About the position
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Senior Data Business Analyst to join our financial services client based in Centurion.
What you will be doing:
- Responsible for detailed business analysis - Stakeholder engagement via workshop facilitation, meetings, research and interviews to elicit and understand business requirements for all projects and change requests.
- Gain and apply understanding of the business in which we operate and the future domains in which we have the ambition to operate.
- Conduct thorough analysis of proposed technology solutions using investigative and information-gathering skills to highlight the impact of solutions on business processes and systems.
- Collaborating with cross functional teams, including IT professionals and other business analysts to deliver effective solutions.
- Ability to write and interpret data queries.
- Analyse large data sets and understand the granular detail as part of the analysis phase and subsequent solution invention process.
- Ability to use tools like QlikView / PowerBI / Excel, SQL, Databases etc. to analyze data and develop solutions.
- Create visual representations of current and future processes, helping to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
- Conducting professional process workshops with business and technology stakeholders to gather information and identify risks.
- Identifying, developing, and implementing necessary process improvements for key initiatives.
- Creating and implementing process metrics, reports, and control points (track, monitor and measure projects implemented)
- Proactively identifying and carrying out root cause analysis of the problem.
- Logically and accurately map business process steps according to defined standards and maintain existing refinery processes and documentation.
- Collaborating with other stakeholders to ensure achievement of project goals.
- Driving process adoption & compliance with end users.
- Keeping a systematic approach to coordinating and managing process and system change definitions and implementations.
- Application of industry related methodologies and frameworks such as design thinking
- Contribute to project planning, risk mitigation and scope management of key initiatives and other projects where involved in.
- Quality assurance of data and analytics solution delivery.
- Support user acceptance testing and creating of training material.
What we are looking for:
- Completed relevant degree (IT, Informatics, Data Science or equivalent).
- 8 years’ (Business Analysis and data modelling and/or data analysis) experience.
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
- Experience with AI and Machine learning preferred.
- Demonstrable ability to operate independently, efficiently, and effectively in a high transaction volume and complex environment.
- Knowledge of business process mapping systems such as Lucid and Bizagi.
- Other standard systems such as Microsoft Suite and Jira.
Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- business analysis
- Agile
- data analysis
- data modelling
