Kenya Orient Insurance Limited
Job
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.
