Business Analyst

BECOME PART OF THE TEAM THAT IS CHANGING THE WAY BUSINESSES ACROSS THE WORLD BUILD SOFTWARE. SOVTECH IS A CUSTOM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY WITH TEAMS BASED IN JOHANNESBURG, LONDON, AND CAPE TOWN.

We invest in people who can see the future & who work hard to achieve it. SovTech has a young, dynamic, and fast-growing team. We’re only looking for outstanding people – those unique individuals who are brilliant, are always happy to help, socialize, get involved, work hard, and enjoy what they do! We have a continuous learning culture that allows our people to grow and develop in the opportunities across our various teams.

About SovTech:

We design, build, deploy and maintain innovative custom software that allows our clients to start, run and grow world-class businesses. Our teams are globally distributed so we have adopted a Fluid approach to remote vs office-based work, encouraging freedom, fluidity of working location, collaboration & exploration. At SovTech, teams define their remote days to encourage collaboration & knowledge sharing whilst still creating the flexibility of remote working.

Our Company Values (The SovTech Spex):

#Smile #Adapt #Results #Tech #Innovate #Partnership #Sorted #Worldclass #Blitz #GiveASh*t

About the Role:

• Build and maintain relationships with partners, working with them to optimise and enhance our integration
• Develop configuration specifications and business analysis requirements
• Perform quality assurance and define reporting and alerting requirements
• Participate in designing, documenting, and maintaining system processes
• Explore common sources of technical issues or questions and make recommendations to the product team
• Interact with the product team to share key insights and findings
• Search for ways to improve monitoring, discover issues, and deliver better value to the customer
• The initiative, diligence, self-starter, problem solver skills will be required. To meet expectations, the individual will have to solve complex issues across multiple systems, clients, and technologies.
• The nature of the queries will all be related to financial products traded so an understanding of this is essential.
• Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on, and resolved in a timely manner. 
• Manage issues with vendors, participate and provide input on problem resolution as well as root cause identification.
• Communicates and applies project standards and consistently delivers high-quality services to our clients.
• Participate and provide input for problem resolution and root cause identification as well as communicating with users to collect information about production issues.
• Deployments/release management which will require out-of-hours support and standby support

What we are looking for:

• SovTech's Enterprise team is looking for a Technical Business Analyst to work on a project with one of SA's largest investment banks. To be responsible for building and managing strong partnerships with business - Managing relationships across various technology departments to co-ordinate and communicate tasks, milestones, and change requests- Developing detailed functional specifications, use case documents and data/process flow diagrams to perform in-depth business analysis- Preparing project plan and owning the tracking of milestones against the planned roadmap- Providing oversight to QA team and collaborating on test strategy, test case execution & validation - Supporting full life-cycle for new projects/BAU’s (analysis, design, development, testing, implementation), as well as providing assistance in resolution of production problems. . 

What Tech would you be working with?

• SQL
• JIRA & Confluence

What we can tell you about our culture:

Have a look through our Careers page: Join Our Team, Help Build The Future. Become part of the team that is changing the way businesses across the world build software.

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Job requirements

ESSENTIAL TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

• IT degree or Diploma
• 5+ years of experience as a Business analyst
• 2+ years of SQL scripting experience, i.e. technical exposure is a must – the ability to read logs and SQL scripts; ability to query a DB; etc.
• Ability to run projects/BAU’s
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, including efficient time management.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Financial markets exposure – understands Capital markets products and instruments (Equities, Derivatives markets both local and international)
• Architecture/integration experience
• Various Fix Protocol Knowledge
• JAVA or any coding language (preferable)
• Attention to detail and thoroughness
• Technical understanding of securities products would be an advantage