Business Analyst

Purpose of position:

The Business Analyst will work within the Criminal Intelligence Assessment project team. The team is responsible for designing and delivering a new Criminal Intelligence Assessment capability within the agency. The new capability will use national criminal intelligence holdings to improve background checking to detect, exclude and remove individuals who have a credible, usable, recent and strong link to serious and organised crime within the aviation and maritime sectors.

The CIA Project is a legislation-driven project that has complex business problems and opportunities which require ongoing business analyst support to ensure it successfully delivers new or enhanced capabilities for the ACIC.

The Business Analysts will focus on strategic stakeholder engagement and analysis of business processes with internal ACIC teams, partners and other Commonwealth agencies to enable the ACIC to deliver the CIA project service.

The occupant of this position will be responsible for:

• developing and reviewing business requirements, use cases, and user scenarios relating to the development of new or enhanced capability;
• methodically investigating, analysing, gathering and reviewing existing and new business requirements to meet stakeholder objectives;
• researching and analysing specific information systems and technologies;
• making recommendations for enhancements to proposed capabilities.

Accountabilities & responsibilities:

The key accountabilities and responsibilities include:

• gathering, analysing, evaluating and documenting business requirements from a variety of sources, in accordance with the ACIC’s governance framework;
• identifying, developing and supporting the development of business cases, capability blueprints and concepts of operations, working with a range of stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic objectives;
• developing and delivering high quality documentation which may include business process models, business requirements and process design documentation for new and existing systems;
• analysing current business systems and software products to determine approaches that will improve performance and integrity of the interface between system users, the operating system and applications software;
• exploring all possibilities and designing alternatives to address problems and identify solutions;
• facilitating business requirements workshops to enable the development of innovative solutions to highly complex business issues;
• building and maintaining strong relationships with relevant stakeholders to ensure the ACIC’s and partner agencies’ project activities and milestones are achieved;
• working collaboratively as a key partner with project delivery managers, project managers, systems developers and the ACIC’s partners;
• ensuring documentation adheres to the ACIC’s project management methodology and quality standards;
• contributing to the continuous improvement of the ACIC’s project governance framework, System Development Lifecycle framework and Business Analyst Group;
• using well-developed written and verbal communication skills to develop briefings for senior internal and external stakeholders;
• representing your work area at relevant meetings and forums; and
• demonstrating initiative to deliver quality outcomes.

Selection criteria:

The following are the specific selection criteria for the role:

1. Demonstrated experience in the analysis of complex business problems
2. Demonstrated ability to facilitate the development of business processes to uplift and deliver new capabilities for the ACIC.
3. Demonstrated knowledge of the ACIC operating environment.

All CVs must be 2 pages or less, and may include an additional 1-page statement addressing the individual applicant’s suitability against the selection criteria.