Senior Business Analyst

Location: Perth (Candidate must be Perth based, else open to relocate)

Project: IM1 Foundations and Tools

Group, Branch/Region, Section: Information and Technology Group

Reports to: Project Director - Projects & Portfolio Delivery

Position PurposeSenior team member and leading expert from the Business Analyst Centre of Excellence, functionally lead teams and stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate, validate and manage requirements for changes to systems, business processes, policies, information and data, develop business requirements, design business appropriate solutions and prepare business cases and supporting documents that facilitates the end-to-end project delivery lifecycle; working closely with the business managing requirements through the lifecycle to meet business needs and provide recommendations for process redesign and improvements and business solutions, enabling changes to processes, policy and/or information.

Key Accountabilities

Operational Delivery

• Lead delivery of that part of the end-to-end process from receipt of the business problem statement or ideation and managing requirements through the delivery lifecycle to meet business needs, utilising a diverse range of perspectives including Waterfall, Agile, Information Technology and/or business process management.
• Define and manage the requirements through the delivery lifecycle to meet business needs, including develop, streamline, and embed continuous improvements to end-to-end processes.
• Provides leadership and specialist expertise to project managers and stakeholders to deliver strong, robust, and ell-defined business cases and supporting documentation.
• Lead engagements with stakeholders and project teams to gather and document business requirements to solve the business problem and design the appropriate technical solution.
• Facilitate and support the business with guidance and advice on what requirements might best fit the Corporation's needs in an acceptable and sustainable way.
• Responsible for identifying and implementing streamlining opportunities across the business and preparing relevant process mapping through industry standard system processes.
• Maintain a high level of engagement with stakeholders and project teams to ensure that projects and initiatives are tracked and managed to completion.
• Identify and analyse inefficiencies, current process flow, process problems and collaborate with relevant teams to recommend optimal business practices, processes and solutions as may be required from time to time.
• Lead to ensure customer needs are met and business and is aligned to the overall strategy by:
• Scheduling requirements workshops and meetings as required and co-ordinate analysis activities.
• Lead definition of current state and future/proposed state business processes.
• Define and develop detailed business requirements and specifications to drive business process change, user stories and product backlog, system enhancement and development activities.
• Review and analyse documentation in in response to receipt of new information or any change to initial assumptions.
• Lead the end-to-end development of project documentation including communications, testing, change management strategies and training, testing, process mapping and plans in order to sustain digital transformation.
• Comply with best practice and delivery methodologies and processes to ensure the Centre of Excellence aligns to international standards and expectations.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure risks are managed according to agreed risk frameworks.
• Manage regular status reporting to provide complete transparency and assurance of the project's timely progress and management of risk.
• Contribute to the Centre of Excellence for Business Analysis, e.g. meeting attendance, knowledge up-skilling/sharing to build confidence in the Centre of Excellence across the Business.
• As a high performing member of the Team, support the Centre of Excellence and Section to complete any activities required to achieve successful outcomes for the Business Unit.

Business Performance

• Participate in the development of Team's strategic plans, and then working to that plan, develop and implement operational and tactical plans to achieve Team objectives and outcomes.
• Manage and coordinate work within Team, ensuring alignment to and support of other Team's activities within the Section.
• Work with management to ensure all required resources are available to allow Team operations to function smoothly. Identify and resolve resourcing issues and restrictions.
• Monitor and measure Team performance against identified KPIs and make necessary changes and adjustments to deliver expected financial and organisational performance and outcomes. Develop and deliver required management information reports.
• Ensure all Team activities comply with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements, corporate policy, procedures, and standards.
• Monitor and maintain relevant controls, identify risks and work with Section Manager to mitigate risks and maintain operational delivery.
• Stay up to date with latest thinking and best practice approaches and make recommendations for improvements and changes to continuously improve service delivery and drive operational excellence.

People Management and Leadership

• Provide leadership that engages, motivates, and inspires the team to deliver high performance.
• Build employee capability through mentoring, coaching, performance feedback and provision of development.
• Proactively support the introduction and management of change, working within the agreed approach to ensure that employees are engaged, and benefits are achieved.

Essential Appointment Criteria

• Degree in Business Administration, Technology, Computer Science or equivalent

OR

• Certification with the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) or equivalent

And

• Considerable experience in applying the IIBA BABOK and IIBA Agile Extension
• Substantial experience as a Business Analyst or equivalent.
• Substantial Experience in having worked within a large multi-disciplinary organisation going through transformation.
• Considerable experience in applying of agile principles and methodologies including Scrum and/or XP, Lean and Kanban Software Development
• Considerable experience in managing, organising, and reporting functional activities to deliver organisational outcomes.

Knowledge, Skills & Attributes

Job Specific

• Models' systems and data to a logical level, user interface design, and prototyping, decision tables/trees, data flows
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience in applying modelling notation (UML, Structured, BPMN)
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience in writing unambiguous, verified requirements to a testable level (functional and non-functional requirements)
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Knowledge and demonstrated experience in applying technology system interfaces and data integration, networks, operating systems particularly.
• Considerable experience in the planning, design, acquisition, or operational delivery of an investment program

Personal Attributes

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills
• Excellent workshop facilitation and requirements gathering skills.
• Excellent English writing and documentation skills
• High levels of personal responsibility and accountability with strong focus on results delivery
• Proactive and positive with a forward-thinking working style
• Desirable (Qualifications, experience and competencies that are not essential for appointment)
• Knowledge of and ability to apply latest thinking and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strategic understanding and approach, with ability to connect related themes and issues from disparate areas to inform decision making.

If this role interests you, please apply below.