The Role
Analyzes business functions, elicits requirements, maps workflows, defines project scope, and supports Agile and Waterfall project delivery. Facilitates workshops, manages stakeholders, risks, issues, budgets, forecasts, release planning, testing, and status reporting. Creates specifications and documentation while improving systems and processes through collaboration with Product Owners, subject matter experts, and distributed teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Responsibilities:
Assists with internal and external communication by transparently radiating information
Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats
Workshops facilitation and requirements elicitation
Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications
Improve systems by studying current practices; designing modifications
Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases and elements.
Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
Assist with the development of detailed and comprehensive project plans
Report and escalate as needed
Manage the relationship with all stakeholders and their expectations accordingly
Risk & Issue Management
Conflict management - Identify differences in understanding and issues as they arise and elevate them to the team for resolution, or to management if needed
Create and maintain documentation as required
Timely and accurate communication and distribution of information
Assist with managing Agile/Waterfall projects - release planning, budgets, forecasting and status reporting
Work with Product Owners to ensure that testing and feedback is completed in a timely manner and meeting the Sprint timelines
Accountability - take ownership of assigned tasks and pro-actively managing priorities
Growth mindset - improve based on lessons learned / feedback
Skills:
Attention to detail and ability to interact with a diverse group of senior stakeholders, managers and subject matter experts
Able to work with distributed teams and able to achieve outcomes
Attention to detail and ability to interact with a diverse group of stakeholders, managers and subject matter experts
Resilience - Ability to handle resistance to change
Accountability - Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and pro-actively managing priorities
Growth mindset - to improve based on lessons learned / feedback
Open to new ways of working – focus on setting fit for purpose agile models rather than enforcing core agile principles if it is not useful
Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Requirements:
Extensive experience in Business Analysis (over 5 years of experience)
Knowledge of Project Management methodologies
Experience in using MS Office suite, SharePoint, Visio, Jira and confluence
Experience/knowledge on managing Agile/Waterfall projects - release planning, budgets, forecasting and status reporting
Skills Required
- Over 5 years of experience in business analysis
- Knowledge of project management methodologies
- Experience using Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience using SharePoint
- Experience using Visio
- Experience using Jira
- Experience using Confluence
- Experience or knowledge managing Agile and Waterfall projects, including release planning, budgets, forecasting, and status reporting
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and multitasking ability
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The Company
What We Do
XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd is a technology consulting and software services company serving clients across banking, financial services and insurance, telecommunications, mining, retail, energy, and manufacturing. It provides software development, IT management consulting, business analysis, project and program management, infrastructure support, and offshore development through onsite-offshore delivery. The company also works with cloud computing, big data, mobile applications, UI/UX, algorithms, and IoT.
