Asset Management - Business Analyst II

Location

Role is based at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

Job Classification

Nedgroup Investments is an award-winning global investment business with a growing presence in Europe. Nedgroup Investments offers a wide range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors. Nedgroup Investments is a division of Nedbank Group Ltd, leveraging the investment and financial expertise of one of South Africa's largest financial services groups.

Job Purpose

To enable change by defining the needs and the rationale for change, to understand the current state, to define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current to the future state by applying the principles of business analysis, according to the requirements classification schema, from a diverse array of multi-functional perspectives with an agile mindset.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on medium size / complexity initiatives.
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders and confirm the results.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution, and eliminate barriers / constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on Nedbank's delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices.
• Analyse requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.
• Understand the product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
• Understand the hypothesis, business outcomes and team backlog.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity / problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs.
• Use visual diagrams to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, and dependencies.
• Decompose features and themes to analyse and write user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and business, stakeholder, solution and transition requirements to meet PI objectives.

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People Specification

We believe in employing highly motivated, sharp and quality orientated people that thrive in a culture that celebrates and supports diversity within an environment that is creative, collaborative, challenging and dynamic.

Essential Qualifications

Preferred Qualification

IT qualification, Diploma in BA endorsed by IIBA

Minimum Experience Level

6 - 8 years BA experience, IT project experience, business exposure, industry exposure.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

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