Business
Analysis

CREATING CONTEXT-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
FROM CONCEPT TO IMPLEMENTATION

Business
Analysis

Change
Management

ICT

Project and Programme Management

Our talent is skilled to work within different stakeholder groups, from an operational level to top management.
They also understand the interdependencies with other skill sets like project- and change management, within a project setting. We subscribe to a pragmatic approach but believe that bodies of knowledge like the IIBA BABOK, broadly include and describe the essence of what a Business Analyst should do.

INDUSTRY PRACTICES AND CERTIFICATION

  • IIBA ECBA, CCBA, CBAP
  • IREB (International Requirements Engineering Board) Advanced Business and System Analysis
  • Certificate Programme in Business Analysis, Advanced Business Analysis Programme
  • ITIL, CobIT and CMM (Application software development, lifecycle management)
  • CMMi, BPMM, PEMM, 8-Omega (process maturity models)
  • IDEF, ARIS (Process modelling methodologies)
  • APQC- Process classification framework
  • 6 Sigma- Methodology for Process improvement

Bizmod believes that a professional Business Analyst should be well-versed in process, business and system analysis – and have an eye for creative solutions. Bizmod Talent can work with different stakeholder groups, from the operational level to top management. They also understand the interdependencies with other skill sets like project and change management in a project setting. We subscribe to a pragmatic approach but believe that bodies of knowledge like the IIBA BABOK (International Institute of Business Analysis, BA body of Knowledge) broadly include and describe the essence of what a Business Analyst should do. We take the development of our BAs seriously and ensure they are trained and certified by established industry institutions.

At a high level, the following are relevant capabilities our clients can expect from Bizmod Business Analysts:

  • Quickly understand the business issues and challenges of the client’s organisation and industry;
  • Identify an organisation’s strengths and weaknesses and suggest areas of improvement;
  • Create early project artefacts like business cases Conduct feasibility studies;
  • Input into the shaping and scoping of project and programme deliverables;
  • Ensure that the recommended solution is both commercial and competitive;
  • Understand business requirements and translate them into specific software requirements;
  • Understand business requirements and translate them into practical business solutions;
  • Depending on the client, to understand both technical and non-technical products, designs, specifications and business requirements;
  • Analyse and document the required data and information, process, requirements etc.;
  • Evaluate information harvested through surveys and workshops, task analysis, and business process description;
  • Demonstrate strong technical skills, business intelligence, business-specific context and a full understanding of the needs of the client;
  • Effectively communicate with external clients and internal teams to deliver on requirements;
  • Act as an interface between technology teams, support teams, and business units.

Our Business Analysis talent have built and supported various Business Analysis methodologies for our clients, customised to their specific environments. As a company, we are however very comfortable with adhering to our client’s requirements, specific approach and interpretation of Business Analysis as a discipline.

Financial Analyst
Methodology & Approach

BIZMOD BELIEVES THAT A PROFESSIONAL FINANCIAL ANALYST SHOULD BE WELL-VERSED IN FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS, ANALYSING OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND DATA AND PREDICTING FUTURE PERFORMANCE, INCLUDING THE FORECASTING OF FUTURE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES, AS WELL AS MODELLING CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND BUDGETING.

Our resources can work with different stakeholder groups, from operational level to top management. They also understand the interdependencies with other skill sets like project and change management and business analysis in a project setting. We subscribe to a pragmatic approach but believe that bodies of knowledge like the CFI BOK.

At a high level, the following are relevant capabilities our clients can expect from Bizmod financial analysts:

  • Perform financial forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking;
  • Analyse financial data and create financial models for decision support;
  • Create early project artefacts like business cases;
  • Report on financial performance and prepare for regular leadership reviews;
  • Analyse past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements;
  • Work closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting;
  • Understand business financial requirements and translating them into practical business solutions;
  • Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analysing actual results with plans and forecasts;
  • Guide the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedure;
  • Evaluate information harvested through surveys and workshops, task analysis, and business process description;
  • Provide analysis of trends and forecasts and recommend actions for optimization;
  • Effectively communicate with external clients and internal teams to deliver on requirements;
  • Maintain a strong financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and mode

Reporting Analyst
Methodology & Approach

Bizmod understands that key to successful programme delivery is a professional and competent reporting analyst. A good reporting analyst:

  • Is innovative in their ability to use, and maximise the effectiveness, of the reporting tools available to them.
  • Is detailed in their approach, able to scrutinize and highlight discrepancies in their data.
  • Is experienced in risk management, in order to report a risk-based approach that will support decision making and enable to the programme to be managed and controlled effectively.
  • Understands and interprets complexity, able to create relationships between multiple datasets and transform and present them in clean reports with meaningful insights.
  • Uses initiative, to problem solve, manage stakeholders, define and continually improve the reporting framework.
  • Reporting analysis provides are porting service to the Portfolio. It also collates base data and generates reports to multiple audiences through aggregated data.

The role of a Reporting Analyst is to report the portfolio status with timely and accurate information covering key portfolio controls–including finance, risk, and programme.

This includes supporting the establishment of a reporting framework that covers;

  • Providing timely, concise, accurate information from ‘one source of the truth’ –the Portfolio Office
  • The breadth and depth of the Portfolio scope
  • Allowing for strong communication and challenge throughout the programmes in the Portfolio
  • Ensuring that communication up to and down the programmes in the Portfolio is consistent
  • Allowing for timely decision making on accurate data.

Bizmod Approach to Business Process Optimisation / Re-Engineering (BPO/R)

Why BPO / BPR?
The ultimate goal of Business Process Optimisation/ Re-engineering(BPO/R) is the selection of the right process designs and the application of the most appropriate optimisation techniques.
BPO/R leads to quality improvements, service enhancements, cost reductions, and productivity increases of business activity or process. It is focused on increasing customer satisfaction by gathering the right team, determining your organisation’s primary value driver, listening to your customers, establishing a culture of excellence and choosing the best tools for your organisation.
Bizmod’s consultants provide expert BPO/R services needed to provide organisations with the awareness, knowledge, and skills needed for continuous improvement management.
At Bizmod we believe that a professional Business Consultant should be well-versed in the process, business and system analysis –and have an eye for creative solutions.

Our Approach
Our approach to BPO/E delivers business value by creating a sustainable framework for improvement while establishing momentum for process excellence across the organisation.
Our consultants identify the areas of highest priority that are most critical to your organisation’s success. They will conduct business process improvement framing to determine major steps, issues, and improvement visions. And they will provide the expertise you need to apply management methodologies that promote success across the business.
We subscribe to a pragmatic approach but believe that bodies of knowledge like the Business Process Management Common Body of Knowledge (BPM CBOK) broadly includes and describes the essence of what a Process Professional should do.
We take the development of our Process Professionals seriously and ensure they are trained and certified by established industry institutions

We at Bizmod believe that a professional Business Analyst should be well-versed in the process, business and system analysis – and have an eye for creative solutions.

“We at Bizmod believe that a professional Business Analyst should be well-versed in the process, business and system analysis – and have an eye for creative solutions.”