With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Sapiens/IDIT experience must have Bachelor’s degree and /or relevant advanced diplomas.Professional Business Analysis certification such as IIBA, CBAP, or equivalent. Minimum 3-5 years’
Business Analysis experience, with a strong track record in complex environments. Demonstrated experience working on integration heavy, API driven, and multi system projects.
Hands on exposure to backend service interactions, data validation, and technical solution discussions. Proven ability to collaborate with developers, architects, and cross functional teams on solution design. Experience producing high quality requirements, functional specifications, and end to end process documentation.
The Specialist Business Analyst is responsible for identifying business needs, analysing and documenting requirements, and recommending solutions that deliver measurable value to stakeholders. The role acts as a strategic liaison between business and technology teams, ensuring solutions align with enterprise objectives and support end to end delivery.
The role requires deeper technical capability, including support for integrations, backend services, and system to system interactions, enabling the analyst to contribute directly to technical feasibility, data validation, and solution design
Job Description
Business Needs Identification:
Identify and clarify business problems or opportunities that align with strategic objectives through consultation with stakeholders and analysis of business context.
Requirements Elicitation and Analysis:
Lead the elicitation of complex requirements using a variety of techniques and translate them into clear, structured documentation such as business cases, business requirements, and user stories.
Solution Assessment and Recommendation:
Evaluate potential solution options and recommend the most suitable one based on feasibility, cost, impact, and alignment with business goals.
Stakeholder Engagement:
Collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups, including senior executives, to ensure alignment and shared understanding of requirements and proposed solutions.
Process and Business Architecture Analysis:
Map current and future state business capabilities and processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, or opportunities in business and technology.
Requirements Lifecycle Management:
Maintain and manage changes to requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring traceability and validation of business needs.
Strategic Alignment and Impact Assessment:
Ensure that business requirements and proposed solutions support the enterprise and business strategy, and assess the impact of change across people, processes, and systems.
Mentoring and Quality Assurance:
Provide guidance to junior analysts and support the continuous improvement of business analysis standards and deliverables as part of our Community of Practice.
Solution Validation and Benefits Realisation:
Work with business and technical teams to confirm that solutions meet the intended business needs and support benefits tracking post-implementation.
Technical Skills
understanding of API behaviour, integration patterns, and system flows.
Ability to perform data mapping and field‑level analysis.
Understanding of system architecture, components, and interactions.
Ability to engage in technical feasibility discussions with developers and architects
Required Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree and /or relevant advanced diplomas.
Professional Business Analysis certification such as IIBA, CBAP, or equivalent
Minimum 3-5 years’
Business Analysis experience, with a strong track record in complex environments. Demonstrated experience working on integration‑heavy, API‑driven, and multi‑system projects.
Hands‑on exposure to backend service interactions, data validation, and technical solution discussions.
Proven ability to collaborate with developers, architects, and cross‑functional teams on solution design.
Experience producing high‑quality requirements, functional specifications, and end‑to‑end process documentation.
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
Top Skills
What We Do
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond. We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
