Job title: Business Analyst Graduate
Location: Centurion
Salary: Market related CTC
Company Overview
Lightstone is an intelligent solutions company with strong, industry-specific expertise and core capabilities in data management, GIS, analytics and software development.
We specialise in delivering integrated, online knowledge solutions, batch and real-time data quality solutions, and a broad range of geo-spatial and analytic projects to a range of property, auto, business to consumer, government and financial services clients. We hire exceptional people and provide them with the environment where they can excel. Our non-corporate culture encourages flexibility, collaboration and innovation.
We pride ourselves on our core values of ‘Encourage Participation’, ‘Respond to changing needs’ and ‘Win together’ which are reflected in each development, project, product or service we undertake to deliver.
Role overview
We are looking for a self-motivated, independent thinking, detail orientated individual that is passionate about investigating and unpacking solutions to complex problems.
Excellent communication skills are a must with the ability to accurately articulate business needs into user stories using your aptitude for problem solving.
The successful candidate must be willing to adapt and grow with the business as well as ‘roll up their sleeves’ and get involved in all aspects of the day-to-day business function.
Qualifications
- Computer science or Business Administration Degree
Experience
- Required
- A mindset for demystifying the complex
- Ability to adapt and embrace change
- Ability to turn chaos into clear actionable insights for everyone
- A knack for making people feel heard
- Must be curious
- Must be brave – have the courage to challenge
- Logical thinker
- A Let’s fix this” mentality
- Advantageous
- Knowledge about Agile Methodology, Scrum
- Business process mapping /modelling
- Facilitation skills
- Software development background
Key Responsibilities
- Create and maintain user requirements in the form of user stories
- Create mock-ups to support business requirements
- Create workflow and data flow diagrams
- Work with the QA team to create user acceptance requirements
- Work and collaborate closely with the Product Owner, the developmentteam to meet sprint goals
- Conduct workshops with the audience where necessary to elicitrequirements
- Convert high level business requirements received from the ProductOwner into user stories
- Assist in refining the product backlog to the appropriate level of detail tomove backlog items to a ready status
- Support the team in preparing for sprint reviews
- Assist in user acceptance testing
Non-technical skills
- Strong Analytical and problem solving skills
- Curious
- Passionate about quality
- Ability to work within a distributed environment
- Ability to manage and effectively work with various personality types
- Positive outlook on life, work, and other people
- Attentive to detail
- Excited about learning, pushing technical limits and finding newsolutions
- Able to think creatively and innovatively
- Open to accepting and learning from constructive criticism
