Senior Business Analyst

Country/Region: AU

State: WA

City: Perth

Job ID: 12643

Work Location: Perth – Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation.

Roster: Monday to Friday

The Senior Business Analyst will play a critical role in identifying business needs, analysing systems, and ensuring solutions align with business goals. They will work closely with various stakeholders, both business and technical, to define requirements, design solutions, and implement strategies that drive efficiency and effectiveness across the organisation.

This role will help with providing direction to other business analysts, collaborate with stakeholders and provide expert insights to guide decision making at high-level.

The Senior Business analyst conducts in-depth analysis of business operations, identifies pain points, opportunities for improvement and aligns business needs with system requirements.

• Lead and oversee business analysis activities on projects, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.
• Mentor and guide junior business analysts, assign tasks, reviewing work and fostering team collaborations.
• Prepare comprehensive reports and presentations to communicate analysis results, insights, and recommendations to relevant stakeholders.
• Provide expertise during the implementation of new systems, ensuring they align with business processes and objectives.
• Lead interviews, workshops and surveys to elicit detailed business requirements from stakeholders.
• Assessing business needs by conducting analysis of business operations.
• Develop and evaluate potential solutions to address business needs including feasibility assessment, cost-benefit analysis and project scope definition.
• Managing key stakeholders, effectively communicate findings and recommendations to diverse stakeholders including senior management, technical teams and end-users.
• Support the transition to new systems or processes by providing training and documentation.
• Design, document and maintain business process diagrams & Requirements.
• Managing stakeholder communication.

• Degree in Computer Science, Business or similar field (desirable).
• 10+ years of work experience in a Business Analyst role.

• Strong leadership and team management skills.

• Experience in conducting requirement gathering workshops and gap analysis.

• Experience in developing Business analysis documents using relevant tools such as JIRA, Confluence.

• Experience in providing product strategy decision making.

• Experience of working in Agile teams and knowledge of Scrum Ceremonies.

• Excellent written and verbal communication to clearly articulate complex concepts to various audiences.
• Proficient in business analysis methodologies and tools (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, UML, BPMN).
• Strong Analytical skills.
• Understanding of business operations, financial metrics and industry trends.
• Capability to build relationships and manage expectations with diverse stakeholders.

• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability.

• Familiarity with software development lifecycle.

• Knowledge of data management systems (desirable).

• Knowledge in generating process documentation.

• Knowledge in Release Management & Change management activities.

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.