4 Senior Business Analysts

Business Analysts seek to understanding business processes and determining business requirements for systems.

Key duties and responsibilities

The Services, delivered in collaboration with and under supervision by nominated AFP personnel, include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Accountable for providing leadership and direction to ensure a high-level of integration and consistency across the business analysis function. 

• Accountable for managing allocated resources, setting work area priorities, workflows, developing strategies and evaluating business outcomes. 

• Manage the design and execution of business process tests, usability evaluations, networks and business trials, confidence tests. 

• Responsible for business analysis within a significant segment of an organisation where the advice given, and decisions made will have a measurable impact on the profitability or effectiveness of the organisation. 

• Advise stakeholders and colleagues on the choice of techniques, tools and processes required for modelling and analysis activities and tasks. 

• Draw upon knowledge of business analysis methods and techniques, modelling and quality assurance techniques to understand and articulate business processes and contribute to business outcomes. 

• Engage and influence AFP senior leadership and provide the key link between senior executives and AFP employees. 

• Work collaboratively with stakeholders to identify their needs, reach agreement on the business objectives and gain commitment to achieving results. 

• Analyse very complex ICT business issues, applying expertise to identify and recommend courses of action. 

• Assess and evaluate ICT business improvement processes, strategy, initiatives, projects, policies and procedures. 

• Accountable for investigating business needs, problems and opportunities and recommend effective business processes. 

• Deliver business cases which define potential benefits and options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes. 

• Work effectively in a small team environment;

• Provide knowledge/skills transfer to other teams

As part of the services, the seller must ensure the specified personnel:

• Maintains currency in information technology processes and technical knowledge through ongoing professional development.

• Establishes and maintains effective business relationships and professional networks.

• Contributes to and implements improved ICT practices and procedures.

• Provides mentoring, coaching and training.

• Works effectively in a small team environment, and wider Command environment.

• Remains accountable for accurate completion of work within timeframes and quality requirements, shares own expertise with others and guides and mentors less experienced buyer employees; and

• Records and maintains files/information in accordance with buyer requirements.

AFP Work Level Standards 

AFP Band 7 Work Level Standards to apply.

The AFP reserves the right to engage further suppliers for the same services if required utilising this RFQ. Any offer of engagement will be made within 6-months of the RFQ release date.

Technical skills

Technical skills candidates would need to have (including but not limited to) are listed below:

• Requirements elicitation and management
  Business process analysis and design
  ICT Infrastructure and Network knowledge
  Traceability and assurance documentation
  Stakeholder engagement and facilitation