GVA Partners Recruits IT Business Analyst

Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy formulation and implementation expertise and business operation improvement skills.

GVA Partners is recruiting to

Job Title: IT Business Analyst

Location: Lagos

Job Description:
Develop, document, and enhance technology for the firm’s Business initiatives as well as re-engineer and document IS-impacting cross-functional business processes

Job Functions

• Plays key role in the management and implementation of all Enterprise initiatives and IS solutions implementation
• Evaluates end-user requirements and constraints to get a thorough understanding and ensure they are met and Serves as a liaison between the customer and the development team
• Elicit requirements from business or technical customers and clarify business and user requirements
• Validate requirements with customer
  
• Perform requirements analysis and documentation as well as stakeholder analysis and management
• Identify improvements to existing solutions and business processes
• Conduct preliminary investigation of solution
• Facilitate Functional Joint Application design (JAD) sessions
• Document/review functional specification
• Review test plans and reports to ensure that all business requirements are met throughout the testing process
• Provide input to the development of end-user training content for use in instructor-led and technology-based training and support to end users after the delivery of a solution
• Coordinate and manage the implementation of selected business initiatives from concept to closing
• Manage vendor relations in the delivery of solutions

Job Experience;

• 3-4 years hands-on experience in a BA capacity
• Experience as a programmer will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrable experience in consistently delivering the above responsibilities across one or many industries to deliver improved business processes
• Experience in delivering simple and creative solutions to complex problems
• Demonstrable experience of writing requirements specifications for Information Systems, and a proven track record using the Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience of the whole project life cycle, with the ability to operate effectively from the initial conceptual design stage, through to system testing, and at each stage in between
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, modelling, verification, and product management skills
• Possesses knowledge of telecommunication IT infrastructure
• Possesses knowledge of enterprise resources planning
• Possesses technical knowledge such as databases, programming languages, system architecture, etc…
• Should know how to design and draw use case diagrams, business model diagrams, flowcharts etc.
  

Educational Qualification
A first degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

Competencies;

• Excellent client facing and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to translate technical concepts into common business language
• Ability to work independently and autonomously, with initiative to drive changes and
• decisions
• Organised and capable of managing competing priorities
• Well developed communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong problem solving, and logical and numerical reasoning capability
• Strong technical skills, including Excel, Word, Visio and Microsoft Project

Method of Application; Qualified and interested candidates should send their resumes to both: contact@gvapartners.com and recruitment@gvapartners.com
Please, state the position you are applying for as the subject of the email.

Application Deadline; 26th April 2013