Assistant Business Analyst Software Development at Family Bank Ltd

Job Purpose: 

The incumbent will be responsible to analyze or identify business requirements and convert them into a software solution by figuring out why users need a new application or solution and then defining the user, functional, and non-functional requirements that the project and development team can use to evaluate, plan, design, and build a software product.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements analysis, validation, and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable; and transfer the same knowledge to the development team.
• Project management duties
• Document business requirements and processes for all business initiatives and projects.
• Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems enhancement.
• Develop high level solution designs while ensuring requirements are in alignment with business strategies and business architecture roadmap/framework.
• To be responsible for the requirements management in the scrum teams.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or requirements workshops.
• Participate in the business initiatives prioritization stage.
• Participate and guide on functional tests planning and execution.
• Participate in the IT quality assurance process.
• Review the current deployment approach and evaluate / propose / expose opportunities for enhancing the deployment model for new and existing solutions.
• Advice on mechanism and reuse of built solutions for ease of Budget planning & control over IT Strategy and Architecture
• Any other official duty that may be allocated by management from time to time.
• Ensures that all activities are in line with AML/KYC and CTF laws and regulations in your area.
• Ensure compliance with the Data Protection laws, policies and procedures of the Bank.
• Offer assistance and advice to business users in the effective use of systems and other surrounding application.
• Participate in meetings with the ICT team to discuss progress and issues to be resolved, and report progress on a weekly basis to Director of ICT.
• Close on issues raised in the helpdesk that relate to the systems in scope.
• Any other official duty that may be allocated by management from time to time.

The Person:

The ideal candidate must possess the following:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field of study from a recognized institution.
• 5 and above Years’ Experience in a Banking or Telco ICT Department.
• Certification in Project Management or ITIL Foundation, Certificate in CBAP is a Distinct Advantage

Key Competencies and Attributes:

• Personality: A go-getter, good negotiator, enthusiastic, results oriented with excellent communication and social skills.
• Influence stakeholders to adopt standard working frameworks and collaboration with IT and Business Owners and Subject Matter Experts during innovation identification and appraisal of Projects
• Communicate clearly and persuasively, orally or in writing, dealing with technical issues in a nontechnical manner.
• Work participative on projects with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Analyze and choose between options where the solution is not always obvious.
• Capacity to influence decisions at senior management levels
• Analyze information from range of sources and develop effective solutions/recommendations.
• Keep abreast of technical developments and trends, bring these into day-to-day work when feasible and build them into new project developments.
• Proficient in latest technology for IT systems and management.
• Aim to get things done well and set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seek ways of improving performance.
• A forward planner with clear focus, mature, reliable, hardworking and able to work without supervision