Senior Procurement Business Analyst

Multiple roles available

Client - Department of Finance

Rate & term - $140 per hour including Super | 6 month initial contract | 2.5 year extension options

Location & work arrangements - Canberra - Hybrid - 3 days in office per week is required.

Working hours - 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week.

Role Description

The Department of Finance (Finance) is looking to engage a Senior Business Analyst (BA) with a strong procurement background to provide support to the ICT Contracts and Procurement team within the ICT Division.

The BA will be responsible for:

• working closely with stakeholders to gather, develop and refine detailed business requirements; and
• Translate these business requirements into procurement documentation, ensuring they are robust and fit for purpose to seek the necessary approvals and to approach the market effectively.

The BA will play a key role in bridging the gap between business needs and procurement processes, ensuring user requirements are accurately defined and translated into actionable procurement documents. Collaboration with application developers, product managers, scrum masters, testers, and designers will be essential to deliver high-quality outcomes iteratively and incrementally.

Given the complexity, variety and volume of work managed by the ICT Contracts and Procurement team, strong business analysis experience and procurement expertise is critical to maintaining delivery momentum. The addition of a highly skilled BA will enable the team to efficiently oversee complex initiatives, promote best practices, transfer knowledge and foster capability development across the team.

Key Duties

The BA will work at the direction of APS Officials and will focus on the following key duties:

• Identification and analysis of business problems, defining business rules, and gathering and developing requirements.
• Provide assistance with the creation and prioritisation of business area requirements, including developing acceptance criteria.
• Capability uplift of business and requirement analysis and translation for current ICT Contracts and Procurement team members, providing experience and knowledge transfer to team members.
• Develop the following types of document & business artefacts through to acceptance:
• Business Requirements Documentation
• Functional Requirements Specification 3. Process Models & Workflows
• Statement of Requirements for Request for Tenders/Proposals
• Gap Analysis
• Stakeholder Analysis & Engagement Plans
• Data Models & Business Rules
• Solution Assessment & Recommendations
• Traceability Matrix
• Test Plans & Support for UAT
• Change Management & Training Materials
• Conduct moderate to complex procurement activities, including contract management and service delivery in alignment with Finance's internal processes and guidance, the ICT Contracts and Procurement teams own processes, and the CPRs and the Commonwealth Procurement Framework
• Reprioritise and adjust focus in response to customer feedback and shifting business needs.
• Conduct frequent and continuous customer collaboration throughout the development process, with regular feedback sessions and demonstrations.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams that include developers, testers, and other stakeholders, emphasising collaboration and teamwork

Highly Desirable Criteria

• Engage in an iterative and incremental project lifecycle, with the ability to adapt to changing requirements and priorities throughout the development process.
• Ability to embrace change and respond dynamically to emerging business challenges.
• Experience in Government settings.
• Knowledge of ICT government procurement, CPRs, coordinated procurement and the Commonwealth Procurement Framework
• 5+ years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst.
• Relevant experience in ICT Government procurement, specifically including requirement translation and drafting.

About Arctic Fox

We are a panel supplier into the Federal Government's Digital Marketplace. We leverage our practical experience and expertise in business and technology transformation to source and place exceptional people across all Federal Government Departments. As practising Project Delivery professionals we have a genuine understanding and appreciation for the work that our contractors undertake. We provide end to end contract management including payroll and insurance.

We provide holistic support for candidates throughout the unique application process for Federal Government opportunities. This includes:

• Completing a collaborative review of the client brief with each candidate to ensure that the candidate is suitable for the opportunity.
• Undertaking a thorough review of selection criteria responses to provide feedback, insight, guidance and editing services.
• Being open and transparent with information regarding margins and on costs - we provide an open cost book for all candidates to give you assurance that excessive margins are not being placed on top of your contracted rate.