Asset Management - Business Analyst II 136528
Asset Management - Business Analyst II 136528
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Job Description
Location
Role is based at the V&A Waterfront Cape Town
Job Classification
Nedgroup Investments is an awardwinning global investment business with a growing presence in Europe. Nedgroup Investments offers a wide range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors. Nedgroup Investments is a division of Nedbank Group Ltd leveraging the investment and financial expertise of one of South Africas largest financial services groups. The Nedgroup Investments Best of Breed philosophy sees us partner with select fund managers who we believe are able to provide consistent longterm outperformance for our clients. These fund managers are experts in their field of specialisation and we tend to partner with them for long periods of time giving them sufficient opportunity to deliver on their mandate objectives. We obsess about longterm performance and our top priority is to deliver a superior investment experience for our clients.
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Job Purpose
To enable change by defining the needs and the rationale for change to understand the current state to define the future state and to determine the activities required to move from the current to the future state by applying the principles of business analysis according to the requirements classification schema from a diverse array of multifunctional perspectives with an agile mindset. Follows rules and guidelines to perform tasks adheres to prescribed ways to work in order to execute activities related to the competency and recognizes the key elements of the competency and why they are important. Pair with Product Designers (CX/UX) Business Architects (BARC) Testers (QA) Data Analysts (DA) and key roles in the requirements value chain.
Job Responsibilities
- Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate organize and coordinate the BA efforts on medium size/complexity initiatives.
- Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders and confirm the results.
- Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure organize specify and model requirements and designs validate and verify information identify solution options that meet business needs and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.
- Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
- Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
- Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
- Execute according to IIBA best practices agile product delivery and lean principles based on Nedbanks delivery approach as per the BA methods frameworks standards tools techniques competencies and practices.
- Analyse requirements based on changes to users interfaces processes data flows constraints environments and nonfunctional requirements.
- Understand the product roadmap vision KPIs and metrics and align requirements accordingly.
- Understand the hypothesis business outcomes and team backlog.
- Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs.
- Use visual diagrams to model scope interfaces story context data flows processes and dependencies.
- Decompose features and themes to analyse and write user stories by identifying gaps missing stories and acceptance criteria scenario development and business stakeholder solution and transition requirements to meet PI objectives.
Job Responsibilities Continue
- Own decomposition of features elicitation analysis story writing and acceptance criteria writing to support delivery.
- Collaborate and cocreate process and capability alignment by pairing with the Process Engineer and Business Architect.
- Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler stories and synthesise the data to articulate requirements.
- Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user.
- Participate in Backlog Refinement increment planning and DevOps and BuiltI quality principles within and across squads where dependencies exist.
- Analyse/document data requirements that drive decisionmaking and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a project level by pairing with data analysts to ensure data governance.
- Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery elicitation analysis and documentation backlog refinement dependencies and delivery across squads .
- Participate in system demos and contribute to Inspect and Adapt offer suggestions for improvement.
- Actively participate and occasionally lead squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.
- Work independently to apply minimum viable thinking by defining prioritising estimating and planning small increments to achieve increment plans.
- Ensure early remediation by reducing waste rework and risk by identifying issues and dependencies .
- Negotiate challenges respectfully by communicating and listening to others reframe ideas and changes to promote solving problems across squads.
People Specification
We believe in employing highly motivated sharp and quality orientated people that thrive in a culture that celebrates and supports diversity within an environment that is creative collaborative challenging and dynamic. Aligned to our core purpose of enabling our investors to achieve their investment goals we are committed to enabling our staff achieve their full potential and longterm career growth at Nedgroup Investments. Specifically for this role we are looking for:
High standard of personal presentation.
Selfmotivated and well organised with an ability to adapt and tackle a wide variety of challenges.
Ability to deal with people both within the organisation and external customers
Essential Qualifications NQF Level
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification
IT qualification Diploma in BA endorsed by IIBA
Essential Certifications
Preferred Certifications
IIBA endorsed
Minimum Experience Level
6 8 years BA experience IT project experience business exposure industry exposure. Have a basic knowledge of and able to follow instructions for common Business Analysis techniques and practices.
Exposure to SCRUM/Agile methodology/SAFe methodology
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Research methodology
- Business writing skills
- BA Body Of Knowledge
- Agile Concepts
- Process Engineering Skills
- Business Analysis Descipline Techniques and Practices
- Global business analysis Trend
- Microsoft Office Products
- Data Analysis and Interpretation
Behavioural Competencies
- Influencing
- Quality Orientation
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Collaborating
- Continuous Improvement
- Adaptability
Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Contract
