Strategic Business Transformation Lead

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 life cycles.

Brings strong analytical depth,commercial awareness, and leadership capability to oversee work streams, mentoranalysts, and drive continuous improvement. Thrives in fast-paced consultingenvironments and consistently delivers structured, high-quality outputs alignedto strategic business objectives.

Our Expectations of the Role:

Weexpect the Senior Business Consultant to operate with strong ownership,strategic thinking, and delivery accountability across all assignedworkstreams. Performance in this role is measured not only by the quality ofoutputs, but by the impact, influence, and value delivered across complex initiatives.

Specifically,we expect:

• Deliveryof high-quality, executive-ready analysis and consulting outputs
• Clearstructuring of complex problems into actionable deliverables
• Confident and professional engagement with senior stakeholders
• Ownership of end-to-end analysis work streams
• Strong decision-making support based on data and structured reasoning
• Mentorship and quality oversight of junior analysts
• Proactiverisk identification and resolution
• Accountability for delivery outcomes and stakeholder satisfaction
• Professionalrepresentation of Edge Analytics in all client engagements

• Leadend-to-end business analysis across complex projects and programmes, ensuring solutions align withbusiness strategy, customer needs, and organisational priorities.
• Drivethe 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.
• Translatebusiness objectives into structured problem statements, solution options, andclear recommendations for senior leadership.
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and cross-functional discussions withexecutives, business owners, architects, engineering teams, and external partners.
• Leadstakeholder management activities, including expectation-setting, negotiation,conflict resolution, and decision-making support.
• Oversee and provide quality assurance for analysis artefacts produced by junior andintermediate analysts, ensuring consistency and alignment with standards.
• Partner with technical teams to validate solution design, integration impacts, dataflows, and system dependencies.
• Guideuser acceptance testing (UAT) strategy, including test scenario definition,issue triage, defect analysis, and sign-off processes.
• Supportorganisational 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, supportingcapability building and professional growth.
• Overseedelivery progress for analysis work streams and ensure risks, dependencies, andissues are proactively managed.
• Actas a key advisor to business executives, offering insights, data-drivenanalysis, and thought leadership on process optimisation and digital transformation.

• Bcom Honours degree in Information Systems, Business, Informatics, Engineering, or related field; postgraduatequalification or MBA is an advantage.
• Certificationor 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.
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