Job Title: Business Analyst
Job Location: Lagos
Job Details:
- The Business Analyst is responsible for gathering, analysing, refining, reviewing and documenting the business requirements for delivering the necessary technology service to business.
- They will identify and examine business needs and determine timely and effective solutions to business problems.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Develop project rationale and perform scoping assessments to determine feasibility of projects
- Highlight / identify gaps in existing functionality and review requirements with stakeholders
- Develop a comprehensive requirement specification that will determine the estimate of cost, time and resources to deploy solutions
- Review the functional specification document with the business unit to ensure its alignment to the business process
- Lead the consolidation and documentation of the information and inputs required for change management and implementation
- Liaise with the service development team to suggest a high-level functional solution
- Develop project estimates & complete financial model (costs, savings, revenue opportunities, investment horizon, etc.)
- Work with IT PMO to ensure that measures and mechanisms for benefits management are well defined
- Monitors the realization of benefits against what was defined in business case
- Ensure that relevant stakeholders are involved in specification of new services and/or major upgrades to existing services
- Articulate existing processes and visualise using Visual Studio
- Identify gaps in process for updates and efficiency
- Support relationship managers in engaging the business as required
- Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation.
Key Performance Indicator:
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- Completeness and accuracy of requirements captured (i.e. number of unidentified/ omitted requirements)
- Number of business requirements fulfilled
- Number of converted business requests for which no business cases exist
- Number of feasibility studies completed
- Business stakeholder / customer satisfaction level.
Education and Experience
- Minimum of a First Degree or its equivalent in a Business / IT related discipline
- 4+ years of experience in business optimization, problem-solving, or strategic solution roles with progressive responsibility, preferably in Financial Services or Technology environment
- Experience gathering and consolidating requirements from cross-functional groups
- PMI-PBA or IIBA-CCBA certification is preferred.
Core Skills Requirements (SFIA 7):
- Business Analysis
- Requirements Definition and Management
- Business Process Improvement
- Relationship Management
- Service Acceptance
- User experience analysis
- Benefits Management
- Service Acceptance
- Learning Delivery.
Other Knowledge Requirements:
- Experience gathering and consolidating requirements from cross-functional groups
- Ability to work under pressure and meet constantly changing timelines
- Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
- Exceptional process and organizational skills with the ability to mobilize change
- Sound conflict management skills.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in pdf or Microsoft Word, including current and expected salary to: [email protected] , [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Deadline: April 14, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Business Development Management, Consulting / Business Strategy/ Planning |