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ITHALA DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION
 
BUSINESS ANALYST BANKING X2: D1
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
ITHALA SOC LIMITED
DURBAN HEAD OFFICE
REFERENCE NUMBER: BN20032
 
 
An exceptional opportunity awaits a dynamic individual with the right qualifications and experience to join the project team(s) in role of banking business analyst in: 
 Ensuring translation of business vision and intent into product design, 
 Documenting business and solution functional requirements through a structured process, 
 Ensuring that the business requirements are delivered in the resultant technology solution, 
 Converting business requirements into a technical solution, 
 Ensuring that a technical solution has the key artefacts to deliver a technical specification, 
 Ability to lead a development team in delivering the business solution, 
 Testing and validating the functionality of the technical solution against the business requirements, 
 Connecting the solution business model to Ithala’s enterprise architecture, 
 Working with multiple business units and multiple teams that require integration,
 Building and maintaining strong relationships with business clients and acting as consultant on solution projects, and 
 Representing Divisional IT Manager if necessary in an advisory capacity. 
 Identify and highlight opportunities for improvement. 
 Act as a consultant to the client on the application. 
 Provide advice when a requirement is raised that does not fit in with the business strategy. 
 Assist business in articulating the benefits they wish to derive from the solution. 
 Facilitating the development of a Business Case; this may include a financial analysis 
 Follow a structured process to understand and document client requirements 
 Perform analytical tasks, data extracts, run queries or any other form of analysis to gather information. 
 Following up with clients to clear up ambiguity and possible misunderstanding; documenting the requirements in a Business Requirements Specifications (BRS) document (which may include UML models, business process documents). 
 Ensuring alignment between the Business Case and the BRS. 
 Manage the quality of the documentation produced by the members in his or her team. 
 Review the functional requirements with the client, using appropriate formats such as presentations and walk-through discussion. 
 Validate the functional solution; this involves interpreting the BRD into a set of Functional Requirements Specifications (FRDs). 
 Apply knowledge of the system, interfaces and dependencies to highlight integration aspects that must be considered. Identify a set of stakeholders that need to be involved in creating and validating the FRDs. 
 Interview business and technical owners, as well as experienced members of the development/configuration team 
 Review the approved BRDs and FRDs with the development (or solution configuration) team 
 
The following entry requirements must be met in order to be considered for this position: 
 BSc (Computer Science), B Comm (Informatics/IM/Business Science), B Tech (IT/IM/FIS) or National Diploma (IT/IM/FIS). 
 Minimum of five (5) years IT experience and a minimum of five (5) years as a business analyst within a banking or financial services environment. 
 Retail Banking experience 
 Business analysis certification will be an added advantage. 
 Basic project management principles, business writing skills, presentation and facilitation skills 
 Software testing pack design, functional testing 
 Customer service orientation, result orientation, conflict resolution, negotiation skills 
 Time management, professional communication (written, verbal/presenting and listening) Creativeness, innovation, stress management, assertiveness, tenacity. 
 Experience and working knowledge of the following technologies/methodologies/notations 
  • UML,
  • BPMN using ARIS BPM/A or Metastorm BPM/A, 
  • BABoK, and Business intelligence/analytics solutions 
  • PMBoK/PMI, Process analysis/engineering 
  • Process Mapping 
  • Transactional products 
  • Retail Credit and Retail banking solutions 
  • Payments & Switching



ITHALA EMBRACES THE PRINCIPLES OF THE EMPLOYMENT EQUITY ACT 
 
CLOSING DATE: 29 JULY 2020
 
INTERESTED APPLICANTS MUST FORWARD A DETAILED CV, CERTIFIED COPIES OF QUALIFICATIONS AND IDENTITY DOCUMENT BY E-MAIL TO HR_Recruitment3@ithala.co.za
 
KINDLY ALSO INCLUDE A MOTIVATION OF HOW YOU MEET EACH OF THE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS LISTED ABOVE AND QUOTE THE REFERENCE NUMBER FOR THE POSITION. 
 
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