Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

• Tremendous opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Great work life balance and attractive benefits
• Permanent position based in Perth, Australia

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

About the role:

We are looking for a motivated Senior Business Analyst to support the delivery of IS&T projects within the nominated portfolio. You will work with various stakeholders on projects in the Ideate phase and provide guidance and insights to ensure successful project shaping to progress to the next phase.

This role is a great opportunity to build broad business network and gain understanding across multiple business domains.

Reporting to the Principal Team Lead – Business Analyst, APAC-West and working in a collaborative and exciting environment within our global Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) team, you will have responsibility for the following:

• Business analysis planning and monitoring whereby you will plan work engagement with stakeholders.
• Engage appropriate audience/resources from both IS&T and the business and conduct effective communications for requirement gathering.
• Understand business needs, conduct discovery and analysis activities, and define scope for projects in Ideate phase.
• Provide insights and guidance on prioritisation, project sizing, cost estimation and resource requirement.
• Provide estimates for fit for purpose requirement model and relevant business analysis activities.
• Explore options with stakeholders to support decision making.
• Create relevant documents in agile and/or waterfall environment.
• Contribute to BA best practice establishment and provide peer review to ensure consistent BA methodologies and standards across the portfolio.
• Identify competency needs and assist with sourcing.
• Follow our Waterfall / Agile / Studies / Systems engineering methodologies.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Broad IT knowledge with understanding of both software & hardware infrastructure technologies
• Demonstrable ability to unpack and translate business needs and experience with project scoping and requirement elicitation in IT domain.
• Experience with various analysis techniques and deliverables such as documentation (technical and functional), workshop facilitation, stakeholder management and BPMN skills
• Oral and verbal communication skills
• Collaboration, influencing, negotiation, organisational & time management abilities
• Waterfall / Agile project delivery experience

Beneficial but not mandatory

• Studies experience
• Mining industry experience
• Business Analysis Accreditations – BABOK, Agile/Scrum certifications, etc.
• Knowledge of ITIL Service Management Framework
• Experience with full system development life cycle

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you have helped the world progress. 

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidized private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance
• Flexible working arrangements.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps. Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services. 

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds. 

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.