Senior Business Analyst - Mr Price Group

We have a new requirement for a Cape Town-based Senior BA that will work with our Yuppiechef team on an exciting contract basis!

Responsibilities

Strategy Analysis                   

• Analyse the current state of the environment
• Define the future state of the environment that we want to achieve
• Assess the risks and define a change strategy
• Responsible for keeping up to date with current and future trends and make relevant recommendations to the team                        

Planning & Monitoring            

• Define the BA approach which includes BA governance, performance improvements that need to be made based on the last review [i.e. lessons learnt] and any information management that needs to be adhered to
• Based on the stakeholder analysis, plan the best way of engaging with these stakeholders that gains commitment and helps them adopt the change

Elicitation and Collaboration              

• Plan the elicitation sessions that would need to be set up and define what the goals of each session should be and the type of session that would be most effective to run.
• Detail the elicitation results from these sessions and play them back to the stakeholders to validate and confirm them

Requirements Analysis, Design and Life Cycle                    

• Specify and model the requirements making sure they are at the right level of granularity and that they support the business goals
• Define solution options and compare them based on potential value and recommend a solution
• Understand what requirements map to what components or designs
• Keep requirements current throughout project lifecylcle
• Prioritise requirements based on business value and urgency
• Assess requirement changes to determine whether they should be tackled within the scope of the project
• Get approval on requirements

Solution Evaluation                

• Measure the performance of the solution using the predefined metrics in the business case
• If there are factors constraining the performance and resultant value then recommend solutions to increase this value            

Leading People                      

• Lead other Business Analysts on strategic projects
• Drive efficiencies in BA practices
• Provide guidance on business problems
• Lead complex workshops and facilitation sessions
• Coach intermediate Business Analysts

Requirements

• Based in Cape Town
• Available for a 6-month contract
• Relevant IT or Business Qualification
• 7 - 10 years experience in a Business Analyst role in delivering on Retail projects/building products and managing multiple stakeholders.
• Strong documentation and able communicate at various stakeholder levels.