Bellville: Senior Business Analyst – 1 Year Contract – Hybrid posted by Progressive IT Resourcing

February 14, 2026 Jobs in Bellville

Progressive IT Resourcing

Western Cape

Other IT/Computer

Job Description

About the Role

Our Client has a one year contract opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst. The role is embedded in one of their core teams and supports the company’s strategic initiatives across inwards and outwards value streams.

Key Responsibilities

Consult with business to identify problems and opportunities
Conceptualize solutions and develop business cases
Analyze and model business processes and data requirements
Validate that requirements and solutions meet strategic and project objectives
Elicit, document, and maintain business and functional requirements across multiple projects
Plan, structure and organize work to ensure successful, timely delivery and to preserve institutional knowledge
Participate in QA, UAT, demos, and training
Investigate production incidents and change requests
Collaborate with project management, change management, training, design, development, and testing teams AI, robotics), and Change Management.
Comply with company policies, standards, and methodologies
Stay current on industry trends in short-term insurance, reinsurance, and digital environments
Contribute to monthly reporting and statistics

Requirements

IT Degree or related diploma, analysis or information/technology systems, e.g. B. Comm Informatics, B.Sc. Comp Sci. or B.Eng. or Act Sci major.
Project management qualification
Relevant Business analysis qualification
8 plus years experience as a Business Analyst in Financial Services servicing high volume transactional software.
Solid working knowledge of Sql (read, execute Sql coding)
Advanced Excel and Power Query experience
Extensive experience in Data analysis and visualization
Applied working knowledge of Large Language Models (CoPilot, etc.)
Advanced Excel, Power Queries and working SQL query experience.
Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) advantageous
Experience in agile environments (Scrum, product backlogs, user stories)
UML and BPMN experience are essential
Enterprise Architect and knowledge of case tools is essential

Qualifications

No specific qualifications mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

Salary information not provided.

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