business-analyst-at-optimal-growth-technologies

Job Description:

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Optimal Growth Technologies provides organizations of all sizes with the best, most trustworthy solutions. In the ever-evolving technology market, we believe that companies need reliable allies who can guide them through the challenges that accompany technological growth

Business Analyst

Your responsibilities will include:

Supporting the Portfolio Managers in all research, scoping, analysis, and design activities.
To perform business analysis and design activities by assessing requirements for the Lending team in Financial services in terms of feasibility, impact, and cost, thereby assisting to create and compile accurate user stories, derivation of business rules, customer journeys
Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog
To provide technical input into system definition and design activities and facilitate the delivery of value-added solutions.
To research / investigate current industry trends and standards in terms of technologies deployed/planned to be deployed and how that can enhance/optimize systems.
Act as a technical liaison between business and the technical teams and ensure the required support from all areas to ensure the delivery of quality solutions.
Ensure that projects are delivered according to requirements, and specified designs and that the technical and business teams are aligned around the same objectives and deliverables.
To ensure that solutions are delivered through the agile delivery processes and to support the technical scrum teams with the delivery of solutions e.g. facilitation of configuration, testing, and rollout coordination.
To research, define, and maintain industry best practices.
To maintain, re-evaluate, optimize or automate existing business processes.
To create reports and feedback for executive and line management.
Perform quality assurance across business analysis documentation, vendor documentation, proposals, technical designs, test documentation, and operational handover documentation.
To partake in all of the key agile ceremonies within the team to contribute to the successful delivery.

Ideally you should possess the following:

Matric/Grade 12 is essential.
3 Year Degree / Diploma in Information Technology / Business Analysis.
5-8 years of business analysis/systems analysis experience preferably in a highly complex development environment.
Agile methodology and experience preferred.
Experience in Financial Services.
Experience in Supply chain preferred
Lending experience preferred.
Change control procedures
Agile Methodologies
Project management
Business analysis methods
Product development.