Senior Business Analyst

Location:

Johannesburg, ZA

Date: 23 Jan 2026

Reference: 143784

Job Classification

Business Analyst III(143784)

TA: Luthando Bower

Closing date: 3 February 2026

Job Family

Project, Process and Product

Career Stream

Process

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

To enable and drive effective change by analysing business needs, defining current and future states, and translating strategy into actionable requirements. The role applies business analysis and product ownership principles within an agile framework to deliver well‑scoped solutions to complex challenges. Working independently while partnering closely with Product Designers, Business Architects, QA, Business Data Managers and other stakeholders, the role ensures requirements alignment across the value chain and supports successful strategy‑to‑execution outcomes.

Job Responsibilities

Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.
Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs.
Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement
Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution, and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on Nedbank's delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices.
Analyse and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.
Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly.
Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution.
Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives and dependencies across projects.
Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect.
Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesise the data to articulate requirements.
Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialisation.
Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritisation, WSJF, and increment planning and drive Devops and Built-in quality principles.
Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs.
Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies and enterprise delivery up to senior level.
Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners.
Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration.
Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA , SAFe Certification

Preferred Certifications

IIBA endorsed

Minimum Experience Level

5 - 8 years BA experience on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
Manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, industry exposure.
Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques. Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Research methodology
BA Body Of Knowledge
Business writing skills
Agile Concepts
Data and Business analysis
Process Engineering Skills
Global business analysis Trend
Business Analysis Descipline , Techniques and Practices
Microsoft Office Product

Behavioural Competencies

Decision Making
Building partnerships
Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
Initiating Action
Continuous Improvement
Customer Orientation

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Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566