Senior Business Analyst Manager At Equity Bank Kenya

Job Purpose:
In this supervisory capacity, the role holder will lead a team of Sr. Business Analysts and work closely with project sponsors, stakeholders, and project teams to gather, analyse, and prioritize requirements for various IT projects. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership capabilities, exceptional communication skills, and a comprehensive understanding of both business processes and IT solutions.
The Sr. Business Analyst will proactively explore emerging technologies to optimize business processes and play a critical role in ensuring IT's alignment with business requirements. He/she will act as a liaison between specific business units or subsidiaries and IT services, coordinating operational activities to maximize the value provided by systems to the respective business unit or subsidiary.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead a team of Business Analysts in collaborating with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision
Oversee the identification of project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics
Coordinate requirements elicitation sessions via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, etc.
Identify and establish scope parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
Work with stakeholders and project teams to prioritize elicited requirements.
Research, review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
Maintain an understanding of business processes and their IT needs
Maintain an awareness of current and emerging technologies
Identify opportunities where business objectives can be met by using IT
Develop and manage relationships with business and subsidiary management and assist all levels within the business area to define their overall business requirements.
Monitor specific functionality build, ensuring requirements, budget and calendar are adhered to.
Support on acceptance and user testing
Voice concerns and/or satisfaction on the user community with IT Service effectively creating a continuous improvement circle.
Coordinate communication strategies with end-users and business community
Draw out business prioritization process – assist in making the case for funding and supporting stakeholder discussion leading to approval

Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor's degree in business or ICT related discipline from a recognized university
Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) is a plus.

Experience:
Minimum -5 years as a Business Analyst Manager; Senior Business Analyst, Senior Process Analyst or IT Project Manager
Minimum 3 years' experience as an IT Business Analyst or IT Project Manager

Certifications & Skills:
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification
ITIL, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, PRINCE2 certification is an added advantage
Knowledge of a mainstream project methodologies and frameworks (e.g. Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Prince2 etc.) is an advantage