Business Systems Analyst

This Business Systems Analyst position is within the Field Administration and Banking Systems, with a focus on banking solutions. Act as the liaison between the Business and IT organisations to provide business-critical and complex technical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Gather, analyse, document, and manage business and user requirements.
• Identify project interdependencies, manage requirement/scope issues and drive to closure.
• Translate business and user requirements into detailed system requirements.
• Leverage domain and analyst expertise to provide solutions to business and tech partners.
• Utilise appropriate analysis techniques (process modelling, use cases, etc. ) for each project.
• Educate business partners on systems capabilities and the feasibility of specific solutions.
• Manage effective working relationships with technology teams and business partners.
• Ensure that solution delivery is on time, within cost estimates and meets business needs.
• Negotiate solutions that satisfy business users and conform to the technical architecture.
• Support implementation tasks and complete all documentation on assigned projects.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst.
• Prior experience in the Banking and Finance domain.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills including ability to identify patterns, potential issues and then translate those into functional and system requirements.
• Strong understanding of business functional areas as well as the IT organisation's systems and capabilities.
• Experience in writing user stories, use case modelling, business process modelling.
• Prior experience working with databases, basic knowledge of SQL.
• Experience in Data management including analysis of existing data sets, requirement documentation for data extract, transformation and load, and requirement gathering for business reporting needs.
• Experience in working with REST-based web services, including documentation of requirements in the form of service specifications.
• Ability to apply artificial intelligence tools and concepts to improve efficiency in requirement gathering, analysis and documentation.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology practices.