SATIC Business Analyst

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future. 

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society. 

By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people’s lives. 

We have a number of exciting opportunities across a range of roles and disciplines to join our expanding Guidewire/Insurance team. As a Guidewire Business Analyst, you will be responsible for participating in business requirements review meetings and working with the Product Owner to ensure that requirements for Guidewire projects are captured as user stories that are prioritised and in a ready state. Ready means that stories must be immediately actionable. The development team must be able to determine what needs to be done and the amount of work required to complete the story. 

What will you do? 

• Bridge the gap between the business and technical teams, by working closely with the Product Owner to define and communicate the vision and scope for the product or project.  

• Work with the Product Owner to stock the product or project backlog to ensure that it represents the overall scope of the project. 

• Work with the Product Owner on a continuous basis to refine the backlog, by organising/ prioritising stories, splitting epics into stories that can be delivered within a sprint, and by getting selected stories into a ready state by capturing detailed user requirements before sprint planning. 

• Participate in quality assurance activities, including working with the Test Analyst to establish proper test coverage and traceability to requirements, and with the Product Owner to demonstrate developed functionality, and assist with user acceptance testing. 

• Work with Test Analyst to assist and monitor User Acceptance Testing 

• Participate in daily standup meetings, sprint planning and retrospective 

• Participate in POC to support new opportunities. 

• Guide and mentor junior Business Analysts. 

• Contribute to continuous improvement of development processes. 

What are we looking for? 

• Requirements Gathering: Engage with stakeholders to identify, document, and prioritize business needs through interviews, workshops, and surveys. 

• User Story Development: Translate business requirements into detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team. 

• Process Mapping: Create visual representations of business processes to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement. 

• Stakeholder Communication: Function as a liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, ensuring clear and consistent communication. 

• Sprint Planning and Review: Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews to ensure alignment with business objectives. 

• Testing and Validation: Collaborate with QA teams to ensure that delivered solutions meet business requirements and function as intended. 

• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and contribute to the ongoing enhancement of our Scrum practices.  

• Experience in Requirement and Ticket Management tools like Jira and Confluence. 

• Knowledge of the AGILE methodology/Scaled Agile Framework, SDLC processes is essential. 

• Training will be provided.

What is nice to have? 

• Guidewire Business Analysis Certification on current solutions 

• Working experience in at least one of the Guidewire InsuranceSuite products (PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, BillingCenter or Digital Portal) from a functional perspective. 

• Business Analysis Certification (IIBA Certified Business Analyst) 

• Prior client facing experience 

• Azure/AWS Cloud experience 

What’s in it for you? 

We're exceptionally passionate about providing you with the necessary skills, experience, and training to help you develop both personally and professionally. As a PwC employee you will be

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