Description:
Are you an experienced Business Analyst with a strong leadership background? Do you have the drive to shape and refine a growing Business Analyst practice? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! We are looking for a Business Analyst Practice Lead to take charge of our newly established Business Analyst Practice and work closely with a team of talented BAs. This leadership position will play a crucial role in defining and implementing best practices, streamlining processes, and ensuring the successful delivery of business analysis across multiple projects. Minimum Qualifications:- Education: BCom/BSc degree or equivalent qualification.
- Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Business Analysis within the financial services industry (preferably Short-term Insurance).
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Team Leadership or Management role.
- Over 5 years’ experience with Microsoft technologies (Windows, SharePoint, MS-365, MS-Teams, Power Apps, etc.).
- Proven experience in integration knowledge (API design, integration between on-premise and cloud environments, and multiple service provider platforms).
- Familiarity with infrastructure concepts such as virtualization, VPN, and Cloud technologies.
Business Analysis Leadership & Methodology:
- Define and establish methodologies, techniques, and tools for Business Analysts (BAs) to gather, document, and analyze business requirements.
- Develop and enforce standards and best practices for performing business analysis.
- Facilitate workshops, collect and document business requirements from stakeholders.
- Analyze data, processes, and systems to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization.
- Encourage collaboration and communication across BAs, departments, stakeholders, and project teams.
- Provide templates and guidelines for documenting requirements, use cases, process flows, and other critical business analysis artifacts.
- Ensure business and technical specifications provided to technical teams are complete, accurate, and unambiguous.
- Oversee the requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, and implementation activities.
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the service desk, including resource management, prioritization, and ensuring adherence to service level agreements (SLAs).
- Guide and manage the BA team to ensure efficient delivery of projects and tasks.
- Take ownership of deployment processes when necessary, ensuring the successful transition of development items into production environments.
- Perform business analyst responsibilities for both existing and upcoming projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Develop user stories and documentation to reduce miscommunication, misinterpretation, and rework, increasing efficiency and clarity in project delivery.
- Act as the Change Manager, coordinating changes within the ST Admin environment.
- Lead and organize Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings within ST Admin and represent ST Admin in Group CAB meetings.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Exceptional planning, organizing, and project management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively and build strong interpersonal relationships across teams.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly. For more IT jobs, please visit www.networkrecruitment.co.za. If you wish to send your CV per email forward your CV to clombard@networkrecruitment.co.za and copy the reference number in brackets in the subject line of your e-mail.
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Requirements:
- Education: BCom/BSc degree or equivalent qualification.
- Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Business Analysis within the financial services industry (preferably Short-term Insurance).
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Team Leadership or Management role.
- Over 5 years’ experience with Microsoft technologies (Windows, SharePoint, MS-365, MS-Teams, Power Apps, etc.).
- Proven experience in integration knowledge (API design, integration between on-premise and cloud environments, and multiple service provider platforms).
- Familiarity with infrastructure concepts such as virtualization, VPN, and Cloud technologies.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Business Analysis within the financial services industry (preferably Short-term Insurance).
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Team Leadership or Management role.
- Over 5 years’ experience with Microsoft technologies (Windows, SharePoint, MS-365, MS-Teams, Power Apps, etc.).
- Proven experience in integration knowledge (API design, integration between on-premise and cloud environments, and multiple service provider platforms).
- Familiarity with infrastructure concepts such as virtualization, VPN, and Cloud technologies.
- Define and establish methodologies, techniques, and tools for Business Analysts (BAs) to gather, document, and analyze business requirements.
- Develop and enforce standards and best practices for performing business analysis.
- Facilitate workshops, collect and document business requirements from stakeholders.
- Analyze data, processes, and systems to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization.
- Encourage collaboration and communication across BAs, departments, stakeholders, and project teams.
- Provide templates and guidelines for documenting requirements, use cases, process flows, and other critical business analysis artifacts.
- Ensure business and technical specifications provided to technical teams are complete, accurate, and unambiguous.
- Oversee the requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, and implementation activities.
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the service desk, including resource management, prioritization, and ensuring adherence to service level agreements (SLAs).
- Guide and manage the BA team to ensure efficient delivery of projects and tasks.
- Take ownership of deployment processes when necessary, ensuring the successful transition of development items into production environments.
- Perform business analyst responsibilities for both existing and upcoming projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Develop user stories and documentation to reduce miscommunication, misinterpretation, and rework, increasing efficiency and clarity in project delivery.
- Act as the Change Manager, coordinating changes within the ST Admin environment.
- Lead and organize Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings within ST Admin and represent ST Admin in Group CAB meetings.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Exceptional planning, organizing, and project management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively and build strong interpersonal relationships across teams.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities.
24 Mar 2025;
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