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Cape Town, South Africa Third Quarter Business Resources
Job Title:
Principal Business Analyst
Duration:
Permanent
Location:
Cape Town, Southern Suburbs
Industry:
Financial
Description:
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This role exists within the financial industry and is responsible for creating, refining and clarifying the detailed definition of a complex business need within the organisation, designing the corresponding business processes and supporting the end-to-end implementation of the business solution. The incumbent would be recognized as a lead specialist in Finance business analysis, with a background in Finance.
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The role requires the incumbent to lead, support and manage a team on an assigned business problem or initiative and to determine which activities are necessary in order to successfully complete a business analysis effort. Provides thought leadership, mentoring and guidance to others. Expert in business analysis techniques.
KRA’s
·******** Ability to present highly complex ideas and solutions and demonstrate value.
·******** Analysis of the Finance business environment as input into the organisations strategy.
·******** Application of in-depth expertise to complex organisational problems and development of innovative solutions and end-to-end operating models.
·******** Create and refine the detailed definition of complex business needs at an enterprise level, and the corresponding business solutions.
·******** Design and review new complex business processes.
·******** Elicitation of requirements, including requirements analysis, management and communication.
·******** Identifies and manages stakeholders and their needs.
·******** Selects, implements and governs the use of Business Analysis techniques, methodologies and templates to suit the specific business problem.
·******** Solution assessment and validation.
·******** Leading change - Designs change to match organisational need; drives the change process forward; maintains momentum and a clear sense of overall purpose and strategic impact of change.
·******** Works collaboratively with Business Owners and Architects to understand business problems and recommends solutions across process, technology, data and people that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
·******** Ability to participate in developing Business Strategies.
·******** Leads business requirement/design phases on Finance projects or programmes with significant risk and complexity to develop strategic solutions.
·******** Builds mutually beneficial relationships within the organization.
·******** Responding to stakeholder needs and influencing the development of alternative solutions.
·******** Holds first line managers accountable for managerial work, including selection, performance management and effectiveness of the organisations Business Analysis capability.
·******** Acts as mentor to the team and supports an environment of continual improvement.
·******** Accountable for service delivery predominantly through own efforts and those of junior analysts assigned to the deliverable.
·******** Plays a leadership role as facilitator, mentor and coach to the broader team.
·******** Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality for periods of up to a year.
Requirements
Cape Town, South Africa Third Quarter Business Resources
Job Title:
Principal Business Analyst
Duration:
Permanent
Location:
Cape Town, Southern Suburbs
Industry:
Financial
Description:
*
This role exists within the financial industry and is responsible for creating, refining and clarifying the detailed definition of a complex business need within the organisation, designing the corresponding business processes and supporting the end-to-end implementation of the business solution. The incumbent would be recognized as a lead specialist in Finance business analysis, with a background in Finance.
*
The role requires the incumbent to lead, support and manage a team on an assigned business problem or initiative and to determine which activities are necessary in order to successfully complete a business analysis effort. Provides thought leadership, mentoring and guidance to others. Expert in business analysis techniques.
KRA’s
·******** Ability to present highly complex ideas and solutions and demonstrate value.
·******** Analysis of the Finance business environment as input into the organisations strategy.
·******** Application of in-depth expertise to complex organisational problems and development of innovative solutions and end-to-end operating models.
·******** Create and refine the detailed definition of complex business needs at an enterprise level, and the corresponding business solutions.
·******** Design and review new complex business processes.
·******** Elicitation of requirements, including requirements analysis, management and communication.
·******** Identifies and manages stakeholders and their needs.
·******** Selects, implements and governs the use of Business Analysis techniques, methodologies and templates to suit the specific business problem.
·******** Solution assessment and validation.
·******** Leading change - Designs change to match organisational need; drives the change process forward; maintains momentum and a clear sense of overall purpose and strategic impact of change.
·******** Works collaboratively with Business Owners and Architects to understand business problems and recommends solutions across process, technology, data and people that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
·******** Ability to participate in developing Business Strategies.
·******** Leads business requirement/design phases on Finance projects or programmes with significant risk and complexity to develop strategic solutions.
·******** Builds mutually beneficial relationships within the organization.
·******** Responding to stakeholder needs and influencing the development of alternative solutions.
·******** Holds first line managers accountable for managerial work, including selection, performance management and effectiveness of the organisations Business Analysis capability.
·******** Acts as mentor to the team and supports an environment of continual improvement.
·******** Accountable for service delivery predominantly through own efforts and those of junior analysts assigned to the deliverable.
·******** Plays a leadership role as facilitator, mentor and coach to the broader team.
·******** Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality for periods of up to a year.
Requirements
- Tertiary qualification in Finance/Accounting (e.g. BCom Accounting, BBSc) and Business Analysis qualification (e.g. FTI) is essential. Post-graduate and/or professional qualification in Finance/Accounting preferred eg. Honours, CA.
- 8 years’ experience in business process, systems and data analysis, solutions design & testing, data modelling.
- 5 years’ experience in similar environments i.e. within finance, risk, tax functions of large corporates.
- An excellent communicator who can adapt to different levels of audience expertise and different sizes of audiences in both their written and verbal communication.
- Well-versed in managing senior stakeholders’ expectations.
- Proven ability to shape a vague, complex business need or issue into a clear, well-defined problem statement/opportunity which is well understood by relevant stakeholder group.
- Proven ability in multi-tasking and managing several deliverables at once.
- Good business acumen.
- High EQ and ability to read stakeholder groups and adjust style to most effectively elicit information, obtain buy-in and support and develop trust.
- Good inter-personal skills, including influencing skills.
- Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal and team results.
- Self-starter, able to show initiative and work with little to no guidance.
- Capacity to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Solution-driven, passionate and energetic.
- Collaboration (Relating)
- Customer First
- Execution
- Innovation (Perspective)
- Leading with Influence
- Personal Mastery (Learning)
- Strategic