Process Engineer - Contract
IQbusiness · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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- iqbusiness is seeking experienced Process Engineers for contract opportunities. The role is suited to hands-on process engineering specialists who can discover, model, design, and optimise end-to-end workflows—moving from current-state understanding to future-state process design with measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end process engineering across operational value chains, including process discovery, decomposition, and process architecture mapping.
- Produce high-quality "as-is" and "to-be" process models using recognised notations e.g., BPMN and modelling best practices, ensuring consistency and reuse.
- Facilitate process discovery workshops and stakeholder interviews to elicit tacit knowledge, validate process models, and confirm handovers, roles, and control points.
- Analyse workflow performance and process health using metrics and root-cause approaches; identify bottlenecks, constraints, and non-value activity.
- Apply continuous improvement and optimisation techniques e.g., Lean/value stream thinking to improve throughput, reduce waste, and enhance end-to-end customer/operational outcomes.
- Design future-state processes with clear success measures KPIs, governance, controls, and compliance considerations aligned to banking policies, SOPs, and regulatory constraints.
- Translate process designs into implementation-ready artefacts SOP alignment, RACI/role clarification, handover packs, and automation-ready workflow logic where relevant.
- Work closely with technology and delivery teams to align process flows with systems and information flows, supporting effective implementation and change adoption.
- Support business readiness activities including process training, operational embedding, and post-implementation refinement to ensure sustainable process performance.
Requirements
- Minimum of 7+ years' experience in business process engineering / process design / process optimisation within financial services banking preferred.
- Demonstrated expertise in modelling, designing and improving business processes and workflows, including stakeholder validation and continuous improvement practices.
- Strong capability in process modelling standards and notations BPMN preferred; UML/IDEF advantageous and the ability to produce consistent, high-quality process artefacts.
- Proven experience delivering "as-is" to "to-be" redesign, including defining measurable success criteria and implementing governance/control mechanisms.
- Hands-on optimisation toolkit: value stream mapping / bottleneck analysis / root-cause techniques and practical continuous improvement application.
- Strong facilitation, workshop leadership, and business writing skills suitable for regulated, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Working knowledge of how processes are supported by systems and information flows, and how to prepare designs for implementation and automation handover.
- Experience across project methodologies Agile, Waterfall, RUP with the ability to operate effectively in delivery environments without shifting the role into a pure BA function.
- Experience with repository-based modelling tools e.g., ARIS and delivery tooling e.g., JIRA/Confluence advantageous.
Education
- Matric required
- Relevant tertiary qualification Bachelor's degree, Diploma, or recognised certification from an accredited institution aligned to process engineering, industrial engineering, information systems, operations, or similar.
Please Note
- As all iqbusiness roles require honesty in the handling of or access to cash, finances, financial systems, or confidential information; our recruitment process requires that the following background checks be completed: credit, criminal, ID, and qualification verification.
- iqbusiness is committed to sustainable growth and transformation; we embrace diversity and employ previously disadvantaged individuals.