Senior Business Consultant

Sandton, South Africa Posted on 02/19/2026

A strategic and solutions-driven Senior Business Consultant with extensive experience leading complex business analysis and transformation initiatives.

Demonstrates strong capability instructuring ambiguous problems, translating business objectives into actionable solutions, and delivering measurable value across enterprise environments. Confident in engaging senior stakeholders, facilitating high-impact workshops, and guiding cross-functional teams through end-to-end delivery lifecycles.

Brings strong analytical depth, commercial awareness, and leadership capability to oversee workstreams, mentor analysts, and drive continuous improvement. Thrives in fast-paced consulting environments and consistently delivers structured, high-quality outputs aligned to strategic business objectives.

We expect the Senior Business Consultant to operate with strong ownership, strategic thinking, and delivery accountability across all assigned workstreams. Performance in this role is measured not only by the quality of outputs, but by the impact, influence, and value delivered across complex initiatives.

• Delivery of high-quality, executive-ready analysis and consulting outputs
• Clear structuring of complex problems into actionable deliverables
• Confident and professional engagement with senior stakeholders
• Ownership of end-to-end analysis workstreams
• Strong decision-making support based on data and structured reasoning
• Mentorship and quality oversight of junior analysts
• Proactive risk identification and resolution
• Accountability for delivery outcomes and stakeholder satisfaction
• Professional representation of Edge Analytics in all client engagements

• Lead end-to-end business analysis across complex projects and programmes, ensuring solutions align with business strategy, customer needs, and organisational priorities.
• Drive the elicitation, refinement, and documentation of high-quality business and functional requirements, user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Conduct comprehensive current-state (AS-IS) and future-state (TO-BE) process modelling, gap analyses, impact assessments, and solution evaluations.
• Translate business objectives into structured problem statements, solution options, and clear recommendations for senior leadership.
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and cross-functional discussions with executives, business owners, architects, engineering teams, and external partners.
• Lead stakeholder management activities, including expectation-setting, negotiation, conflict resolution, and decision-making support.
• Oversee and provide quality assurance for analysis artefacts produced by junior and intermediate analysts, ensuring consistency and alignment with standards.
• Partner with technical teams to validate solution design, integration impacts, data flows, and system dependencies.
• Guide user acceptance testing (UAT) strategy, including test scenario definition, issue triage, defect analysis, and sign-off processes.
• Support organisational change management by contributing to communication plans, training materials, adoption strategies, and readiness assessments.
• Drive continuous improvement of business analysis practices, frameworks, tools, and methodologies.
• Provide mentorship, leadership, and coaching to junior business analysts, supporting capability building and professional growth.
• Oversee delivery progress for analysis workstreams and ensure risks, dependencies, and issues are proactively managed.
• Act as a key advisor to business executives, offering insights, data-driven analysis, and thought leadership on process optimisation and digital transformation.

• Bcom Honours degree in Information Systems, Business, Informatics, Engineering, or related field; postgraduate qualification or MBA is an advantage.
• Certification or exposure to recognised project delivery or business analysis methodologies (such as IIBA, PMBOK/PMP, PRINCE2, CBAP, or Agile/Scrum) is advantageous.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, consulting, or product/business transformation roles, including experience working on complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Proven expertise in requirements engineering, business process modelling, solution evaluation, and end-to-end business analysis delivery.
• Strong understanding of enterprise systems, data flows, integration points, and the relationship between business processes and technology.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and critical-thinking skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and recommend data-driven solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage both executive and technical audiences.
• Strong leadership capabilities, including mentoring analysts, managing workstreams, and guiding cross-functional teams.
• Experience in Agile and/or hybrid delivery environments, including backlog planning, sprint refinement, and supporting product teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work autonomously, and operate effectively in fast-paced and dynamic environments.
• High competence in documentation, presentation development, reporting, and producing executive-ready deliverables.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, innovation, and driving operational and strategic value.

• Exposure to enterprise-level projects and strategic initiatives
• Meaningful ownership of delivery workstreams
• Opportunity to work directly with executive stakeholders
• Company-issued laptop and accessories