Principal Business Analyst

Sharp & Carter; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Government is seeking a Principal Business Analyst to lead enterprise workforce transformation efforts in Brisbane. The role focuses on analysing current and future HR processes, workforce data, and operational needs, delivering streamlined employee lifecycle processes and better system outcomes.

You will collaborate with business, technology teams and senior leadership to elicit requirements, document current-state and future-state processes, and translate complex needs into

Qualifications

• Experience delivering business analysis across enterprise-scale transformation programs.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into practical functional solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis of current and future-state business processes and workforce data.
• Elicit, validate and document requirements with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Design improved future-state workflows and drive process reengineering.
• Translate requirements into fit-for-purpose solution outcomes and document for technical audiences.
• Support knowledge transfer and capability uplift.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Process improvement

Requirements elicitation

HCM experience

Tools

SAP HCM

Job description

Principal Business Analyst | Workforce Transformation

Brisbane CBD | Queensland Government | Contract opportunity

Lead business analysis on a significant workforce transformation initiative, helping improve HR processes and employee mobility across a large, complex organisation.

We are seeking an experienced Principal Business Analyst to support a major enterprise workforce program, working with stakeholders across the organisation to define requirements, improve business processes and shape effective solution outcomes.

The opportunity

You will lead the analysis of current and future-state business processes, workforce data and operational requirements, helping deliver more streamlined HR and employee lifecycle processes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading business, user, data and operational requirements analysis.
• Engaging stakeholders across the organisation to elicit, validate and document requirements.
• Analysing current-state processes and designing improved future-state workflows.
• Driving process reengineering and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and user experience.
• Translating complex business requirements into fit-for-purpose solution outcomes.
• Producing high-quality documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Supporting knowledge transfer and capability uplift within the organisation.

About you

You will bring strong experience delivering business analysis across complex, enterprise-scale transformation programs, with the ability to work confidently across business stakeholders, technology teams and senior project leadership.

Ideally, you will demonstrate:

• Experience working on large-scale Human Capital Management (HCM) programs or projects.
• Strong business process analysis, requirements elicitation and process improvement capability.
• Experience documenting current-state and future-state processes.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• The ability to translate complex business needs into practical functional solutions.
• Experience working across multidisciplinary project teams in complex environments.

Experience with SAP HCM is desirable.

Engagement details

• Location: Brisbane CBD
• Working arrangements: Full-time, with flexible and remote arrangements potentially available subject to approval and operational requirements.
• Hours: Standard hours are specified as 8-10 hours per day, five days per week, unless otherwise agreed.
• Some work outside standard business hours may be required to support project milestones.

If you are a senior Business Analyst with experience in enterprise workforce transformation and complex HR processes, we would welcome a conversation.