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Mid-Level Business Analyst

Datafin It Recruitment

South Africa · On-site Full-time Mid Level 3w ago

About the role

About

A fast-growing AI Product and InsurTech business is building next-generation AI agents that operate inside real-world business environments, handling live customer interactions, automating workflows, and delivering measurable commercial outcomes within a regulated insurance environment. This role is for a Mid-Level Business Analyst who can operate confidently in ambiguity, translating high-level business vision into structured, build-ready specifications for engineering teams.

This is not a traditional documentation role, but rather a highly analytical, product-focused role suited to someone who enjoys solving complex business problems, challenging assumptions, and shaping AI-enabled products from concept through to delivery.

Duties

  • Lead business discovery sessions with stakeholders to uncover true business needs and operational pain points.
  • Map current-state business processes and design improved AI-enabled workflows.
  • Own requirements gathering from discovery through to delivery, testing, and acceptance.
  • Translate executive vision and business objectives into structured, build-ready specifications.
  • Write detailed Product Requirement Documents PRDs, user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
  • Define system inputs, outputs, acceptable behaviour ranges, human intervention points, and escalation workflows.
  • Identify edge cases, failure modes, exception handling, and operational risks as part of requirements definition.
  • Challenge assumptions using data, process analysis, and stakeholder interrogation.
  • Run structured workshops and facilitate alignment across conflicting stakeholder priorities.
  • Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, retrospectives, and Agile delivery ceremonies.
  • Maintain requirements traceability throughout the full product lifecycle.
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Leadership teams to ensure successful delivery.

Requirements

Business Analysis

  • Minimum 3+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, or Product Analyst.
  • Proven experience owning delivery from discovery through implementation.
  • Strong experience gathering, analysing, documenting, and validating business requirements.
  • Ability to work confidently with vague, evolving, or incomplete requirements.

Process & Documentation

  • Strong process mapping skills using BPMN, UML, or similar methodologies.
  • Experience writing PRDs, user stories, functional specifications, workflows, and acceptance criteria.
  • Experience maintaining requirements traceability throughout delivery.

Agile Delivery

  • Strong experience working in Agile delivery environments.
  • Exposure to sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and delivery ceremonies.

Data & Analysis

  • Ability to query, interpret, and validate data using SQL, Excel, BI tools, or similar.
  • Strong analytical thinking with the ability to challenge assumptions using data.

Stakeholder Management

  • Strong facilitation, workshop leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Comfortable challenging executives, business owners, and operational teams when clarity is required.
  • Ability to navigate competing priorities and conflicting business objectives.

Advantageous

  • Experience defining requirements for AI products, automation platforms, recommendation engines, decision-support systems, or non-deterministic products.
  • Experience designing workflows where human review, exception handling, and escalation paths are required.
  • Exposure to regulated industries such as Insurance, Financial Services, Healthcare, or Compliance-driven environments.
  • Experience with MoSCoW prioritisation or similar structured prioritisation frameworks.
  • Product delivery experience within startup, scale-up, or product-led environments.

Attributes

  • Highly analytical and naturally curious.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity.
  • Structured thinker with strong commercial awareness.
  • Confident challenging assumptions and asking difficult questions.
  • Strong written communication and documentation skills.
  • Comfortable working with uncertainty, complexity, and evolving requirements.
  • Delivery-focused and solutions-driven.

Skills

AIBPMNBI toolsExcelSQLUML

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