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
• Be part of a group that is safety focused and values inclusion
• Permanent position based in Perth, Australia

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a motivated Senior Business Analyst to support the delivery of IS&T projects. In your day-to-day, you will work closely with the program / portfolio managers, business partners and various stakeholders to undertake business analysis activities through each project phase. You will also work as part of the BA team to contribute to the development and maintenance of the BA practise in a collaborative manner.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Principal Team Lead – Business Analyst and working in a collaborative and supportive 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.
• Working with stakeholders to understand business problems, conduct discoveries, identify potential benefits and available options for consideration and in defining acceptance tests.
• Capturing and documenting business requirements and translating them into functional and non-functional requirements.
• Facilitating, presenting, and managing workshops at various sizes.
• Contributing to BA practice establishment and providing ongoing support to drive collaboration and strengthen BA capability within the team.
• Identifying needs in new project resource demand and assisting team lead with resourcing.
• Following our Waterfall / Agile / Studies / Systems engineering methodologies.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety and wellbeing of yourself and your team
• Broad IT knowledge with curiosity to learn unfamiliar domain.
• 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 (functional and non-functional), workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, etc.
• Effective communication between various organisational units, either internal or external to the team. 
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Waterfall / Agile project delivery experience.

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 goals.
• 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

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for over 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll 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

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.

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.