Principal Business Analyst (005578)

Location

Hobart

Period of Appointment

Permanent

Hours per fortnight

73.5 hours per fortnight 

Duties

• Conduct in-depth analyses into complex and often ambiguous business scenarios to uncover underlying issues, opportunities and organisational impacts, to ultimately provide well-founded recommendations for improvement.
• Evaluate business change proposals, assess viability, and provide strategic and expert advice on business requirements to guide decision making, while simultaneously managing expectations and resolving conflict when advice and demands diverge.
• Autonomously lead initiatives to improve business processes, applying structured methodologies and delivering high-quality business analysis, project and change management outputs, as well as procurement documentation and contracts.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with DPFEM stakeholders, from end users to senior leadership, ensuring their requirements, expectations, and priorities are clearly understood and effectively translated into business outcomes across the requisite portfolios.
• Lead, mentor, and support a team of Junior Business Analysts in all aspects of business analysis and its application within the DPFEM environment.
• The incumbent can expect to be allocated duties, not specifically mentioned in this document that are within the capacity, qualifications and experience normally expected from persons occupying positions at this classification level.

Essential Requirements

Pre-Employment Checks 

The Head of the State Service has determined that a person nominated for appointment to this position is to satisfy a pre-employment check before taking up the appointment, promotion or transfer. Any relevant serious criminal offence or repeated serious offences over any period, which are not mitigated by additional information, may provide grounds for declining an application for appointment. Such offences would include, but are not limited to:

• Arson and fire setting;
• Sexual offences;
• Dishonesty (e.g. theft, burglary, breaking and entering, fraud);
• Deception (e.g. obtaining an advantage by deception);
• Making false declarations;
• Violent crimes and crimes against the person;
• Malicious damage and destruction to property
• Trafficking of narcotic substance;
• False alarm raising. 

Desirable Requirements

Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or commensurate experience.

Experience in the delivery and management of complex business and technology related projects involving multiple agencies/organisations.

Statement of Duties and Associated Documents

Short Form Application Guidelines for Applicants Final.DOCX

Short Form Application Guidelines for Applicants Final.pdf

005578 - SoD - Principal Business Analyst - OoCITO - Band 7.docx

005578 - SoD - Principal Business Analyst - OoCITO - Band 7.pdf

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