AddressWe are currently seeking a Business Analyst who will play a critical role in enhancing our clients research processes, ensuring efficiency, and promoting data-driven decision-making.
The project is focused on:
- Developing a high-level project management framework through which all business processes and system improvements can be structured.
- Mapping of current business processes.
- Identifying and mapping more efficient and effective business process changes which support clear and transparent business processes, clarity of roles and responsibilities and opportunities for greater automation and integration of processes and systems.
- Establish a project management framework which reflects key stages of the research lifecycle for business processes and systems.
- Map current state business processes to future state desired capability areas and processes.
- Identify, analyse, and facilitate optimisation of business systems, processes, and workflows.
- Consultation of key stakeholders throughout each stage of the research lifecycle.
- Outline requirements of system architecture, data, and integration plans between business systems to reflect future state mapping.
- Create user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Complete customer journey mapping.
- Perform functional data analysis on applications and integrations.
- Map data flows to a detailed functional level and identify touchpoints that could be used to inform risk mitigation activities.
- Provide regular updates to project team throughout process.
- Extensive experience in process optimisation business analysis.
- Proven understanding of project management principles and the application of these to business processes.
- Process/data/functional flow modelling and optimisation skills.
- Exposure to and knowledge of Higher Education research processes.
- Outstanding stakeholder management and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience with Jira or similar project management tools is highly desirable.
- Varied experience as a Business Analyst in the research environment.
- Understanding of research ethics processes.
- Understanding of research grant application processes.
- Demonstrated ability to complete user experience and customer journey mapping.
Verve Partners is an energetic team of specialist consultants reimagining recruitment Australia-wide. With over 170 years of combined experience, we’ve found the sweet spot in talent search – and want to share it. By scouting smart, digging deep and embracing diversity, we grow vibrant careers, cultures and communities. We currently have offices in the lifestyle cities of Newcastle and Wollongong.
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