Division Summary
Standard Bank is a firm believer in technical innovation, to help us guarantee exceptional client service and leading edge financial solutions. Our digital footprint reflects our commitment to the latest solutions, the best people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture. To help us drive our success into the future, we are looking for an experienced Feature / Solution Analyst our dedicated GIT Card and Payments at our JHB offices. Standard Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally.  It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system for 150 years, and now spans 16 countries across the African continent.

Job Purpose
The Feature Analyst is driven by delivering value in the form of business outcomes by collaborating within the feature team and key stakeholders.
Also, responsible for ensuring that requirements map back to the business value and that the entire feature team knows what and how they are implementing towards the desired requirementKey Responsibilities/Accountabilities
• Thorough understanding of Agile principles and the Scrum framework
• Provides the Scrum team with user stories and help the team define the business driven test cases
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong facilitation and oral and verbal communication skills.
• Helps the Product Owner discover the goals and needs of the customer and product
• Demonstrates functional and conceptual understanding of technical matters
o Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs
o Identify user journeys which map out how a user will go through the system
o Work ahead of the team to get clarity on some (not all) requirements before the next iteration
o Create relevant analysis documentation resulting from elicitation sessions.
o Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, /UX, technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements.
o Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops or procedures and map user stories ensuring they come together as a cohesive whole.
o Provide the Product Owner with key information for prioritisation and estimation.
o Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings (product backlog grooming, planning meeting, daily stand up, review meeting and retrospective).
o Obtain sign off during iteration review sessions.
o Manage the stories (in JIRA), ensuring that all requirements are loaded as stories, ensuring the stories are assigned to epics.
o Support showcasing stories to stakeholders
o Work very closely with user experience team to ensure that processes, wireframes and content are optimally intuitive to end-users

Preferred Qualification and Experience
Formal minimum qualification:
• Appropriate tertiary qualification aligned to Agile methodologies; or
• 3 year degree in Business Analysis, Project Management or related field.
Required Post graduate qualification:
• Senior post graduate qualification

Other required knowledge:
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodology

Knowledge/Technical Skills/Expertise
Practical experience in working in a variety of business areas within IT. Understanding and experience of the various disciplines within IT and how they relate to each other. 3 - 4 years
Experience with requirements elicitation, gathering, documentation and management 5 -7 years

Competencies
This competency serves to aid effective problem solving and requires one to be effective at probing and analysing situations efficiently and accurately. This competency is important because, without sufficient analysis, effective solutions become less probable. In addition, poor analysis makes it more likely that individuals become confused and anxious, bored, error prone or overwhelmed by detail, which also impacts negatively on successful problem solving.(Interpreting, linking, and analysing information in order to understand issues).