Business Analysis Practice Lead

<p><img id="Picture_x0020_1" src="https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/dd82a348/461743ac-ca78-42fa-8634-a.png" style="height:255.0px;width:600.0px"></p> <div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Purpose</b></H2> </div><div><p>The ePABA Practice is seeking an experienced Business Analysis professional to strengthen and evolve the Business Analysis capability across Nedbank.</p> <p>The role is positioned within the ePABA Practice and is not dedicated to a specific project, squad, product, or delivery team.</p> <p>The successful candidate will be responsible for advancing Business Analysis standards, frameworks, governance, methods, capability development, quality assurance, and thought leadership across the organisation.</p> <p>This role requires a deep understanding of Business Analysis principles and practical experience across all BABOK knowledge areas, combined with modern Business Analysis capabilities such as Agile delivery, AI-enabled analysis, data-driven decision making, digital collaboration, design thinking, and prototyping.</p> <p>The role operates as a trusted advisor and capability enabler, supporting practitioners, leaders, and stakeholders across the enterprise.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>What You Will Be Accountable For</b></H2> </div><div><p><strong>Practice Development &amp; Governance</strong></p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Develop and maintain Business Analysis frameworks, standards, methodologies and guidelines.</li> <li>Define and continuously improve BA governance processes.</li> <li>Establish and maintain quality assurance mechanisms for BA deliverables.</li> <li>Facilitate Practice reviews and maturity assessments.</li> <li>Drive consistent adoption of BA standards across the organisation.</li> <li>Identify and introduce leading Business Analysis practices</li> </ul> <p><strong>Methodology &amp; Ways of Working</strong></p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Establish standards for: <ul type="circle"> <li>Discovery</li> <li>Requirements management</li> <li>User stories</li> <li>Business rules</li> <li>Feature definition</li> <li>Acceptance criteria</li> <li>Backlog management</li> <li>Solution assessment</li> </ul> </li> <li>Promote effective use of: <ul type="circle"> <li>Jira</li> <li>Confluence</li> <li>Miro</li> <li>BPMN</li> <li>AI-enabled analysis techniques</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Modern Business Analysis</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drive adoption of modern Business Analysis practices including: <ul> <li>Artificial Intelligence for Business Analysis</li> <li>Prompt Engineering</li> <li>AI-assisted requirements analysis</li> <li>Process Mining</li> <li>Data Analysis and Insights</li> <li>Design Thinking</li> <li>Customer Journey Mapping</li> <li>Service Design</li> <li>Digital Prototyping</li> <li>Product Thinking</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Practice Support Services</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide expert advisory services to: <ul> <li>Business Analysts</li> <li>Product Owners</li> <li>Practice Leads</li> <li>Delivery Leaders</li> <li>Business Stakeholders</li> </ul> </li> <li>Support complex initiatives through: <ul> <li>Framework guidance</li> <li>Facilitation</li> <li>Requirements review</li> <li>Quality assurance reviews</li> <li>Coaching and mentoring</li> </ul> </li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Minimum Experience Requirements</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>10+ years Business Analysis experience.</li> <li>Minimum 3 years within a Centre of Excellence, Practice, Capability, Governance or Professional Services environment.</li> <li>Experience building or improving Business Analysis standards and methods.</li> <li>Experience mentoring and coaching Business Analysts.</li> <li>Experience facilitating Communities of Practice.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Knowledge</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li> <p>Demonstrated practical application of all BABOK Knowledge Areas:</p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring</li> <li>Elicitation and Collaboration</li> <li>Requirements Life Cycle Management</li> <li>Strategy Analysis</li> <li>Requirements Analysis and Design Definition</li> <li>Solution Evaluation</li> </ul> </li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Tools</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Required: <ul> <li>Jira</li> <li>Confluence</li> <li>Miro</li> <li>Visio</li> <li>Microsoft 365</li> <li>Co-pilot/Claude</li> </ul> </li> <li>Advantageous: <ul> <li>ARIS</li> <li>Figma</li> <li>Power BI</li> <li>Azure DevOps</li> </ul> </li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Qualifications</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Required: <ul> <li>Degree or Advanced Diploma</li> </ul> </li> <li>Preferred: <ul> <li>CBAP</li> <li>CCBA</li> <li>AAC</li> </ul> </li> <li>Advantageous: <ul> <li>TOGAF</li> <li>Business Architecture</li> <li>Lean Six Sigma</li> <li>BPM Certification</li> <li>AI Certification</li> </ul> </li> </ul></div></div></div><p style="line-height:18.9px"><img alt="" height="228" src="https://rmkcdn.successfactors.com/dd82a348/61ad7a3f-eb85-4980-a04c-e.jpg" style="height:75.0px;width:600.0px" width="245"></p> <p style="line-height:18.9px">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p style="line-height:18.9px"><span style="color:#006341"><em><b>Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566 </b></em></span></p>