Job Purpose
Understanding the business requirements, and through a structured process, modeling, validating and translating it into business requirement specifications that are translated into detailed functional specifications that undergo business stakeholder review.
Responsibilities
Requirements Management
- Gather business requirements and translate them into functional requirements for improvement and enhancement.
- Meet with users to gather requirements for project definition.
- Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Elicit requirements using interviews, data analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and workflow analysis.
- Become a subject matter expert on our data, processes, and business methodologies.
- Collect multiple streams of data and decompose them into concise specifications.
- Develop requirements according to documentation standards.
- Analyse existing procedures and evaluate requested requirements to identify system changes and improvements.
Business Analysis Activities
- Decompose high-level business requirements into an appropriate level of business rules and detailed user, functional, and non-functional requirements using alternative views such as flows, diagrams, models, and use cases when applicable.
- Perform business impact analysis with line managers on any change that is imposed on the current environment.
- Measure and baseline all current main value chains’ performance and comparison of the To–Be process performance.
- Provide and identify opportunities for optimisation.
- Carry out feasibility and assessment work for proposed and current projects to contribute to the development and continuous review of business cases.
- Delivery and engagement within the project pipeline.
- Improve processes within the organisation to increase the level and quality of service provided to internal and external customers.
- Deliver a solution that helps the organisation operate efficiently, minimizing operational costs and maximizing profitability.
Business Process Mapping
- Maintain an agreed set of artifacts and lead business process mapping and efficiency work, including methodology and approach, workshop facilitation, and maintenance of appropriate business process and enterprise-wide requirements, to support the wider change agenda.
Change Management
- Collaborate with technical experts and business units to determine the best possible reporting mechanisms.
- Be a liaison between Product Development, Technology, and internal business units including Customer, Go To Market, Sales, Operations, Fraud, Risk and Compliance.
- Collaborate with technical staff to determine system specifications and requirements.
- Counsel and advise users on system capabilities and processes.
- Manage and coordinate all change activities within project.
- Self-Management
- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures.
- Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change.
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs.
Behavioral Competencies
- Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Optimizes Work Processes: Knows the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Business Insight: Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
- Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Balances Stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Drives Engagement: Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
- Customer Focus: Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.
Skills
- Perform Gap Analysis: Works with full competence to conduct gap analysis between current and future states.
- Requirements Elicitation and Facilitation: Leads facilitated sessions for requirements elicitation, focus groups, and user acceptance testing.
- Verbal Communication: Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas and formulate plans.
- Business Process Modeling (BPM): Advanced level representation of enterprise processes for improvement and automation.
- Understands Customer Needs: Articulates customer needs in the customer’s business language and context.
- Managing Change: Applies a change mindset to the planning and execution of business activities.
- Project Management: Manages projects within desired cost, time, and quality parameters.
- Stakeholder Expectation Management: Identifies and develops strategies for managing stakeholder expectations.
Requirements
- Education: Degree in Business Analysis, Commerce, Project Management, IT, or Engineering.
- Experience: Minimum 5 years experience in Projects, Business Analysis, and Process mapping.
- Preferred: Experience within a mobile network, payments, or technical environment.