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Business Analyst (Senior)

JohannesburgIndependent Contractor AgreementSeniorHybrid

Responsible for identifying, analysing, qualifying, prioritising, and supporting the delivery of AI, Generative AI, Automation, and Digital Transformation initiatives across the Group. Serves as the bridge between business stakeholders and AI delivery teams, translating business challenges into clear requirements, measurable outcomes, and successful AI-enabled solutions. Requires strong business analysis capability combined with practical AI literacy, including understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, Microsoft Copilot, AI Agents, Prompt Engineering, and Responsible AI principles. Focused on business value realisation, ensuring AI investments solve real business problems, improve customer experiences, increase productivity, reduce costs, and support strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

AI Opportunity Discovery

  • Conduct AI opportunity discovery workshops with business stakeholders
  • Collaborate with business units to identify automation and AI use cases
  • Analyse current business processes and identify optimisation opportunities
  • Assist in creating AI business cases and value assessments
  • Maintain the AI opportunity pipeline and use-case backlog
  • Perform initial value, complexity, feasibility, risk, and dependency assessments

Requirements Engineering

  • Gather, analyse, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements
  • Create BRDs, Business Specifications, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Process Maps, Use Cases, and Journey Maps
  • Translate business needs into actionable delivery requirements for AI and automation teams
  • Ensure requirements align with business outcomes, governance needs, and measurable KPIs

AI Product & Delivery Support

  • Support Agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews
  • Work with AI Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, and business stakeholders
  • Participate in solution design sessions to validate business fit and user experience
  • Coordinate UAT and support defect resolution
  • Support solution deployment, hypercare, and adoption activities

AI Literacy & Innovation Enablement

  • Develop working knowledge of AI, Machine Learning, Generative AI, and Conversational AI
  • Understand LLMs, AI Agents, RAG, vector search, knowledge bases, and prompt engineering at a practical level
  • Use Microsoft Copilot and related tools to improve productivity and support use-case discovery
  • Not expected to build AI models or write production code, but must understand practical business application

Value Realisation & Benefits Tracking

  • Define business KPIs for AI initiatives; establish baselines and targets
  • Track benefits post-implementation: productivity gains, cost reduction, CX improvement, revenue impact, adoption rates
  • Support reporting of AI initiative outcomes to leadership forums

AI Governance & Responsible AI

  • Ensure AI initiatives follow approved governance, risk, and compliance requirements
  • Support risk assessments, intake reviews, and approval processes
  • Identify privacy, security, regulatory, operational, and reputational risks
  • Document human oversight, escalation paths, and audit requirements
  • Promote responsible AI practices and safe usage of approved tools

Experience and education

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Analysis, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Commerce, Business Management, or related field
  • 5+ years Business Analysis experience
  • Experience delivering digital transformation initiatives within Agile delivery teams
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills
  • Experience developing BRDs, BRSs, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and test scenarios
  • Preferred certifications: ECBA, CBAP, PMI-PBA, or Agile Business Analysis certification
  • Preferred: Microsoft AI Fundamentals (AI-900), Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), or Copilot fundamentals training
  • Advantageous: exposure to Responsible AI, Data Governance, Product Ownership, or Design Thinking training
  • Preferred: experience in AI, automation, analytics, digital platforms, fintech, telecommunications, or banking; exposure to Copilot, AI agents, GenAI use cases, Azure AI services, or Power Platform; experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Miro, Visio, or Power BI
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