Business Analyst at a Top Tier Commercial Bank - Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners Limited

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners Limited - Our client, a top tier commercial bank, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Lagos

Job Overview

• We require the service of a highly skilled Business Analyst with Fin-Tech experience to join a dynamic team.
• The successful individual will conduct business analysis for new product releases and new projects.
• This individual will be involved in requirement analysis, documentation, scope validation, coordination and assessment of requests from stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the business problems/needs from business executives, product managers, operations managers and business users.
• Analyses and documents detailed business requirements including data and non-functional requirements.
• Document functional requirements utilizing various techniques including user stories, use cases, data flow diagrams, swim lanes diagrams, workflow diagrams, screen mock-ups, etc.
• Obtain sign-off against the business requirements.
• Communicate business requirements to development and quality assurance staff.
• Ensures traceability between business and functional requirements.
• Validate system design against requirements.
• Review and validate test cases produced by the quality assurance staff.
• Understand technology solutions to business problems and communicate the solution back to business.
• Conduct gap analysis and downstream impact exercises for system changes.
• Serves as the first point of contact for development staff to understand requirements specifically during the implementation/coding phase.

Qualifications and Experience

• BSc in Business, Engineering, IT or a related discipline
• 2-8 years working experience as a business analyst, preferably in a financial institution
• Relevant professional certifications
• Certifications include: ITIL, PMP, PRINCE 2, Professional Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Master, ISO 21500.

Skills / Competencies:

• Ability to make use of tools & techniques in requirement analysis or elicitation.
• Customer relationship management skills.
• Problem-solving/analytical skill
• Negotiation and conflict resolution skill
• Business analysis skills
• System analysis skills
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Creative and innovative skills
• Process involvement skills
• Adequate knowledge of information and knowledge management
• Initiative/Entrepreneurship/taking ownership
• Interpersonal skills
• Oral and written communication.

Application Closing Date
20th November, 2021.