Principal Business Analyst, T24 Core Banking System at KCB Bank Kenya

 Key Responsibilities

• Leads project teams and vendors to drive the business needs and expectations by ensuring business intent is well understood and delivered.
• Manage business relationships with different business areas and liaise with other sections/departments in the delivery of services and projects as well as maintain good working relations between the solution engineering teams and all stakeholders.
• Review and validate test basis documents, test cases, test strategy documents for accuracy, coverage and conformity to requirements.
• Manage and execute various levels of functional and non-functional testing including system, user acceptance and regression tests.
• Generate process and solution documentation that clarifies and validates how the organization utilizes business systems to meet business requirements.
• Working and aligning with the risk, compliance, and data protection teams to complete new products and services risk assessments and ensure services reach the bank’s risk and compliance standards.
• Collaboratively develop and review Business Cases, Request for Proposals (RFPs), Request for Quotations (RFQs) for technology acquisitions and solutions delivery, vendor evaluation documents and plans, and participate in technical and functional evaluation of bids for new systems and solutions.
• Promote proper release planning, guaranteeing successful solution deployments and adherence to business needs and priorities.
• Participate in innovation to improve delivered products and services and to explore new technologies and their applications to the enterprise space.
• Mentor, coach and grow staff within business analysis function.

 The Person

For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
• Professional Qualifications/Certifications in any of the following: - ITIL Foundation / TOGAF / Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
• PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is an added advantage. 
• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Project Management is an added advantage.

 Experience

• A minimum of 6 years’ progressive experience in Information Technology. 
• 4 years’ experience in Business Analysis and Architecture. 
• 4 years’ experience in IT Projects Implementation.
• 3 years’ experience in Temenos T24 Core Banking System Implementations/Upgrades/ Enhancements.
• 3 years’ experience in T24 Design and Architecture, product upgrades, configurations/parameters required for customizing the T24 to accommodate business requirements.