Banking Business Analyst
Exusia
- South Africa
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Banking & Finance
- 4+ years experience in Banking domain delivering technology solutions to improve business outcome
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with product delivery team, sales team, client and account managers and act as SME for them
- Make a compelling business case and value proposition. Ensure projects achieve promised business value/RoI
- Lead requirements elicitation and collaborate with business users and other stakeholders to obtain information
- Conduct and lead Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
- Drive adoption of IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles.
- Drive collaboration with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct UAT and train the trainer/user, support change management and the product manager with commercialisation.
- Lead all aspects of backlog refinement and increment planning and champion DevOps & Built-in quality principles and limit WIP.
- Champion minimum viable thinking by defining, prioritising, estimating and planning small increments to achieve increment plans.
- Drive early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues and dependencies within scope and across projects
- Hands on experience delivering IT projects in Banking & Financial services domain
- Deep understanding of Lending & Mortgage data and applications used in the domain
- Adept at performing requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information
- identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.
- Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, and Enterprisewide dependencies.
- Strong Agile skills and should be able to drive resolutions for impediments and spikes and enable epics/stories, and synthesise the data to articulate requirements.
- Document Epics/features/themes to analyse user stories - identify gaps, missing stories, acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
- Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance
- Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows/ ERDs through all 7 product dimensions on a portfolio level by pairing with BDMs.
- Strong organizational skills and detail oriented
- Strong communication and presentation skill
- Must be able to learn, understand and apply new technologies as per the project and program needs
- Strong Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), MS Project, MS Server
- Knowledge or understanding of product design tools
- Exposure to other banking domains like Payments, Capital Markets will be useful
- Exposure to product owner role will be a huge advantage
- Exposure to Azure cloud services