Business Analyst (contract)

Position Summary

Contract and Schedule

• The contract is for 12 months with possible extension.
• The role is scheduled for 40 hours per week.
• The stated start date is ASAP.

Location and Travel

• The role is remote, with monthly travel to Sunbury and potential occasional overseas travel.

IT Systems Discovery and Documentation

• Conduct discovery workshops and interviews with business, manufacturing, laboratory, and IT stakeholders.
• Document systems, applications, infrastructure services, interfaces, data flows, ownership, criticality, hosting, and vendor dependencies.
• Create process maps, application landscape diagrams, and dependency models.
• Validate findings with business and technical stakeholders.

Due Diligence and Dependency Analysis

• Prepare technology information and supporting documentation for buyer due diligence and data-room activities.
• Respond to requests from M&A, PMO, and Infrastructure workstreams.
• Analyse application, infrastructure, manufacturing, laboratory, integration, data exchange, and shared-service dependencies.
• Identify systems requiring migration, replication, replacement, or ongoing support after transaction close.

Cutover and Transition Support

• Support planning and readiness activities for plant, laboratory, and business site transitions.
• Track site readiness milestones, operational impacts, and key dependencies.
• Reflect migration activities in site transition plans.
• Document business impacts, risks, assumptions, and operational constraints.
• Support testing, deployment planning, cutover preparation, and hypercare activities.

Stakeholder Engagement and Deliverables

• Build relationships with site leadership, operational teams, subject matter experts, and technology teams.
• Facilitate workshops across multiple regions and time zones.
• Capture and communicate actions, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies.
• Maintain application inventories, dependency maps, ownership matrices, readiness assessments, cutover logs, and separation documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Hold a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Have at least 5 years of business analysis experience in IT, infrastructure, or business transformation programmes.
• Have experience gathering and documenting business and technical requirements.
• Have experience with enterprise applications and infrastructure environments.
• Know business process analysis, stakeholder interviewing, workshop facilitation, process mapping, systems modelling, requirements traceability, and dependency management.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently in a global, matrixed environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with large-scale transformation, migration, or separation projects is desirable.
• Experience in manufacturing, chemicals, industrial products, lubricants, or process industries is preferred.
• Experience with M&A, divestitures, carve-outs, SAP, LIMS, operational technology, quality systems, supply chain, warehouse management, or service management is preferred.

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