Senior Business Analyst/ Data Governance Lead

John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) is the largest conglomrate listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. From managing hotels and resorts in Sri Lanka and the Maldives to providing port, marine fuel and logistics services to IT (Information Technology) Solutions, manufacturing of food and beverages to running a chain of supermarkets, tea broking to stock broking, life insurance and banking to real estate, we have made our presence felt in every major sphere of the economy.

Job Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements of Center functions for existing and new applications, ensuring alignment with cyber security, data privacy/ governance, and regulatory/ IT compliance standards.
• Conduct meetings, workshops, and training sessions to gather and document business requirements, use cases ensuring compliance with Group policies.
• Manage the RFI/RFP processes for any IT procurement, adhering to the defined Group process for any technology products or services and obtain necessary approvals in liaison with business functions and Group IT.
• Serve as a liaison between all stakeholders, including system users, vendors, development teams, quality assurance teams, and service providers, to ensure effective communication and on time delivery on all IT products and services.
• Review quality assurance test cases and ensure test plans comprehensively address functional requirements.
• Manage IT projects for Center Functions by adhering to the project management life cycle to ensure timely delivery, adherence to budgets, and alignment with business goals.

• Prepare annual IT budgets, optimize resource allocation, balancing optimum functionality while minimizing the costs, and negotiate vendor agreements for cost-effective solutions.
• Ensure quarterly IT compliance statements are up to date for center functions, clearly breaking down the to-dos into sub-projects and completing them within timelines to be compliant on any gaps identified during the quarterly IT compliance audit.
• Assist the Center Functions DPO in implementing and operationalizing data protection strategies relating to information technology.
• Oversee and ensure the efficient operational IT delivery of Center Functions.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation, including IT contracts and Information Asset blueprint for IT and BCP/ DR documentation and execution, to ensure compliance.
• Ensure highest infrastructure uptime and optimal system performance on all Core Systems and  LOBs.
• Effective management of Inventories of IT assets, Core/ LoB Systems.
• Promote cybersecurity awareness by conducting quarterly assessments and providing relevant updates to stakeholders.

Person Specifications

• A bachelor’s degree in information systems/ technology.
• More than 05 years of experience in IT (including 02 - 03 years of exposure in Business Analysis, Systems development and experience in IT operations is added advantage)
• Know-how of Line-of-Business (LOB) applications (On-prem, SAAS, PAAS) and LOB Application technologies
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Strong technical writing and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent project planning, coordinating and time management skills.
• Ability to work long hours without losing focus and comply to highest levels of integrity.

This position will be reporting to the HoBS of Center Functions and Interested candidates are encouraged to apply on HIVE before the 10th of December 2024. Remuneration of the above position will be in accordance with JKH Compensation and Benefits Policy.

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