Intermediate Business Analyst

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Group provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses.

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Role Purpose

To perform business and system analysis tasks through specialisation in understanding the business usage of information technology (IT) and helping technology add value to Momentum Investments.To transform business requirements (functional & non-functional) into a set of technical software requirements that specify the software solution.

Requirements

Qualifications

• BCom Informatics or BSC Degree.
• Diploma in Business analysis preferred.
  
  

Knowledge And Experience

• 6+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in the investment environment.
• At least 4 years’ IT experience working with integrated solutions.
• A good understanding of API’s.
• Agile working experience preferred.
• SQL knowledge is a must.
• IT workflow tools – JIRA, Lucidchart et
  
  

Duties & Responsibilities

Key Performance Areas

• Investigate and perform business analysis, determine business system requirements, and identify alternatives.
• Own the set up and facilitation of workshops with stakeholders to gather, elicit and identify business and system requirements.
• Design and document innovative business solutions using information technology.
• Translate business requirements to a level of detail appropriate for implementation using user journeys, user stories with acceptance criteria; process diagrams; data models; business rules and mockups).
• Ensure solutions are aligned to the business and system architecture.
• Assist technical designers to understand the business requirements.
• Participate and provide input into the design and functional discussion with the technical designers.
• Testing of technical solutions, business and technical processes and calculations.
• Assist and sign off the test cases for functional and non-functional, integration and testing activities.
• Investigate, identify and document business requirements to address process or system constraints resulting in repeated queries or errors.
• Identify system trends and propose solutions to manage the sustainability of the system/capability.
• Enable the trainers to compile process and training documentation.
• Ensure effective and consistent service delivery and support to both internal and external clients in line with the MMH values.
  
  

Competencies

Analysis Competencies Required

• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Ability to hold elicitation sessions from a business and technical perspective.
• Can document processes on any document processing tool.
• Apply analytical skills to all work performed.
• Attention to detail
• Investigative and information gathering skills
• Ability to work independently
• Take ownership and accountability
• Take initiative
• Problem solving
• Ability to manage pressure
• Must be able to build and maintain relationships.
• Apply business analysis tools and techniques to continuously improve thinking and solutions.
• Align solutions to IIBA standards and practices.
  
  

Technical Competencies Required

• Ability to define Open API’s using OpenAPI editor.
• Ability to do low fidelity UX mockups.
• Ability to put together basic UML.
• Working knowledge of postman, Soap UI, mongo and swagger.