Business Analyst at Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Lagos

Job Overview

• Our client requires the service of a highly skilled Business Analyst to join a dynamic team.
• The successful candidate 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.

Job Description
The business analyst is expected to perform the following tasks:

• Evaluate business requirements and serve as an internal consultant to the business during product and project initiation requiring new or modified applications.
• Identify and/or audit product proposals, business requirements, existing policies and technologies
• Articulate various aspects of CLIENT’s business and business drivers to other divisions
• Monitor business process improvement initiatives especially with regards to product development and continually find ways to streamline PPPs and align them to international best practices.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver functional requirements and business requirements documentation.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.

Requirements
The Business Analyst is expected to have the following educational qualification and experience:

• First Degree in Computer Science or related with at least 3-5 years work experience
• Proven experience in solution delivery within a complex environment
• Extensive experience in gathering and documenting systems and products requirements for information technology environments
• Ability to thoroughly think out and evaluate alternatives, innovative problem resolution, pro-active approach and initiative to resolve problems
• Ability to work with little direction and supervision, timely completion of projects, makes time for unplanned assignments, adapts to changing priorities
• Strong communication skills with the ability to relate to diverse groups of internal and external clients to include vendors, consultants, designers and developers
• Certifications include : ITIL, PMP, PRINCE 2, Professional Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Master, ISO 21500.

Application Closing Date
30th March, 2022.