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.