Intermediate Feature Analyst

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Let's Write Africa's Story Together! Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this. Job Description Old Mutual is a dynamic,

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Let's Write Africa's Story Together!

Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Old Mutual is a dynamic, purpose-driven organisation where talented people come together to create meaningful impact for our customers, communities and the markets we serve. We embrace diverse perspectives, encourage collaboration and invest in the growth of our people, creating opportunities to build capability and contribute to the success of a trusted African financial services organisation.

The Feature Analyst supports the translation of business needs into clear user stories, functional specifications and requirements that enable effective solution delivery. Working closely with business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams, the role helps clarify requirements and contributes to the development of key artefacts, including acceptance criteria and process documentation.

The role supports a shared understanding of epics and features, ensuring clarity around the business need and the value solutions are intended to deliver. It provides an opportunity to build foundational expertise in functional analysis, stakeholder engagement and Agile delivery practices within a collaborative technology environment.

Responsibilities

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Analyze and evaluate the feasibility and relevance of proposed features and user stories aligned to business
goals.
Decompose epics into features and features into user stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria,
Ensure alignment with program increments.
Collaborate with business and technical teams to refine product
solutions.

Review the backlog of work for a small projects and reprioritize the work and deployment of project resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered to the business.
Manage and analyze requirements and validate with original users, eliminating confusion
Identify, elicit, and document project/process requirements, using appropriate modeling technique, if required.
Maintain documentation and traceability throughout project.

Requirements

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Support collection of business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, and workflow analysis, to express requirements clearly and succinctly.

Support and contribute to the documentation of "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required.

Contribute to and support feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective, and document findings.

Identify solution recommendations to business problems when given fairly well understood business needs at a business unit level.

Perform and implement techniques, such as voice of the customer initiatives, journey mapping, and qualitative touchpoint analysis, to identify customer pain points, challenges, and hurdles.

Explore and develop a basic understanding of external developments or emerging issues and contribute to the evaluation of their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.

Provides input into test cases. Validates features against acceptance criteria.

Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)

16 November 2026 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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