Senior Business Analyst: Strategy, Stakeholders & Delivery

Xpt Software Australia Pty; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Xpt Software Australia Pty is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to join our delivery team in Australia. The role focuses on translating business needs into clear requirements, facilitating workshops, and guiding project artefacts from concept to deployment with strong stakeholder collaboration.

The successful candidate will work across Agile and Waterfall projects, create comprehensive documentation, and drive continuous improvements through data-driven insights and effective communication.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Business Analysis (over 5 years of experience).
• Knowledge of Project Management methodologies.
• Experience using MS Office, SharePoint, Visio, Jira and Confluence.
• Experience/knowledge on managing Agile/Waterfall projects - release planning, budgets, forecasting and status reporting.

Responsibilities

• Assists with internal and external communication by transparently radiating information.
• Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.
• Workshops facilitation and requirements elicitation.
• Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
• Improve systems by studying current practices; designing modifications.
• Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases and elements.
• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Assist with the development of detailed and comprehensive project plans
• Report and escalate as needed
• Manage the relationship with all stakeholders and their expectations accordingly
• Risk & Issue Management
• Conflict management - Identify differences in understanding and issues as they arise and elevate them to the team for resolution, or to management if needed
• Create and maintain documentation as required
• Timely and accurate communication and distribution of information
• Assist with managing Agile/Waterfall projects - release planning, budgets, forecasting and status reporting
• Work with Product Owners to ensure that testing and feedback is completed in a timely manner and meeting the Sprint timelines
• Accountability - take ownership of assigned tasks and pro-actively managing priorities
• Growth mindset - improve based on lessons learned / feedback

Skills

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Distributed teams

Resilience

Accountability

Growth mindset

Agile mindset

Organizational skills

Written and verbal communication

Tools

MS Office

SharePoint

Visio

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Xpt Software Australia Pty is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to join our delivery team in Australia. The role focuses on translating business needs into clear requirements, facilitating workshops, and guiding project artefacts from concept to deployment with strong stakeholder collaboration.

The successful candidate will work across Agile and Waterfall projects, create comprehensive documentation, and drive continuous improvements through data-driven insights and effective communication.