Business Analyst

About this role

Discovery is looking for a Business Analyst to work from its Sandton office at 1 Discovery Place. The role turns business needs into clear functional and product specifications, then checks that the finished solutions do what they should.

What you’ll do

• Advise business stakeholders by questioning assumptions and making sure everyone understands what is needed.
• Build business cases that line up with the company’s strategic and operational goals.
• Write and validate customer and product requirement specifications.
• Design functional solutions with attention to system interfaces and dependencies.
• Plan and carry out testing, including support for user acceptance testing and sign-off.
• Keep project documents, risks, scope and delivery tracking in order.
• Review the work of junior analysts and give them feedback.
• Support live systems by analysing incidents and keeping stakeholders informed.

What you need

• Matric.
• An informatics degree or another relevant degree.
• At least 3 years of business analysis experience.
• Strong skills in requirements elicitation, business process modelling, process mapping and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with solution design, testing and test preparation, and project management.
• Advantageous: an advanced UML course, a BPMN course, or project management training or a qualification.
• Advantageous: business experience and product knowledge.
• Advantageous: exposure to a business intelligence (BI) environment.
• Working knowledge of tools such as Enterprise Architect, Power BI, Jira, Confluence, Figma, Postman, SoapUI, and SQL (Oracle, MSSQL or IBM InfoSphere).

Is this job for you?

This role suits an experienced analyst who enjoys working closely with business teams and turning their ideas into workable systems. You should be comfortable challenging assumptions, presenting to people, and guiding junior colleagues.

Tips before you apply

• Have your matric certificate, degree certificate and any course or training certificates ready to upload.
• Describe specific projects where you wrote specifications, ran testing or supported UAT, and state the years involved.
• List the tools you have used, such as Jira, Power BI or SQL, and show how you used them in real work.

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