Business Analyst at vista-group

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape
Type: Full-time
Posted: Jun 23, 2026

Description

The Legal Business Analyst acts as a bridge between legal language and product understanding, translating complex legal documents into clear, neutral requirement documents. This role involves analyzing legal texts, extracting compliance excerpts, monitoring the global compliance landscape, contributing to product compliance roadmaps, and reviewing new product features for compliance impacts. The analyst will create concise interpretation documents, pair legal excerpts with interpretations, and collaborate with legal and subject matter experts to refine these interpretations. They will also promote cross-functional alignment among legal, product, and engineering teams, ensuring effective integration and change management.

Required Skills

Critical Thinking
Communication
Workshop Facilitation
Software Industry
Business Analysis
Project Management

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Proven, relevant experience in the software industry.
Experience using Business Analysis and Project Management tools and techniques.
Preferred Qualifications: Strong critical thinking.
Takes ownership and drives progress.
Concise and explicit communication.
Builds constructive relationships.
Translates business needs and regulatory material into clear requirements/user stories.
Supports new or improved approaches to solving problems.
Confident workshop facilitation.
Analyse legal texts and extract relevant compliance excerpts.
Apply critical thinking to ensure actions are necessary and proportionate.
Monitoring the global compliance landscape.
Contributing to the product compliance roadmap.
Reviewing new products and features for compliance impacts.
Create concise, neutral interpretation documents for internal review.
Pair key legal excerpts with interpretations to enable traceability and input.
Work with legal and subject matter experts to refine interpretations.
Work with subject matter experts to understand current product capabilities.
Promotes collaboration that respects a balance of all business demands.
Achieve goals with the other Business Analysts, Engineers, Product Managers and Architects in particular to ensure alignment across legal, product, and engineering perspectives.
Works closely with other BAs on integrations and other changes e.g. sales channels.
Collaborates with regulatory bodies, third parties and timelines.