Senior Business Analyst

Job title : Senior Business Analyst
Location : Melbourne
Job type : Permanent or Full Time
Job reference : 1228522
The Company:
My client is a market leading Automotive Sector Group with established and developing businesses across accident replacement vehicles, financial services and subscription growth car ownership across Australia and New Zealand. They are face paced and dynamic with an aggressive growth agenda across several vertical and horizontal businesses
 
The Position:
As a member of the technology team, reporting to the Director of Technology, you will be responsible for Business Analysis activities for multiple initiatives and projects across the group. There are many exciting new projects with new technologies and new lines of businesses for you to roll up your sleeves and get involved in.

Your Responsibilities:
  • Eliciting, documenting, prioritising and validating functional and non-functional requirements for projects and initiatives
  • Holding workshops with stakeholders (ranging from department heads to end users and customers) to elicit, validate, prioritise and document requirements
  • Identifying the system solution to requirements obtained from the business stakeholders whilst considering organisation constraints
  • Understanding the impact of a proposed solution to the existing IT landscape
  • Management of the IT supplier end to end engagement (scope, requirements, build, testing, hand over to production team)
  • Project management of all technology initiatives from start to finish
  • Reporting status of all technology initiatives from start to finish
  • Scan the market for emerging technologies that either meet a business need or present a competitive advantage to our business
  • Lead the evaluation of technologies against business requirements
  • Identity, analyse, develop and implement improvements to the organisation application landscape
  • Providing input and continual improvements to the IT strategy
Experience Required:
  • Minimum 5-7 years Business Analysis experience with a strong technical background
  • Knowledge of the automotive and/or automotive insurance industry (desirable)
  • Business Analysis experience (both with requirements and process modelling) both in a waterfall and agile environment
  • Experience in performing gap analysis and impact analysis
  • Knowledge and experience in working through complex solution and architecture decisions when responding to a business requirement
  • Experience working with IT vendors and IT development teams to implement solutions into an organisation
  • Experience with software selection / request for proposals
  • Knowledge of cloud based application architecture (specifically AWS) (advantageous)
  • Experience of SaaS technologies in a hybrid environment