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Title:         IT Business Analyst

Organization: Diageo

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with
an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and
wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor,
Buchanan’s and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One vodkas,
Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Job Summary: The IT Business Analyst will support the
Solution Delivery Leads in the area of transformational change and continuous
process improvement.  Supporting the
development of the market DBS strategic agenda, understanding the change
required the value proposition associated and required development, deployment
to realise the benefit.

This role will support delivery of key strategic programs in
the functional domains with projects and process/system improvement initiatives
of varying levels of complexity. Projects will typically last 3 – 12 months for
design and build with roll out/releases to other business units in subsequent
financial cycles.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

·       
Possesses a good level of knowledge and
understanding of DBS capabilities and services offered and available to the
markets

·       
Leads ongoing reviews of business processes and
develops continuous process improvement (CPI) and optimization strategies by
leveraging existing assets, proposing enhancements or establishing need for new
solutions.

·       
Develops continuous process improvement
interventions and facilitates Lean projects to improve processes. Works with
key business stakeholders, as multi-jurisdictional ‘LEAN champions’, to build a
continuous improvement environment to support an ongoing program of change·

·       
Identifies local business demand and feeds
through to Solution Delivery Lead, User Experience and Service COEs as
appropriate

·       
Determines if/how business needs can be met
through existing solutions across DBS service towers

·       
Assists the Solution Delivery Lead with
development and documentation of the business case for portfolio and CPI
projects

·       
Gathers detailed business requirements and
documents how the business operates with a view to correctly translate business
requirements into technical requirements. Requires working with a wide range of
business stakeholders and users while taking a leading role in discovery and
analysis workshops.

·       
Translated business needs into business
requirements and guides this though prioritization and inclusion in Portfolio
and CPI plans

·       
Drives the design and/or review of test cases,
process change requests, and manage a project’s scope, acceptance, installation
and deployment.

·       
Assesses and validates activities to determine
if a solution has fulfilled the requirements.

·       
Identifies, screens and evaluates if a new
solution is required to address customer needs

·       
Develops solution concepts and business cases
for new investments

·       
Informs Solution Leads and Business Partners of
solution trade-offs both within and between different solution platforms to
help decision making.

·       
Identifies and facilitates process improvement
projects, training/ workshops to drive cultural change

·       
For deployed solutions, prevents or corrects
defects, making changes, enhancements and maintenance of the system to enhance
the value of the system. Includes system validation reports and evaluating the
system to find when the replacement or deactivation is needed.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       
The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree
required in a relevant field

·       
Three to five years of experience interpreting
business requirements, recognizing impact on business processes, and making
recommendations

·       
Experience in LEAN Six Sigma methodology

·       
Experience in Agile project delivery
methodologies.

·       
Demonstrated capability to build and maintain
good business relationships.

·       
Demonstrated capability to effectively work in
cross-functional teams.

·       
Demonstrated ability to work independently

How to Apply:

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business, Diageo, in the aforementioned capacity, please click web link below.

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