Business Analysts

About the Department

A national statistical agency, providing official statistics on a wide range of economic, social, population and environmental matters of importance to Australia.

Key Duties

• Work with stakeholders to design, capture and communicate target business processes and requirements, to enable delivery of a solution that meets end user and ABS business and non-functional requirements.
• Be a key liaisonbetween the product owner/business team and the technical delivery team.
• Support the Product Owner in ensuring priorities and the work delivered meets business needs.
• Work closely with
  • Scrum Master to ensure BA practices fit with the Agile practices for the project.
  • UX Specialist to ensure UX is considered in requirements
• Facilitate selected agile ceremonies such as feature walkthrough, t'shirt sizing, backlog refinement.
• Ensure requirements and key decisions for the next sprint are finalised in advance.
• Manage the lifecycle of Jira stories in each sprint ensuring their status is updated accordingly.
• Manage the Jira portfolio view of ASP features, epics and stories.

Mandatory Qualifications

To be suitable as a Business Analyst (EL1 level), you should be able to demonstrate the following skills, qualities and experience:

• Ability to get up to speed on established projects is a must and pick up work that is in progress.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to elicit and document relevant stakeholder and solution requirements
• Ability to model business analysis artefacts following industry standards including BPMN 2.0 and UML (Business Process Model and Notation; Unified Modelling Language)
• Business Analysis in agile projects and being able to describe features and user stories, and work in agile/scrum teams to refine and assist in prioritising backlog items
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams and engage effectively with various stakeholders.
• An ability to identify, evaluate and pursue process improvement opportunities.
• Ability to work independently and in a virtual team environment

As these positions are with a Federal Government Agency, only Australian Citizens will be considered. These are non-ongoing positions where you will be employed by the ABS and as such receive a salary, holiday pay, sick pay and 15.4% super contribution. The salary for this position is $105,758 + super.

How to Apply

Click APPLY or contact Marisa Conlon, Senior Consultant, Talent Acquisition at ******@fprs.com.au for further information on the role.

Please submit applications in Word format only by 10am, Friday 15th March 2024.

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