Business Analyst Job Vacancy in Kenya

Kenya Orient Insurance Limited

Position Title: Business Analyst

Reports To: Assistant Manager – IT & Projects

Job Purpose: The position is responsible for providing business with technical analysis, planning and consulting for company solutions while utilizing and promoting IT processes and tools for cost-effective project delivery with business partners and technical development groups.

Managing all IT-related projects across the system life cycle.

Key Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities

  • Work with the Head of IT, portfolio representatives and vendors to ensure user requirements and user expectations are constantly managed during projects.
  • Assist in the establishment of policies, processes, procedures and standards.
  • Act as liaison between KOIL and developers to resolve product bugs and complete enhancement requests.
  • Leading UAT (User Acceptance Testing) efforts.
  • Participate in training design, document and deliver efforts with the project manager.
  • Assist with analysis and business requirements to develop detailed functional requirements including the scope of work.
  • Participate in process flow analysis and process redesign with the delivery team.
  • Conduct analysis of systems specifications and use diagramming tools to represent business processes.
  • Create objects, fields, workflows, security setup, configurations and triggers with support from development.
  • Work with the developers to create clear, concise and complete solution design specifications and documentation.
  • Produce technical specifications for custom development and systems integration requirements.
  • Help develop business continuity plans and disaster recovery related to IT system projects.
  • Give an analysis of the impact on the business of system changes and help create and implement plans for mitigating the unexpected within IT projects life cycle.
  • Develop and drive best practices for testing and delivery of defect-free code within the threshold.
  • Implementing various audit recommendations within IT projects design, development and implementation.
  • Managing and advising on projects related risks and ensuring compliance to IT security policies and procedures.
  • Updating of IT project risk register and risk log on all risk identified on new projects.
  • Ensure project development is within business requirements as captured under the Business Blue Prints (BBP).
  • Developing, deploying and maintaining projects performance monitoring and reporting systems for IT projects.
  • Ensuring effective, efficient and timely IT projects delivery and support services.
  • Delivering a stable and cost-effective service across the entire application architecture.
  • Ensuring the smooth running and optimal use of all ERP and other business systems within the organization.
  • Ensuring that the right type of business intelligence applications is implemented and availed to business users.

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s degree in IT or Business related course from a recognized university.
  • 4 years relevant experience in technology with a focus on business analysis and business processes.
  • Software Expertise in Business Intelligence, Oracle BI tools-TAG,ODBC,MS SQL,Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and Visio
  • Database expertise in MS SQL, Oracle and MySQL

How to Apply:

If you are interested in the position and have the required qualifications, skills and experience, kindly CLICK HERE and apply on or before Tuesday, February 7, 2023.