Systems Analyst

Job Title: Systems Analyst

Employment type: Contract (On-site)

Contract length: 6 - 12 months

Location: Johannesburg South Africa

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

The Systems Analyst will be responsible for interpreting business requirements and translating them into detailed system design specifications. The role supports the development of effective flexible and efficient technology solutions by ensuring requirements documentation and solution designs are clear complete and aligned.

Core Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Analyse and document business and system requirements in a clear and structured manner.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical design specifications.
• Create and maintain documentation such as functional specifications system requirements technical specifications impact assessments and design documents.
• Ensure use cases services mappings and system documentation are accurate and up to date.
• Support solution design discussions JAD sessions project meetings and review sessions.
• Produce API documentation where applicable including service definitions and integration details.
• Work closely with business stakeholders developers testers architects and project teams.
• Ensure documentation remains aligned with changing requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience as a Systems Analyst Business Systems Analyst or similar role.
• Degree in IT Informatics Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• Strong understanding of systems analysis solution design and requirements documentation.
• Exposure to development languages such as Java and/or C#.
• Experience with UML sequence diagrams context diagrams and low-level design documents.
• Understanding of integration patterns including APIs SOAP REST JSON XML queues and batch processing.
• Ability to read and write SQL.
• Experience creating Functional Specification Documents and related system documentation.
• Strong analytical documentation stakeholder management and communication skills.

Mandatory Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Finance Business Computer Science Information Technology or a related field (Masters preferred).
• Previous experience within Banking Digital Payment & Card solutions or the FinTech industry.
• Regional experience including working in a faced-paced matrix organisation.
• Excellent communication skills in English (written verbal and presentation); fluency in Arabic is nice to have.

Preferred Skills:

• The ability to analyse data troubleshoot payment issues optimize processes and make data-driven decisions.
• Good understanding of payment systems digital platforms system workflows security basics and industry technologies.
• An understanding of regional regulations across financial services or payment networks.