Sandton: Senior Business Analyst

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our dynamic financial services environment. This role requires an accomplished Business Analyst with extensive experience operating within complex, high-risk, and large-scale programmes and projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate the identification, analysis, and documentation of business problems, opportunities, and requirements.
• Elicit, analyse, validate, and manage business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear and actionable user stories, process models, business rules, and functional specifications.
• Ensure requirements are aligned to strategic business objectives and organisational goals.
• Conduct impact assessments and gap analyses to identify solution requirements and business implications.
• Define and maintain requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.

• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders, product owners, technology teams, architects, developers, testers, and project managers.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, brainstorming sessions, and requirement-gathering activities.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and build strong working relationships across business and technology teams.
• Drive collaboration and alignment across multiple business units and delivery teams.
• Present findings, recommendations, and solution options to senior stakeholders and decision-makers.

• Analyse current-state business processes and identify opportunities for optimisation and improvement.
• Document end-to-end business processes, workflows, and operational models.
• Facilitate future-state process design and business transformation initiatives.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives through process modelling, analysis, and solution recommendations.
• Identify operational inefficiencies, risks, and control weaknesses.

• Work within Agile delivery teams supporting iterative and incremental solution delivery.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to manage and refine product backlogs.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including: Sprint Planning Daily Stand-ups Backlog Refinement Sprint Reviews Retrospectives.
• Assist delivery teams in clarifying requirements and resolving business-related queries during development and testing.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), validation activities, and production readiness.

Requirements

Relevant Degree or Diploma in Business, Information Technology, Commerce, Engineering, or a related field. Business Analysis certification (CBAP, CCBA, FTI, AAC, or equivalent) advantageous. Agile certification advantageous.

Qualifications

Minimum 10 years of Business Analysis experience within complex enterprise environments. Proven experience working within Agile delivery environments . Demonstrated ability to manage and support multiple initiatives concurrently . Experience delivering projects across large, complex, and high-risk programmes. Strong stakeholder management and facilitation experience. Experience working across the full Business Analysis lifecycle.

Salary & Benefits

Salary information not specified in original job description.