Extracts business requirements through workshops and interviews from the various user groups and documents those accurately
Acts as an interface between the business and technology teams by maintaining these partnerships and ensuring delivery in an agile/iterative environment
Communicates and controls issues when it arises to overcome limitations
Understands and interprets business requirements and convert them into functional specifications that will form the basis for technical development
Creates specifications for reports, cubes, stars etc.
Interacting with the users of the systems
Facilitates user acceptance testing of solutions
Key Outputs
Process – Good understanding of the SDLC and appropriate tools and methodologies, particularly for analysis
Domain – Experience in the Insurance field will be advantageous but not essential
Decision making – Making effective decisions based on sound judgment
Analytical thinking – Ability to analyse and understand challenges/opportunities and to propose thoroughly researched solutions to overcome these challenges or exploit the opportunities
Problem solving and diagnostic work
Forming an integral part of the systems development life cycle
Understanding the business issues and data challenges of client’s organisation and industry
Decompose high-level business requirements, Data Models and Interface documents into an appropriate level of: business rules, documentation of source to target mappings, transformation logic, business metrics and incorporating these into User or Information Requirement Specifications
Facilitating Business Design sessions and various meetings with clients
Facilitating functional / technical design sessions with the development teams
Taking responsibility during the development life cycle to resolve any business related issues
Performs impact assessments on new Product and Services to relative to the BI environment
Establishes validation and balancing criteria to ensure data integrity within the BI application
Providing innovative solutions for product features
Keeping abreast of industry developments in area of expertise
Identifying and providing solutions for improvement in internal processes
Consistently delivering high quality service to clients
Continuously seeking opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships
Keeping abreast of industry developments in area of expertise
Qualifications & Experience
Matric
Experience of 3+ years of writing of software functional specifications
3+ years of writing of software business requirement specifications
3+ years of Business Analysis in the field of application (Software) design and Business Intelligence.
1-2 years’ experience working/design/implementation of databases and SQL scripting
3 year related Tertiary B Degree and Business analysis courses
Experience in the Insurance domain advantageous
Product Analysis experience advantageous
Data testing experience advantageous
3+ years of Data Warehouse Experience will be ideal.
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