Overview:
Our client is a software widely used by Asset Management companies in South Africa and more recently in the UK, in line with the company’s international expansion strategy. The area where they are mostly used is within the research and investment process. The company has a young and dynamic team of skilled Data Engineers who assist clients from both a support and project perspective. In both cases, it involves interacting with the software (fundamentally a toolkit) which allows them to build customised solutions and models for clients based on their specific and unique data requirements. The company is looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join our implementation team which includes data engineers, business analysts and project managers.
Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
- Performing requirements analysis. This will involve working closely with both clients and the data engineering team to determine acceptable solutions
- Gathering critical information from various stakeholders and producing useful reports for clients and/or the data engineering team to implement the solution
- Understanding the detail but also being able to take a big picture approach
- This will allow the role to provide input into the priorities for any deliverables
- Liaising with Project Management to determine acceptable timeframes and priorities for delivery to the client
- Ensuring solutions built by the data engineering team meet the business needs and requirements
- This will involve testing the deliverable before handing it over to the client and obtaining their feedback at multiple stages within the project/deliverable life cycle
- High-level understanding of how solutions are being built and delivered
- Obtaining approval/sign-off from the client for the deliverables
- Ability to understand, simplify and easily explain complex problems
- The ability to comprehend complex valuation and risk calculations of financial instruments
Desired Soft Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – written and verbal
- This includes the ability to adapt how one communicates to different audiences
- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
- The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
- Excellent documentation skills.
- A creative thinker who can provide alternatives to existing or proposed solutions
- Proactive and dynamic
- Have a good grasp of the Asset Management industry
- Delivery focused
- High standards for the quality of work delivered
- Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
- Client-focused
- Ability to understand business processes and streamline/improve these
- Technical aptitude and drive to solve complex problems
Work Experience and Qualifications:
- A Bachelor (B.) of Commerce, B. Engineering or a B. Science degree from a recognized university.
- 3 – 5 Years’ work experience in a business analyst role
- 3 – 5 Years’ work experience in the Asset Management industry
- The data and terminology associated with Asset Management are understood
- The platform is primarily configured using Language, which is based on Excel’s functions
- Some exposure to IT and programming languages is required
- Technical/programming background would be a distinct advantage
- SQL knowledge would be an advantage
- A business analysis course would be an advantage
- Experience with entity-relationship models is beneficial