Business Analyst / Product Owner

Reference: NB 6632

Consultant:  Nine Broodryk

Description:

• Establish relationships with stakeholders across business functions.
• Work with design resources and/or wire-framing solutions.
• Create user stories with robust acceptance criteria to capture the needs of stakeholders.
• Lead backlog grooming sessions to gather stakeholder feedback.
• Contribute to retrospective sessions.
• Assist in creating and maintaining product and process documentation.

Qualifications:

• Previous experience as a Business Analyst/Product Owner.
• Proficient in creating use cases, user stories, process flows, swim lanes, wireframes,  activity diagrams and Gantt charts
• Ability to work well with the product development team (Developers, QA, Designers and  other BAs) following agile methodologies.
• Comfortable collaborating with the business stakeholders to understand their processes and priorities to help identify and deliver solutions in a timely fashion.
• Understanding of business analysis, Incremental change prioritisation and delivery.
• Capturing ambiguous requirements.
• Experience leading and facilitating user story grooming and prioritisation sessions.
• Ability to naturally develop relationships, communicate, engage and influence.
• Experience leading and facilitating user story grooming and prioritisation sessions.
• Understanding of project management processes including writing business cases, project definition documents and project approval
• Experience in change management, risk management, benefits management and stakeholder management
• Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence or similar.

How to Apply:

• Email your comprehensive CV to exceedhr@exceed.co.za.
• If you are already registered, please forward your CV and the relevant reference number to the consultant with whom you are currently registered to avoid duplicity on our system.
• We reserve the right to only conduct interviews with candidates of choice.
• Applicants who have not received feedback within 30 days from the closing date must please accept their application as unsuccessful.