Business Analyst Simplifies Complexity for Reporting of Major Financial Services Provider (2018)
The Business Challenge
One of SA’s Major Financial Services groups needed to consolidate reporting that was decentralised across different divisions that were making use of a variety of reporting tools. The challenges included:
- The collation of data from disparate sources
- Including complex reporting based on custom-built financial risk models
- Lack of regulatory reporting for compliance that could lead to possible governance penalties
- Difficulty obtaining buy in from organisation-wide stakeholders
The Goal
The objective was to architect a reporting solution that:
- Would meet the functionality and usability needs of the different divisions
- Would include an industry best-of-breed analytics engine to cater for complex financial reporting requirements.
- Could be easily adopted by the divisions within the organisation (facilitate stakeholder buy-in) to ensure timeous delivery of the solution.
The Solution
The architecture and presentation of a diagram-based model, where the client could visually depict the end-to-end technical solution landscape and business users could understand the proposed process and solution.
The Approach
Our Business Analyst resource played a pivotal role in the project by:
- Designing the business analysis approach
- Developing the solution approach, scope and business case
- Conducting workshops to illicit and document the requirements
- Supporting the project management function.
- Producing outputs that included:
- A business case
- Business Requirement Specification (BRS)
- Functional requirements, context diagrams, processes, domain models, business rules, constraints functional and non-functional requirements
The Value
A clear understanding (model) of a reporting solution that addressed business and regulatory requirements. The model was used to obtain consensus and buy in from stakeholders and provided input to the implementation of a reporting solution.
Grow Customer Base and Ensure Service Continuity for MultiChoice (2017)
Rodney worked closely with business and played an integral role in preparing the Business Requirements Specification that detailed the solution to be delivered.
He then worked with the technical team, validating the user stories to ensure the technology delivered against the spec.
A proof of concept and project prototype was delivered and 400 customers were retained as a result.