Business Analyst job at NCBA Group
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Vacancy title:
Business Analyst

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Financial Services , Category: Business Operations ]

Jobs at:

NCBA Group

Deadline of this Job:
22 May 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 12, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Business Analyst
Job Purpose Statement
The Business Analyst will be responsible for applying business analysis tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in the Business Units in order to understand the structure, policies and operations, and to recommend technical solutions that enable the Business Units to achieve their goals. The role is responsible for carrying out business analysis tasks, including the identification and documentation of actionable user requirements in the form of a Business Requirements Document.

Key Accountabilities (Duties and Responsibilities)
Strategic Planning 30%
• Together with the architects, communicate with the heads of their business units to understand their local strategies, develop corresponding long-term plans for IT, negotiate these plans with local business leaders and document the agreed plans for IT as Considerations and Visions relevant for their business units

Initiative Delivery 70%
• Participate in Initiative Delivery Step 1: Initiatiation, which entails definition of the BRD (by BA), Solution Overview and Solution Designs (by Architects).
• Work with the teams that are writing business cases for new initiatives, participate in writing of RFP documents, work with product management teams to define solution features.
• Analysis and Documentation of Requirements- The role will be responsible for the analysis of Business Requirements and documenting Business, Requirements Documents (BRD) using documents from business teams such as Product Management, for example documents on Confluence, and screen mock-ups. The BRD will clearly define the requirements from a technical perspective, documenting details of new solution technical capabilities and/or how existing solutions will be modified to provide the desired technical capabilities. The role is also responsible for questioning – to a point of technical clarity – the need for the requests made in the business requirements
• Requirements assessment and validation: The role must test requirements (prior to implementation) to ensure that they meet stakeholder objectives and are technically sound. In order to do this, the role must develop the master test plan, which is developed to test the requirements, and which may also be responsible for Technical Quality Assurance once the final project deliverables are ready.
• Management, Communication and Control of Business Requirements: Using the Requirements Work Plan, the role shall manage the business analysis process; the role shall also manage changes to documents and requirements and the RWP; track status of tasks in the RWP; communicate with stakeholders such as the project manager, business sponsor, and others involved in the business analysis and project management process.
• Assists the architqects to write Solution Overviews and Solution Designs based on the BRD

Ideal Job Specifications
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field of study from a recognized university.
• At least 3 years background in software development inclusive of databases, applications, infrastructure, cloud technologies.
• Preferably certified in CBAP
• Familiarity with DevOps, Agile working and CICD
• Experience in writing formal Use Cases and other UML tools
• Experience in software development lifecycle management using waterfall, agile & hybrid methodologies.
• Excellent systems analytical and communication (written and verbal) skills along with meeting facilitation skills
• Ability to communicate and influence others.

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Management jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 22 May 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 14-05-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 14-05-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 14-05-2056
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