Business Analyst

SCT resources have a broad range of skills in different technologies. The large skill-set has been made possible by a conscious focus on strengthening our skills base. Every person selected for our team brings something new, something that adds to our offerings. We learn continuously, both on the job and through formal training programs.

Company: SystemCanada | www.systemcanada.com

World wide office:  Canada - USA - Australia - UK - South Africa - New Zealand - Ireland - Japan

Job Description

This resource will be responsible for analysing and understanding business requirements and creating functional design specifications and defining business processes

Key responsibilities:

• Analyse and design new business processes
• Work with the business and other planners to assess current capabilities and identify high-level customer requirements
• Identify and define detailed product requirements and use cases
• Work with the project manager, architects, and other team members to define metrics and performance goals for the solution
• Participate in transitioning the requirements and use cases to the designers, and ensure a clear and complete understanding of the requirements
• Assist in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product, performance, and user acceptance testing
• Participate in testing
• Participate in quality management reviews, in particular reviews of the designs, prototypes and other requirements work products to ensure they fulfil the requirements
• Serve as a liaison to the business community
• Participate in a user and task analysis to maintain the business community's perspective
• Serve as a resource for the change management stream as they evaluate training and performance support needs and design the training and performance support products
• Inform the technical architect and project manager of any issues that may affect other areas of the project

Skills / Experience Required:

• Ability to analyse and design business processes
• Ability to quickly understand the business issues and data challenges of a client
• Ability to develop product requirements based on input gathered from a variety of sources including analysis results and feedback from the user community
• Ability to develop test conditions and expected results based on the application requirements
• Ability to review project deliverables for completeness and quality, and compliance with established project standards
• Possesses high-level technical understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design
• Business Case, financial and cost-modelling development skills
• Strong communications and presentation skills
• Strong problem solving skills
• Ability to interact with senior executives

Qualifications:

• Matric and relevant bachelor’s degree or diploma
• 2-4 years business analysis experience
• 2-4 years IT experience
• Competent in the use of MS Office tools I.E. Outlook, Word, Excel, MS Project, Visio and PowerPoint
• Years of relevant experience required: 2 to 3 years