Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Business Systems Analyst

Sabenza IT & Recruitment City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

IT Services and IT Consulting · 11-50 employees

Oct 19
Mid (2-5 yrs) Contractor Full-time South Africa
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About the role

The Business Systems Analyst will translate complex legislative and operational requirements into clear system specifications for crypto-asset reporting. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate data exchange, reconciliation, and regulatory compliance.

What they look for

Business Analysis Systems Analysis Requirements Elicitation Process Modelling Data Analysis Regulatory Reporting Compliance Tax Transparency Crypto Assets Stakeholder Engagement Functional Specification User Acceptance Testing System Integration Change Management Audit Support

Requirements

Candidates must hold a relevant degree or diploma in IT, Finance, or a related field, along with at least 3 years of experience in business or systems analysis. Strong knowledge of regulatory reporting, tax transparency, or crypto-asset compliance is highly advantageous.

Full description

Business Systems Analyst Shape the Future of Crypto Asset Reporting & Global Tax Transparency

Contract | Hybrid (Pretoria-based) | Financial Services

Are you ready to work at the cutting edge of digital asset regulation and tax transparency? Join a high-impact programme delivering the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) — one of the most significant global shifts in financial compliance.

We’re looking for a sharp, detail-oriented Business Systems Analyst to join the Work Orders team. In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of business, technology, and regulation, turning complex legislative and operational requirements into clear, high-quality systems that enable accurate data exchange, due diligence, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting.

If you enjoy solving intricate problems, collaborating across teams, and seeing your work drive real-world compliance outcomes, this is your opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

Process & Requirements

  • Analyse CARF policy, legislative, regulatory, and operational requirements and assess their impact on processes and systems.
  • Elicit, validate, document, and manage business, data, functional, and non-functional requirements across the solution lifecycle.
  • Map current- and future-state processes, business rules, user journeys, data flows, interfaces, and reporting needs.
  • Translate stakeholder requirements into clear specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability documentation.
  • Support the definition and validation of data capture, due diligence, exchange, reconciliation, exception management, and regulatory reporting processes.

Delivery & Quality

  • Collaborate with solution architects, developers, data specialists, testers, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet approved requirements.
  • Develop test scenarios and cases, support system integration and user acceptance testing, and manage defects.
  • Validate system outputs, data quality controls, reconciliations, and regulatory reports for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
  • Support release planning, implementation readiness, change management, training, and post-implementation review.

Governance & Collaboration

  • Maintain audit-ready documentation and support internal and external audit processes.
  • Build strong working relationships with stakeholders and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Identify risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities and escalate them appropriately.

Requirements

What You’ll Bring

Mandatory

  • Bachelor’s Degree, BTech, or Diploma (NQF 6–7) in Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Analysis, Computer Science, Finance, Taxation, or a related field;

or

  • A relevant qualification plus at least 3 years’ experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, or Systems Analyst;

or

  • Demonstrated experience in requirements elicitation, process modelling, functional specification, data analysis, testing, and stakeholder engagement.

Advantageous

  • Experience in tax administration, regulatory reporting, financial services, crypto assets, digital assets, data exchange, or compliance systems.
  • Knowledge of CARF, crypto asset service providers, tax transparency, or automatic exchange of information.

Role Details

  • Location: Pretoria (Hybrid) — successful candidates must be based in Pretoria
  • Contract duration: Until 31 March 2028

If you’re ready to apply your analytical strength and systems thinking to a high-impact regulatory programme shaping the future of crypto asset transparency, apply now and help build the systems that will keep South Africa at the forefront of global tax compliance.