Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analysts (Product) – Brisbane or Perth, Australia

*Multiple positions*

At Rio Tinto, we’re finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. For nearly 150 years we’ve been looking for new and better ways of doing things. Today you'll find our teams around the world doing just that: seeking opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint, partnering to develop new technologies to decarbonise steel and aluminium production, and creating new products from waste. 

 As part of the commitment to our purpose, Rio Tinto continues to build a world-class software product development team. Sitting within our company wide Information Systems & Technology function, our Products & Software Development (P&SD) team is focused on delivering high value and strategic products for the digital transformation of Rio Tinto. We’re excited by the challenging problems we have to solve and supported by a culture that is value driven, diverse and inclusive, innovative, and fun. We think you might be surprised about what we’re creating here at Rio Tinto.

About The Product Team You’ll Be Joining

We are committed to making a meaningful difference to the 49,000 people across Rio Tinto as they do their day-to-day jobs through our software. To do that well, and to deliver on our promises as a business, we know that user-centred approaches to software development matters. Across the landscape of software products needed to support a business of our size, we need to grow our Business Analysis team to several times its current size. Make no mistake, this is a unique opportunity to grow personally along with helping to scale a team that is driving new product development.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Business Analyst (Product) you will be:

• Researching to understand different stakeholders’ needs, in order to translate them into requirements and software features.
• Defining the product specifications and acceptance criteria to help design, deploy and adopt custom software products within the company.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (designers, product owners, solution architects, software developers, testers) to design and deliver elegant, compelling, and user-friendly products.
• Applying various business analysis techniques (example: interviews, workshops, prioritization, acceptance, and evaluation criteria) to create valuable inputs for the cross-functional team.
• Creating and keeping up to date the product backlog in coordination with the product owner/manager (creating user stories and acceptance criteria from the product vision and epics).
• Working closely with engineering teams and ensuring that user stories are implemented in line with the product vision and timelines.
• Working closely with the user experience (UX) team to effectively understand user needs, the end-to-end user experience, and then translate those details into product requirements.
• Confidently building working relationships and partnering with a variety of senior level stakeholders across the business while you build rich understanding of business domains.
• Working on projects of varying lengths and complexity while helping to elevate our team’s capabilities around business analysis and product development.

What We Are Looking For

As our ideal Senior Business Analyst:

• You will have a track record of running methodical investigations and analysis to understand and implement effective business solutions and improve processes.
• You have an agile mindset, are willing to go the extra mile to make an impact to the business and you are excited by making a difference.
• You are a business analyst who is naturally curious, passionate about our customers, and driven to create products that are accessible, functional, and consistent across Rio Tinto’s portfolio.
• You can effectively analyse and breakdown complex business problems and translate them into logical, simple components that can be brought into the development process.
• You can facilitate effective communication between various organizational units, either internal or external to the team.
• You have worked in business environments where compliance with relevant legislation and regulations is essential.
• You have demonstrated adaptability for working in unfamiliar contexts: business domain, project life cycle, team-specific ways of working.
• You have experience is measuring and monitoring product performance to ensure the expected business outcomes are being met.
• You are willing to communicate, advise on best practice, build consensus and rapport with different stakeholders: our internal users, product owners, developers, leadership team and user experience (UX) designers.
• You are comfortable working in a high pace and iterative environment across cross-functional teams and can simplify complex problems.
• You appreciate big picture thinking & problem solving and while details are everything, creating an experience that always keeps our users in mind is equally important.
• You demonstrate alignment with Rio Tinto’s values of Care, Courage and Curiosity.

And it’s essential that you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or other related discipline, or equivalent experience or training.
• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner applying modern software development planning and delivery techniques (including defining business requirements and creating user stories).
• Demonstrable ability to translate business needs into solution requirements and define those in a written format that allows engineering teams to align behind the product vision.
• Worked with cross-functional teams using agile methodology from inception through implementation to deliver impactful software products.
• Experience in creating and implementing efficient solutions to optimise the customer journey and user experience.

Working At Rio Tinto

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress. Our benefits for permanent Rio Tinto employees include:

• Your base salary reflects your skills, experience, and impact in the role you are performing in. Our salary ranges are reviewed annually to ensure they remain fair internally and externally.
• Health & Wellbeing. We care about your health. We offer flexible, comprehensive medical benefits to look after your total health and wellbeing to suit your needs and life stages. This includes subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family.
• Flexible Work Arrangements. We have a hybrid work model (in-office & from home), with our office always open to balancing flexibility and connection.
• Supportive Leave Policies. We enable leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation, sick, paid parental). Our inclusive parental leave policy supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
• Growth & Development. We will support you to pursue growth and development opportunities aligned with your career aspirations.
• Employee Discount & Offers. We have established partnerships with several providers who offer access to exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, car, retail and more).
• Superannuation & Shares. Extensive salary sacrifice and salary packing options. Plus, we offer an award-winning employee share plan – myShare.

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.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we challenge you to drive positive change.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

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