IT Business Analyst at CA Global

Job Description:
 
To gather, analyse, collate and distribute business requirements to drive projects and change initiatives across the bank and act as a conduit between business and IT to ensure business needs are translated into accurate, comprehensive technical requirements. The role also involves influencing decision-making through research and compilation of thought leadership where relevant.
Responsibilities:

• Build professional working relationships with key stakeholders, displaying sound abilities to listen, advise and influence at all levels
• Utilise appropriate formal and informal communication methods and stakeholder engagement forums
• Co-ordinate formal and ad hoc stakeholder engagement meetings
• Co-ordinate and facilitate training sessions where required
• Provide ongoing assistance and support to the team where required
• Understand information flows and knows who to contact to access specific information
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources
• Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
• Identify opportunities to leverage relationships and share knowledge and lessons learnt
• Provide research and thought leadership on identified business issues and opportunities to influence strategic decision-making
• Co-ordinate formal and ad hoc JAD sessions to inform the solution
• Plan the analysis effort and approach to solve key business issue / need
• Gather and analyse relevant information or requirement
• Design a workable solution to address the business objective by defining supporting processes, organisational structures, capabilities and relevant KPI’s and KRI’s
• Provide input into the look and feel of the system and the system’s functional requirements (where applicable)
• Support the build effort to ensure all business needs are being met
• Build test cases where applicable
• Maintain oversight of User Acceptance Testing to ensure business requirements have been appropriately met
• Support deployment of the solution, e.g. by facilitating training
• Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time-frames and according to quality standards

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or business, or equivalent work related experience preferred in asset management environments
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
• Extensive relevant working experience in an Investment Administration environment
• Proven experience in process, data and application analysis
• Accredited BA course
• Process engineering skills
• Root cause analysis skills
• Business architecture skills
• Business case development skills
• Knowledge of project delivery methodologies
• Project management skills
• Change management skills