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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

Functional Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

  • R Undisclosed
  • Contract Intermediate position
  • Johannesburg
  • Posted 04 Sep 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2644681 - Ref 878000023724179
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About the position

The Analyst acts as the link between the business and technical delivery teams. The role is responsible for understanding business requirements and translating them into clear, practical functional and technical specifications that can be developed, tested and delivered.


The Analyst owns requirements from initial analysis through to delivery, testing and business acceptance, ensuring that solutions meet the agreed business needs and minimise rework.


Key Responsibilities


  • Engage with business stakeholders to understand and document requirements.
  • Facilitate workshops, interviews and process walkthroughs.
  • Analyse business needs and identify gaps, risks, dependencies and assumptions.
  • Document current and future-state business processes.
  • Ensure requirements are clear, complete and achievable.
  • Develop functional specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Document business rules, process flows, validations, calculations, roles and permissions.
  • Define exception scenarios and expected system behaviour.
  • Obtain business approval and sign-off on requirements before development.
  • Translate functional requirements into clear technical specifications.
  • Document system changes, data requirements and integrations.
  • Define API/interface requirements and data mappings where applicable.
  • Document non-functional requirements such as performance, security, availability and audit requirements.
  • Work with developers and solution architects to confirm technical feasibility.
  • Support development teams by clarifying requirements and intended system behaviour.
  • Maintain requirements traceability from business need through to delivery and testing.
  • Support backlog refinement and ensure requirements are ready for development.
  • Develop or review test scenarios and support SIT and UAT.
  • Assist with defect investigation and resolution.
  • Support release, implementation and handover activities.
  • Communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
  • Assess the impact of proposed changes on scope, cost, timelines, risks and dependencies.
  • Maintain documentation, version control and change history.
  • Ensure stakeholders remain aligned on requirements, priorities and agreed solutions.
 Key Deliverables


  • Business requirements documentation
  • Functional Specification Documents (FSD)
  • Technical Specification Documents (TSD)
  • Process flows and models
  • User stories and acceptance criteria
  • Data mappings and requirements
  • Integration/interface specifications
  • Requirements traceability matrix
  • Test scenarios and UAT support
  • Change impact assessments
  • Release and handover documentation


RequirementsMinimum Requirements


  • 5+ years’ experience in a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Functional Analyst or similar role.
  • Diploma in Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
  • Strong requirements gathering and analysis skills.
  • Experience translating business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
  • Experience working with software development and delivery teams.
  • Strong documentation and communication skills.
  • Experience with testing, UAT and defect management.
  • Ability to work with both business and technical stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Advantageous


  • Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
  • Experience with BPMN or process modelling.
  • Experience with APIs, integrations and data mapping.
  • Experience working with solution architects and development teams.
  • Knowledge of SDLC and software delivery practices.



Desired Skills:

  • BPMN
  • Agile/scrum
  • SDLC
  • Functional specifications
  • Technical Specifications
  • UAT

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Diploma

About The Employer:


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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

About the agency

Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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