Business Analyst
Job Description
What is a Business Analyst?
Often acting as the bridge between the business and IT, the Business Analyst will work with stakeholders to define their business needs and delivery requirements. They have strong problem solving skills, with their findings informing business decisions and technology solutions.
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Job Brief
We are looking for a Business Analyst who will be the conduit between our information technology capacity and our business objectives by supporting and ensuring the successful completion of analytical, building, testing and deployment tasks for IT projects and programs of work.
Responsibilities
- Elicit user, business and system requirements using various techniques such as requirements workshops, interviews, surveys, process descriptions, system documentation, use cases, business analysis, document analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Develop and maintain relationships with project team members, internal and external stakeholders, and vendors to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with project team members, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Ensure specifications are clear, robust and support business, data and integration needs.
- Support quality assurance and change management activities.
- Actively participate in the preferred project methodology and work collaboratively with technical teams.
Requirements and Skills
- Experience in business/systems analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems based on analysis and investigation.
- Proven experience in eliciting and documenting requirements.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of SQL databases, Software Development Life Cycle, Project Methodologies, User Acceptance Testing and/or Change Management practices.
- Qualifications in Business Information Systems or similar and/or Business Analysis certification such as Certified Analytics Professional (CAP)/Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).
Personal Attributes
- Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Analytical and critical thinker.
- Outcome focused, with the ability to negotiate and influence
- Diligent and organised, with strong time-management skills.
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