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Role highlights

- Help CSIRO turn data into meaningful insights and better business decisions.
- Explore business challenges and shape innovative analytics solutions.
- Work with emerging technologies, AI-assisted analysis and contemporary data practices.

About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

Visit CSIRO.au for more information.

The opportunity

As an Analytics Business Analyst at CSIRO, you'll help turn business challenges into meaningful insights and effective data and analytics solutions. Working with business stakeholders, data professionals and technical teams, you'll look beyond initial requests to understand the underlying questions, explore opportunities and help shape solutions that support better decisions and business outcomes.

You’ll contribute to requirements analysis, data storytelling, dashboard and visualisation design, testing and solution validation. You’ll also have opportunities to explore contemporary approaches, including AI-assisted analysis and rapid prototyping,



to help stakeholders discover what's possible and improve how we deliver solutions.

Joining our Enterprise Data, Analytics & Integration team, you'll work alongside experienced specialists and develop your capabilities as we evolve our enterprise data and analytics services.

High-level duties include:

- Business discovery and requirements: Engage with stakeholders to understand business challenges, question assumptions and translate needs into clear requirements and potential solutions.
- Analytics and data storytelling: Explore analytical questions and contribute to dashboards, visualisations, rapid prototypes and other information solutions that support better decisions.
- Data validation and testing: Investigate data, document business rules and undertake testing and reconciliation to ensure accurate, fit-for-purpose solutions.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Build relationships, facilitate discussions and communicate insights and recommendations across business and technical teams.
- Continuous improvement: Contribute to evolving BA practices through AI-assisted analysis, automation, reusable approaches and effective documentation.

Role particulars

Location and office arrangements: Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane,



Adelaide, Sydney, Hobart

Salary: AU$100K – AU$113K per annum, plus 15.4% superannuation

Tenure & work schedule: Specified Term of 3 years, Full Time

Reference: 104300

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential Criteria

- Demonstrated experience in business analysis, requirements gathering, business process analysis or a related discipline, preferably supporting reporting, analytics, data or technology initiatives.
- Ability to investigate stakeholder needs, question assumptions and communicate business requirements through appropriate artefacts such as user stories, process maps, functional specifications or acceptance criteria.
- Demonstrated analytical thinking, curiosity and problem-solving skills, including the ability to investigate data and business problems, evaluate information and identify practical solutions.
- Experience undertaking testing, data validation or quality assurance activities to support the delivery of accurate, reliable and fit-for-purpose solutions.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to facilitate discussions, explain information clearly and work effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate within multidisciplinary teams, adapt to changing requirements and develop new skills or approaches to achieve business outcomes.
- This role has child safety obligations. Accordingly, the successful candidate will be requi

📌 Analytics Business Analyst (Adelaide)
🏢 CSIRO
📍 Adelaide