Business Analysis Lead

About the role
In this role, you will develop, implement, and ensure best practice processes for conducting Business Analysis activities for complex pieces of work across the organisation. 

Work type: Permanent, full-time
Classification: $140,410 – 143,000 base plus Superannuation

Key responsibilities include:

• Establish and lead the Business Analysis practice, ensuring alignment with CoGG’s strategic goals and best practices.
• Identifying and documenting functional and non-functional business requirements in a concise, accurate, unambiguous, and timely manner.
• Working closely with departments and undertaking enterprise analysis and discovery activities to help inform prioritisation decisions.
• Leading and coordinating the activities and efforts of business analysts across multiple projects.
• Facilitating communication between the relevant departments, technology teams and support teams to ensure that business solutions are aligned with business objectives.
• Providing expert advice on business process improvements and reengineering and where appropriate align to solutions that can be delivered within the selected enterprise technology.
• Supporting the Project Manager(s) through all phases of the project lifecycle, contributing to risk management identification and issues management.
• Promoting and actively contributing to the department’s common goals and key priorities by involving relevant stakeholders and team members in decision making.
• Coaching and mentoring colleagues and team members, uplifting department’s capabilities to meet the requirements of its future strategic goals.
• Aligning work activities to the department Business Plans and Strategy, leading implementation and balancing value for our community and customers, within financial and resource constraints.
• Analysing and reporting accurate data to regularly report on performance against departmental goals.

About you
To be successful in this role you will have Significant Professional experience in Business Analysis, preferably within a Local Government or Public Sector setting.

Essential Experience:

• A tertiary qualification in IT, Business (BA Major) or similar fields with significant professional experience in a comparable organisation.
• Working knowledge of Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), Agile delivery framework and Prince2 project management methodology.
• Demonstrated experience in leading the Business Analysis practice and coaching/mentoring the other business analyst within the team.
• Demonstrated ability to implement best practice Business Analysis processes and build resource capability.
• Experience on high profile projects with multiple enterprise wide integrated and inter-related systems.
• Extensive experience identifying and documenting both business and system requirements on major ICT projects.
• Experience in business process redesign/re-engineering and implementation.
• Sound understanding of contemporary change management processes pertaining to complex ICT projects.
• Highly developed conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills in an ICT environment working with complex and/or challenging internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively and influence across all levels of an organisation, including high level written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated skills in coaching and mentoring the Business Analysis SMEs.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! 

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.  

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger. 

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language.  Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people.  We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you. 

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning 

Applications and Enquiries
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Applications close Tuesday 2nd April at 11:55pm.

Enquiries: Iftekhar Siddiqui | ICT Project Office Manager | ***************@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

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