Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Lead Systems Architect
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 support the Bank
through the conversion of processes and business requirements into functional
specifications used for implementation and guide the team in charge of
implementation.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify,
assess, and document business requirements, recommending business
priorities, and advising business on options, risks, and costs. - Carry
out research to determine if solutions to business requirements currently
exist within or outside the business unit, and if not, whether new
solutions are feasible. - Routinely
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. - Support
the Testing Team by ensuring requirements documentation can be easily
translated into test plans, and ensure that the proper testing plans have
been completed – this will, at times, include creating the test plans for
the project. - Actively
facilitate implementation of new functionality through training sessions,
demos, and the development of appropriate documentation. - Provide
and/or create relevant test scenarios for the testing team. Work with test
team to develop system integration test scripts and execute testing – all
to ensure the testing results correspond to the business expectations. - Support
teams to ensure requirements are translated to test plans and implement
new functionalities by running training sessions, demos and documentation
development. - Actively
participate in Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis and High Risk reviews. - Participate
in Testing, Implementation Planning and Execution of complex applications. - Translate
business requirements into IT application - Perform
any other duties as assigned by the Lead Systems Architect.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
- The
ideal candidate should preferably hold a University degree in the fields
of Information Technology, Business or Finance. - Possess
the ability to perform information management assessments (review of
needs, data quality, data security, etc.) and create detailed strategy and
roadmaps surrounding data warehousing, integration, and/or analytics. - Detailed
knowledge and understanding of database design and implementation
techniques on MS SQL Server or Oracle required. - Excellent
analytical, organizational and core project management skills and
attention to detail. - Strong
interpersonal, communication skills and ability to consistently work under
pressure. - Strong
sense of responsibility, commitment and drive to consistently lead high
quality standards of work. - Excellent
communication and writing skills in English
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
NB: Therefore, if you do not hear from us by Friday,
10th July 2015, consider your application unsuccessful
Deadline: Friday, 26th
June 2015
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