Senior Business Analyst

• Great opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Work in a fast-paced environment with lots of opportunity for exposure to both highly visible projects and cutting-edge technology
• Permanent position based in Brisbane

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst who will define and lead Business Analysis activities across a large portfolio. This includes mentoring, guiding and growing team capabilities, implementing methods, processes and frameworks for a quality management and experience with Waterfall, Agile and DevOps. You will play a hands-on role in delivering technical and functional requirements, whilst liaising with key stakeholders to develop a solid understanding of how the business is currently operating and its future goals.

Reporting to the Capability Lead (Business Analysis) you will be working in a collaborative and exciting environment within our Information Technology PMO teams.

As the Senior Business Analyst you will:

• Play a senior role in the Business Analysis team, leading and expanding the capabilities of team members responsible for the evaluation, definition and documentation of project requirements, ensuring objectives and deliverables are clearly articulated.
• Ensure compliance with standards and guidelines relating to the documentation/ development of project artefacts and procurement.
• Work with various portfolio teams and lead stakeholder engagement activities to define project objectives.
• Understand the outcomes required by the business, facilitate workshops and document business and technical requirements.
• Actively take part in improving and building out the business analysis capability of the PMO team

What you'll bring:

• A number of years in a similar Senior Business Analyst role, working in cross-functional (and virtual) teams with the ability to nurture and contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, change management, negotiation and communication skills including the ability to influence stakeholders of all levels and manage 3rd party vendors.
• Demonstrated experience successfully delivering technical and functional documentation, leading stakeholder workshops in Waterfall, Agile and DevOps environments.
• Appropriate industry qualifications with experience across Business Analysis and Change Management frameworks.
• Experience in requirements workshop facilitation using different methods including user centric design tools and approaches.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and hard work, and go home knowing you've 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 subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Brand new modern office building that is set up for you to do your best work and have a great time doing so, with breakout areas, little nooks, and quiet places to retreat (and we have a BBQ at level 20!)
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers - generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium - the world's first to be certified 'responsible' - helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will 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

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.