Description:
Requirements ManagementLead and facilitate requirements elicitation sessions with client stakeholders through workshops, interviews, and collaborative discussions to ensure comprehensive and accurate requirement gathering. Analyse complex business processes, systems, data flows, and rules to identify improvement opportunities, provide input to inform solution design, and ensure alignment with business objectives. Take ownership of the full requirements lifecycle, including the analysis, capture, refinement, validation, and traceability of requirements using Enterprise Architect (EA) and the company standards. Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, and aligned to business goals, and oversee the creation and maintenance of supporting documentation and artefacts. Lead the verification and validation of built systems by reviewing actual behavior against specified functional requirements and driving resolution of any discrepancies. Guide and mentor Junior Business Analysts in best practices for documentation quality, traceability, stakeholder engagement, and prioritisation based on customer value and delivery impact. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support effective prioritisation and sequencing of requirements, taking into account business value, technical feasibility, and interdependencies. Analyse and inform of the impact of requirement changes on existing business processes and systems, providing input to support accurate costing. Promote a system-thinking approach by evaluating broader operational context including performance, exception handling, and business continuity when assessing solution options or impacts.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
Build and maintain trusted relationships with diverse stakeholder groups, including clients, business owners, delivery teams, and executives, through clear and consistent engagement. Facilitate alignment between business and technical stakeholders by translating complex business needs and communication into structured, understandable formats for both audiences. Proactively manage stakeholder expectations throughout the project lifecycle by clearly communicating scope, constraints, priorities, and changes. Represent the Business Analysis function in cross-functional forums and workshops with client stakeholders. Navigate conflicting stakeholder perspectives by applying negotiation and conflict resolution techniques to reach practical, value-aligned outcomes. Lead the preparation and delivery of structured presentations, walkthroughs, and feedback sessions to communicate requirements, solution options, and analysis outcomes. Support and guide junior and intermediate BAs on effective stakeholder communication, meeting facilitation, and documentation clarity
19 May 2025;
from:
gumtree.co.za