Business Analyst (Information Technology & Business Projects)

Evolve your career with a lifestyle like no other!

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you can apply your skills and experience in providing high-quality business analysis services across a portfolio of key technology and business projects? If so, this is the opportunity for you.

This role will allow you to showcase your creativity, problem-solving and innovative approach into the project management environment, whilst delivering exceptional services for our communities. You will be responsible for providing business analysis services for key Information Technology and Business-related projects within Council.

About us

Alpine Shire Council is a values-based organisation that delivers meaningful outcomes for its community.  We are led by Councillors and a leadership team that genuinely cares, and at our core, passionate colleagues who enjoy what they do. We offer flexible work-life balance and invest in our peoples’ professional development.

Renowned as one of Victoria’s premier holiday destinations located in the stunning high-country. This spectacular region is an adventure, nature and foodie lover’s paradise, just a stone’s throw from the Victorian ski fields.

At Alpine Shire Council we offer our employees

• A collaborative work environment, with a supportive leadership team.
• Genuine work-life balance with a range of flexible work options.
• Monthly RDO
• Forget about long commutes and paid parking.
• A lifestyle like no other!

How you'll make a difference

This is one of the best roles to collaborate with everyone in council. Working closely with business stakeholders across the organisation on a portfolio that is full of interesting and varied projects.

Your formal qualifications backed by industry experience will guide you in identifying opportunities for improvement, whether that be through innovative ways of working or introducing different methodologies into Information Technology and Business projects.

We are open to meeting those with previous high-quality business analysis and project delivery experience working across various technology and business projects coupled with excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills.

In your role, you will be responsible for:

• Responsible for providing end-to-end business analysis services, including but not limited to, requirements elicitation and management, stakeholder management and communication, development of high-quality documentation, and providing quality assurance, process improvement and capability development. 
• Work across a portfolio of key technology and business facing projects in areas such as decision making, records management, finance, communication and collaboration, customer experience, and human resources.
• Work closely with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to understand and capture business needs, objectives, and challenges, and translate them into detailed documentation including business requirements, functional specifications, solution designs, process flows, use cases, user stories, and procedures.
• Collaborate with project team members to help define project scope, objectives, and deliverables and assist in project management planning, progress reporting, and ongoing identification of issues, risks, and benefits.
• Support the business in their transition and help to establish required change.
• Participating in system testing, user acceptance testing, and validation of implemented solutions meet specified requirements and are of high-quality.
• Recommend process improvements and assist in their implementation.
• Supporting and developing the ongoing business analysis capability. 

You will have the potential to achieve outstanding outcomes with an innovative approach and undertake these responsibilities in a professional, efficient and timely manner. You will deliver services in compliance with relevant legislation, and in a way which provides best value to Council.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• A degree qualification in a relevant business and or information technology/ information systems or comparable business analysis and project delivery experience with certification (e.g. BABOK) in industry.
• Demonstrated experience working across various technology and business facing projects, systems, and functional solutions, ideally relating to decision making, records management, finance, communication and collaboration, customer experience, and human resources.
• Demonstrated excellence in communication and engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders, internal and external.
• Experience in Local Government advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience in a similar role.
• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality work.
• Have a strong and proactive customer service focus.

Apply now

• Fixed Term Full Time position, based in Bright.
• Band 7 classification, from $94,822 per annum
• Opportunity to work on diverse and exciting projects.
• Alpine Shire Council welcomes people from a diverse range of backgrounds. People of all genders, ages and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
• Contact Sam Boyall, Business Analyst (Information Technology & Business Projects) (03) 5755 0555

Please note: Recruitment activity will commence prior to closing date, so don’t delay submitting your application. Council reserves the right to appoint a candidate into the role prior to the closing date. Applicants will be kept updated on the status of their application.