Business Analyst | Pep Vacancies

Pep Stores Vacancies – Business Analyst

The Business Analyst role aims to provide essential support to the People Support Department concerning HR and Payroll systems and associated business processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing system requirements for the SAGE payroll system.
• Addressing queries from other business entities within the Pepkor group.
• Project management tasks.
• Reporting activities.
• Understanding, documenting, and prioritizing business and user requirements.
• Supporting existing applications, technologies, processes, and users.
• Extracting and evaluating data, along with critical analysis of information.
• Generating functional specification documents and systems documentation.
• Overseeing change control, QA testing, and facilitating User Acceptance Testing.
• Providing user training and assistance.
• Managing user security maintenance and access control.
• Handling assigned tasks and participating in ad hoc projects.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies:

• Possession of qualifications in IT, Business Analysis, or Payroll/HR is advantageous.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant systems/business analyst experience.
• Self-motivated with a strong customer service orientation.
• Understanding of technical environments is beneficial.
• Above-average computer literacy, including proficiency in MS Project, Excel, Word, Visio, Access, and Basic SQL.
• Experience with GSuite/MS Office.
• Financial acumen is beneficial.
• Experience with Sage 300 People or any payroll system.
• Familiarity with payroll/HR environments.
• Knowledge of SQL and scripting is advantageous.
• Exposure to project management principles.
• Familiarity with Agile methodology is beneficial.
• Competencies including accuracy, planning, cooperation, persuasiveness, drive, initiative, helicopter view, and innovation.