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LAND BANK
 
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TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST
Details
Closing Date: 2023/12/07
Reference Number: LAN231119-1
Job Title: Technical Business Analyst
Division: Finance and Treasury and IT
Unit: Finance Treasury & IT
Job Type Classification: Permanent
Location – Country: South Africa
Location – Province: Gauteng
Location - Town / City: Centurion
 
Job Advert Summary
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
 
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Assist with analysis and development of technical business requirements to inform solution development. Support the Senior Business Analyst with business relationship management.

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Key Performance Areas       
1. Assist in the Analysis and development of Business Requirements Documents for all Applications within the Land Bank Architecture
  • Selects appropriate business analysis approach
  • Evaluates project complexity, assumptions, constraints and dependencies
  • Identifies all stakeholders and determines stakeholder influence and relationship needs
  • Support stakeholder engagement (internal and external) relationships. Relationships with stakeholders include: Business application users Supports the development of a business analysis work-plan to manage own and team activities, tasks, deliverables and schedule
  • Supports the development of an effective communication plan to meet project and stakeholder needs
  • Plans requirements approval and change
  • Identifies and communicates risks and issues that may require changes to plans or scope
2. Liaise with the Business to Develop Technical Business Specifications
  • Involve stakeholder’s in information gathering activities - captures information provided in requirements discovery sessions in a manner that stakeholders understand and can review and validate
  • Elicits required information from stakeholders to develop technical specifications -
  • Accurately translates stakeholder information into solution requirements
3. Support the Development Team with Understanding of Business and Functional Requirements during Build and Testing Phase
  • Prioritises requirements effectively based on factors including business value, cost to deliver and time constraints and builds stakeholder consensus on requirements prioritisation to ensure analysis and implementation focus on critical requirements
  • Organises and synthesises information provided by stakeholders in understandable views and clearly articulates the relationships between the various requirements and stakeholder needs
  • Provide input in the current organisational state using a combination of textual formats, models, diagrams and matrices
  • Consistently leverages models and specifications to provide insight into opportunities for improvement
  • Effectively uses models as a tool to document requirements and also a tool to aid in elicitation activities Accurately identifies and confirms assumptions and constraints
4. Support the Development of Functional and Test Specifications
  • Effectively communicates solution impact to stakeholders
  • Demonstrates understanding of the changes that will occur with the new solution (business area, technical infrastructure, processes and operations)
  • Accurately assesses stakeholder beliefs, attitudes and willingness to adapt to new solutions
  • Supports the development of acceptance criteria and a plan to evaluate the solutions
  • Facilitates acceptance of the solution and accurately ensures that the solution performs to meet the business requirements
  • Effectively prioritises defects and issues with the solution
  • Effectively evaluates defects and issues for potential workarounds that are acceptable until they can be addressed
5. Conduct/ Support Functional, User Acceptance and End User Testing
  • Develop test cases
  • Analyse test outputs and corrective actions
6. Conduct Technical System Training to Business Super Users
  • Support the in the development of business application technical manuals
  • Manage end to end business super user training 
 
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
  • National Diploma or equivalent
  • 3-5 years experience as a Business Analyst
  • 3-5 years experience in writing of BRS (Business Requirements Specifications)
  • 3-5 years experience in writing of FS (Functional Requirements Specifications)
  • 3-5 years experience in planning and executing UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and RT (Regression Testing)
  • 3-5 years general awareness of technologies (ARIS, SAP, Microsoft Applications)
 
Critical Competencies
  • Knowledge and understanding of business process and software applications fundamentals
  • Experience in business and data modelling 
  • Experience in dealing with multiple process and systems methodology application 
  • Thorough understanding of data principles and applications
  • Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills with an eye to visualize and design for the future
  • Experience in multiple business area and systems focus with strategic business and industry awareness limited to areas of experience
  • Thorough understanding of business processes and technologies impact within the organisation
  • Ability to interact with various specialists internally or externally to drive continuous improvement and innovation
  • Experience in software applications (Advanced Excel; Advanced Visio; Advanced Word; Advanced PowerPoint)
  • Knowledge and understanding of the principles of business, the application thereof, the opportunities within business and the seizure of such opportunities
  • Sound knowledge of the different business systems, associated applications and the interrelationship between the business systems
  • Advanced report writing skills (Process reports, specifications and executive summaries)
 
Additional Requirements      
  • Extended hours as and when required.
  • Travel as and when required.
 
 
Policy
Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Land Bank.
 
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