Business Analyst Internship

Britam Holding PLC is a leading diversified financial services group and is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The group has presence in seven Africa countries in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, Mozambique and Malawi.

Britam offers a wide range of financial products and services which include: Asset Management, Life Assurance, Retirement Planning, General Insurance, Health Insurance, Banking and Property Insurance.

Job Purpose:

Work within Betalab under the Partnership and Digital department to identify technical, process and product requirements, and align to the digital transformation strategy of the organization for implementation.
Work with the product & project managers to implement

Key responsibilities:

• Liaise with the Operating Companies’ and the Group to capture their ‘Business Requirements’ and to produce common Requirement Specifications & Use Cases to support the development and launch of innovative solutions and products.
• Conduct workshops with all participating Operating Companies and the Group to ensure Group-wide approval of all requirements specifications & use case material is achieved.
• Verify & approve all design solutions and test cases to ensure the business requirements have been met.
• Deliver improvements to the Business through standardizing Requirement Specifications, Use Cases, Test Cases and synergy identification documents.
• Consolidate and harmonize business requirements for developments resulting in cross development synergies.
• Provide Business Case input through financial details, prioritization and representing Operating Companies’ needs gathered via high level workshops.
• Support and comply to all IT Processes and deliverables.
• High level analysis of requests and classification into products/ Architecture Domains.
• Manage consolidation of requirements within each High Level Scope.
• Support and input into Concept Solution Design (CSD).
• High level analysis of requests and classification into architecture Domains.
• Support the review of both high level and low level design.
• Verify that requirements are testable and generate testing objectives, strategies, plans and scripts.
• Review and approve vendor test plans ensuring that the business requirement is met and tested.
• Review end user developed test cases for accuracy. Validate User Acceptance results conform to requirements.

Knowledge, experience, and qualifications required:

• Degree in Computer Science or technical-related field from an accredited institution.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Knowledge of business strategy and of business implications of IT/Service solutions roadmaps.
• Good communication and report writing skills.
• Business analysis skills and Knowledge of the software development and implementation cycle.