Senior Business Analyst

Job Description

An exciting opportunity for a Cross Functional Senior Business Analyst to join a leading Government Department on a 6 month contract.

This leading Government Department is seeking a Cross Functional Senior Business Analyst for a 6 month contract, based in Macquarie Park. In this role 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 role acts as the pivotal link between the business units and ICT.

Your Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Identify, develop and implement business improvement opportunities on proposed and completed projects across a portfolio of complex initiatives.
• Bring to bear extensive experience in the application of industry standard frameworks and methodologies to drive increased maturity in ICTs internal processes.
• Prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.Ensure technical specifications are developed that communicate user requirements in technical terms for submission to systems development teams.
• Lead the development, implementation and improvement of efficient and comprehensive monitoring and reporting systems required to support the management of projects.
• As required undertake or support post implementation benefits realisation reviews of projects.

Skills and Experience:

• 6+ years of experience as business analyst.
• Proven experience in delivering strategic initiatives from concept to implementation and validation of benefits.
• Extensive and demonstrated experience leading/conducting analysis of business needs across a complex portfolio of initiatives in a federated or multi-sourced environment.
• Ability to balance business and technology stakeholders equally and translate between the two.
• Strong knowledge of and extensive experience in the application of BABOK and Agile.
• Government experience desirable.