Business Analyst

About

Description

Glacier by Sanlam brings together leading experts and respected financial services companies to meet clients’ investment needs. We deliver focused investment services through specialist teams, partner with acclaimed financial intermediaries and pride ourselves on our superior products and solutions and high quality service. We offer a comprehensive range of investment solutions, designed to assist in the creation and preservation of wealth. Our offering encompasses local investments, including fixed term investments and investments with guarantees, international investments, retirement saving solutions, and retirement income solutions. While each solution has its own distinct purpose, they all share the world-class quality and commitment that have come to distinguish Glacier.

Responsibilities

• Understand Business Needs: Analyse and comprehend business requirements related to potential changes or transformations
• Build Key Relationships: Foster positive connections with stakeholders, including business owners, product owners, development teams, trainers, and users
• Advise on Best Outcomes: Serve as a trusted advisor, providing insights on optimal solutions for business problems or initiatives
• Facilitate Workshops: Lead workshops, interviews, play back sessions and solution workshops to gather information and finalize requirements
• Produce Models and Diagrams: Create models or pictures that will best indicate the work and areas that are impacted and what the outcome should look like
• For instance, and Context diagram or a Rich picture of the end state
• Implement Best Practices: Document and enforce best practices, standards, and guidelines
• Consider Non-Functional Requirements: Address system characteristics such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability in product design
• Present Future-Fit Solutions: Demonstrate solutions through walk-throughs and prototyping to analysts, project managers, architects, development teams, and testers, aiding in story estimations and prioritization
• Implement and Test Solutions: Oversee the implementation, testing, and deployment of solutions
• Support Business Transition: Assist in business transitions by transferring knowledge to users, trainers, and peers
• Enhance Analysis Framework: Continuously research, develop, improve, and implement the analysis framework
• Provide Regular Feedback: Offer consistent feedback to relevant stakeholders
• Post-Implementation Support: Provide ongoing support to both business and IT post-implementation
• Take Initiative and Innovate: Proactively explore new technologies and foster innovation to enhance solutions and processes

Qualifications

• BCom, BSc in Information Technology or Informatics or any other formal qualification as a Business Analyst
• 3 to 5 years of experience in Financial Services industry (LISP, Wealth, or Asset management experience advantageous)
• SQL experience would be advantageous
• SCRUM and other Agile methodologies experience would be advantageous
• Experience in Design Thinking principles would be advantageous
• Experience in doing documentation in Confluence would be advantageous
• Experience in SARS and or Tax would be advantageous
• Experience in AML PDD would be advantageous
• Experience in setting up client documentation would be advantageous

Application instructions:

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