Business Analyst
Discovery Limited · Johannesburg, Gauteng
Posted 2 November 2026
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- The Business Analyst role is responsible for independently eliciting, analysing, and translating business requirements into functional and product specifications, validating delivered solutions, and acting as a trusted consultant to business stakeholders across integrated systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a consultant to business stakeholders, challenging assumptions and clarifying intent.
- Develop business cases aligned to strategic and operational objectives.
- Produce and validate Customer and Product Requirements Specifications.
- Design functional solutions considering system interfaces and dependencies.
- Define and execute testing approaches, supporting UAT and sign-off.
- Manage project documentation, risks, scope, and delivery tracking.
- Review junior analyst artefacts and provide validation feedback.
- Support live environments through incident analysis and stakeholder communication.
Skills
Requirements Elicitation
- Business Requirements Definition
- Business Process Modelling
- Solution Design, Implementation and Support
- Testing and Test Preparation
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Problem solving
- Project Management
- Presentation & Facilitation
- Process Mapping
Qualifications
- Matric.
- Informatics or Other Relevant Degree.
Certifications
- Advanced UML course
- BPMN Course
- PM training or qualification
Work Experience
- 3+ years Business Analysis experience.
- Business experience & product knowledge an advantage
- Exposure within a BI environment
Tools
- Enterprise architect
- SoupUI (SOAP) / REST client (JSON)
- Power BI
- Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence)
- Figma
- Postman
Technologies
- SQL (Oracle, MSSQL and IBM Infosphere)
- UML
- XML
- Software architecture
- Data modelling techniques