Intermediate Business Analyst – 6 Month Contract | IT Recruitment

Job Description

• Understanding the business requirements, and through a structured process, modeling, validating, and translating them into Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training documents that the business can use.
• Collaborating in the development of agile feature specifications which are used by developers to craft a technical solution meeting the business requirement
• Maintaining process and data models in the SPARX Enterprise Architect tool and using these models in SOPs.
• Understanding how new laws, regulations and developments will impact businesses in the short-term insurance sector

Essential skills

• Java SE on Linux
• Spring
• Hibernate

The following skills will be preferred, but not essential

• JPA
• JTA
• JMS
• Camel
• Web Services – SOAP
• Agile
• Jira usage

Key Outputs

• Work on solutions supporting multiple business areas with emphasis on Broker integration points and a large number of affected system components
• Required to work under general direction within a clearly defined accountability framework
• Gather and interpret requirements from the business
• Participate in the solution design process
• Prepare the requirements specifications
• Define the success criteria for solution testing
• Analyze and decompose relevant business processes and understand the impact on systems integration
• Performing business analysis and process improvement
• Provide assistance to solution delivery on implementation and training
• Assist (when necessary) with systems testing
• Ensure that proposed test solutions cover all aspects of delivered business specification

Qualifications And Experience

• Relevant business qualification including some financial studies
• Relevant Tertiary qualification or certificate/diploma in Business Process Analysis from industry recognized training institution
• Experience in financial analysis would be preferred
• 3 – 5 years’ experience as Business Analyst
• 2 – 3 years’ experience in the Short-Term Insurance Industry
• Experience in technical writing
• Experience in communicating with clients and facilitating workshops
• Experience in Model-Driven Design & Repository-Based Modelling tools, preferably Enterprise Architect, would be an advantage

Skills

• Business Process Modeling/Engineering based on BPMN
• Business writing skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Data Modeling based on Entity Relationship Diagrams or similar
• UML would be a recommendation
• Repository-Based Modeling tools like Enterprise Architect.

Knowledge

• Financial management
• Some knowledge as a Generalist or Specialist associated with the Short-Term Insurance Industry
• Business Change Life Cycle
• System Development Life Cycle (Agile experience would be preferable)

Competencies

• Working with people
• Deciding and initiating action
• Planning and organizing
• Negotiating and influencing
• Facilitation
• Ability to manage own workload and timelines