A FUTURE SPARKLING BRIGHT

What excites you about your work? The one thing I love about my role is I never know what to expect, each day needs a different approach to problemsolving.

I’m a Business Analyst because I love diagnosing business problems and implementing solutions to eliminate them. Being part of integrating a payment method successfully on our platforms, reaching the mass market with simplified customer journeys to use such payment methods gives me a sense of “value-add” to enriching lives.

What important lessons have you learned in your career?

In one season of my career, I had to choose career growth over money, and that trade-off was painful, yet incomparable to the latter results, but through the knowledge gained, I tripled my salary after a year.

How would you describe your purpose? Finding practical solutions to everyday problems, both in personal and business relationships. I desire to see my stakeholders walking away with satisfactory solutions that need no specialised skills to implement.

What advice do you have for aspirant business analysts? To build your brand (values, principles, etc.), always be open to constructive feedback, whether you receive it well or not. When seeking assistance, don’t be afraid to sound clueless once in a while, that way you’ll be able to swim out of the deep end much faster.

In addition to sticking to the schedule, on-time delivery is a function of your relationship with those you’re building the solution for (Stakeholder matters get ahead).

Please share any exciting plans you may have for the future. MSc Industrial in the field of soft systems engineering will see me elicit key business requirements that will not only be clear for developers to code and deploy, but solving interdependent business problems to get holistic results. Business Analyst Certification with an International Business Analysis Institute, thereafter shadowing a Senior Product Development.