IT Business Analyst Career Jobs – DFCU Bank

Job Title:        IT Business Analyst
Organisation: DFCU Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Lead Systems Architect
About US:
DFCU
bank is a fast growing commercial bank offering a variety of innovative
products and services. DFCU Limited was started by the Commonwealth Development
Corporation (CDC) of the United Kingdom and the Government of Uganda through
the Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) under the name of Development Finance
Company of Uganda Limited. Later restructuring brought in DEG (of Germany) and
International Finance Corporation (IFC) as equal partners with CDC and UDC,
each having a 25% stake in the company. Its objective was to support long-term
development projects whose financing needs and risk did not appeal to the then
existing financial commercial lending institutions.
Job Summary: The IT Business Analyst will be responsible for
converting processes and business requirements into functional specifications
used for implementation and software modelling of new implementation requirements.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:  
  • Identify, assess, and document business
    requirements, recommending business priorities, and advising business on
    options, risks, and costs.
  • Keenly analyse impact of proposed solution
    across the business, develop use cases, functional specification and
    source to target mappings to explain/demonstrate business
    requirements/specifications to IT team, and contribute a business or
    process perspective during design reviews.
  • Ensure documentation of test plans and
    verification that the test plans are complete and comprehensive.
  • Actively facilitate implementation of new
    functionality through training sessions, demos, and the development of
    appropriate documentation.
  • Provide and/or create relevant test scenarios
    to be used in the application testing process. Evaluate existing and new
    software technologies in order to enhance business processes and
    contribute to strategic business growth.
  • Significantly contribute to the development
    of system integration test scripts and execute testing – all to ensure the
    testing results correspond to the business expectations.
  • Take part in the software development
    processes by prototyping new application requirements and designing new
    business process models.
  • Actively participate in technical
    improvements of existing business applications by identifying
    consolidation opportunities.
  • Prepare regular progress and final project
    reports.
  • Perform any other duties as assigned by the Lead
    Systems Architect.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant for the DFCU Bank IT Business
    Analyst job opportunity should hold a University degree in the area of
    Information Technology, Computer science, Information Systems,
    Engineering, or other mathematically inclined degree.
  • At least five years’ experience in software
    and product development.
  • Working knowledge and experience with at
    least two software prototyping languages such as Java, Python or C#.
  • Good track record of problem solving skills
    in IT related projects.
  • Proven ability to perform Test Driven
    Development to ensure robustness of new applications and transactional
    systems.
  • Ability to perform source reviews to identity
    functional glitches and software bugs is an added advantage.
  • Skills in User Interface Design and Testing
    using JQuery/JavaScript and modern browsers is an added advantage.
  • Previous experience with managing and administering
    Linux/Unix and Windows servers.
  • Prior exposure and experience in writing technical
    documentation is a must.
  • Ability to perform technical assessment of
    management information systems (review of needs, data quality and data
    security).
  • Strong understanding of database design and
    implementation techniques using MYSQL/MS SQL Server or Oracle.
  • Excellent analytical, attention to detail and
    project management skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
    and ability to work under pressure with minimum supervision.
  • Strong sense of responsibility, commitment
    and drive to consistently lead high quality standards of work.
How to Apply:
All
candidates who so wish to join the banking sector in the aforementioned
capacity are encouraged to send their applications with detailed CVs including
present position and copies of relevant professional/academic certificates to:
Vacanciesbank@dfcugroup.com
Deadline: 6th July 2016
NB: Therefore, if you do not hear from us by 20th
July 2016, consider your application unsuccessful.
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