About the Role
The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for assessing the overall information technology needs of assigned projects/programs. With a focus on delivering value-driven solutions, the role will collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure business needs are accurately captured and addressed. This role facilitates communication between technical and non-technical teams to improve business efficiency and productivity.
Responsibilities
- Assess overall information technology needs of assigned projects/programs.
- Deliver value-driven solutions.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders, including project managers, developers, and end-users.
- Ensure business needs are accurately captured and addressed.
- Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical teams.
- Ensure clear understanding of business requirements and technical capabilities.
- Improve business efficiency and productivity.
- Guide the implementation of fit-for-purpose solutions.
Requirements
- Strong analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and processes and translate these into practical application and operational solutions.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively and understand business contexts through a variety of techniques and forums (workshops, individual meetings, shared documents etc.).
- Demonstrated experience in facilitation of business requirement gathering workshops involving participants from senior management to business users.
- Demonstrated ability to produce requirement artefacts: e.g. Business Requirements documentation, Functional Specifications, data flow diagrams.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully operate within a geographically dispersed team.
- Competent and proficient understanding of the application of Project Management disciplines.
- Competent and proficient understanding of Enterprise application platforms ERP, CRM, and/or HRIS.
- Demonstrated ability to assess, evaluate and solve problems and exercise initiative and judgment where practices and procedures are not clearly defined.
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Facilitation
- Business requirement gathering
- Producing requirement artefacts
- Project Management disciplines
- Enterprise application platforms (ERP, CRM, HRIS)
- Problem assessment, evaluation, and solving
- Initiative and judgment
Location
- Sydney
- Melbourne
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary + superannuation + access to salary packaging
Benefits
- Hybrid working model (two days on-site, three days from home)
- Salary packaging up to $15,900 for living expenses
- Salary packaging for holiday accommodation and meals
- Novated car leases
- Salary packaging for superannuation
- Purchase additional annual leave
- Paid 'Me' day
- Wide range of other paid leave options
- Specialist health and wellbeing advice
- Access to ongoing learning, training, and development
About the Company
- Australian Red Cross is part of the world’s largest humanitarian movement.
- We support and empower people and communities in times of vulnerability.
- We act for humanity.
- Red Cross strives to create a safe and inclusive culture with wellbeing at its centre.
- We embrace diversity and welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with diverse lived experiences, abilities, genders, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations.
- We are a child safe organisation with zero tolerance of any harm to children.
- Our vision is to be trusted as the leading humanitarian organisation making a genuine difference in the lives of people and communities.
Equal Opportunity
- We embrace diversity and welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with diverse lived experiences, abilities, genders, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations.
