As Senior Business Analyst you will be responsible for driving high level analysis and strategic advice to support ICT project decision making, planning and delivery across a portfolio of complex initiatives.
The key responsibilities of this role include:
- Business Analysis Across a portfolio of complex initiatives, take responsibility for investigative work to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes through improvements in information systems, information management, practices, procedures, and organisational change. Apply and monitor the use of required modelling and analysis tools, methods and standards, giving special consideration to business perspectives
- Design and Development of Systems and Processes Identify, develop and implement business improvement opportunities on proposed and completed projects across a portfolio of complex initiatives. Also identify and develop opportunities for improving investment planning and delivery processes, developing proposals to senior management to address high priority issues.
- Maturity of Business Analysis Capability Bring to bear extensive experience in the application of industry standard frameworks and methodologies to drive increased maturity in ICTs internal processes in the areas of Business Analysis and Business Process Management.
- Stakeholder/Relationship Management - . Assist the Business Analysis Practice Manager, Principal Manager Business Solutions, Project Managers and Solution Architects to build positive working relationships with stakeholders. Be able to work directly with senior management in understanding their strategic objectives.
- Teamwork / Leadership - Work cooperatively within a team, exchange information and assist other team members to achieve team objectives and work outcomes. Manage other business analysts on large and complex pieces of work.
- Business Case Development Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks. Identify stakeholders and their business needs.
- Technical Specifications Ensure technical specifications are developed that communicate user requirements in technical terms for submission to systems development project teams.
- Monitoring and Reporting - Lead the development, implementation and improvement of efficient and comprehensive monitoring and reporting systems required to support the management of projects
The ideal candidate will posses:
- Extensive and demonstrated experience leading/conducting analysis of business needs across a complex portfolio of initiatives in a federated or multi-sourced environment.
- Strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and requirements elicitation experience.
- Strong experience in migrating services onto a Cloud based environment
- Strong technical business analysis able to understand data flows and data integration
- Strong experience in process mapping and setup of operational support models
- Ability to balance business and technology stakeholders equally and translate between the two.
- Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of; and extensive experience in the application of; contemporary business analysis best-practice methodologies and processes such as BABOK and UML. This includes leading and mentoring other business analysts in the application of these methodologies and processes.
- Strong interpersonal skills including, a strong ability to communicate and influence effectively across the most senior levels of the organisation as well as externally with vendors.
- Proven experience interpreting and translating analysis results into insightful, clear and succinct technical specifications and requirement documentation with tangible examples of where insights from best-practice analysis methodologies have resulted in value adding business outcomes.
- Superior analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills including report writing and presentation skills with emphasis on developing quality technical specifications.
- Proven experience working independently and/or with multidisciplinary teams including the management and mentoring of other business analysts.
- Ability to operate within the values of impartiality; integrity; trust; service; accountability and safety. To carry out responsibilities with professionalism, fairness and commitment and to do so in order to place the customer at the centre of all that is produced and delivered.
- Relevant Tertiary qualification or equivalent experience with at least 8-10 years experience in business analysis. CBAP or equivalent certification preferred.
If you are a Senior/Lead Business analyst and feel you meet the above criteria, please APPLY now or contact Olivia Lewis via email [Apply online]
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