services industry knowledge/context
• Sales and advice processes/steps/standards/guidelines