Technology Business Analyst (Perth)

About Us 

At Covalent Lithium, we are genuinely passionate about creating a clean energy future and supporting our teams who enable this vision. 

Following the commissioning of our mine and concentrator at Mt Holland in 2024, we recently celebrated our first production of battery -grade lithium hydroxide at our Kwinana Refinery. We are now a fully integrated mine-to-refinery operation, supplying high quality lithium hydroxide to global markets and enabling approximately 1 million electric vehicles to go on the road, every year for the next 50 years.

We are proud to foster a culture where people with different skills, experiences and backgrounds are welcomed and set-up for success.

Employee Benefits 

We support, empower and reward our people with a range of benefits:
•    Competitive remuneration, and annual incentives for eligible employees
•    Access to discounts, recognition and rewards
•    Access to flexible work arrangements
•    Dedicated wellbeing program support and discounted health insurance
•    Equal access to paid parental leave, financial support, return to work and parenting room
•    Salary sacrifice options for superannuation and novated leasing

The Role

The Business Analyst is responsible for gathering, analysing, and documenting information from stakeholders in support of project delivery. This role requires hands on engagement with stakeholders from across the business, working on multiple projects simultaneously.

The position is an integral part of the Technology Projects team, ensuring the Technology Program delivers sustainable and fit for purpose solutions.

This is a permanent full-time position based at our Perth Office with one day a week required at our Kwinana Office. Ad hoc travel required to our Mt Holland Mine site.

Key Responsibilities 

•    Comply with all health and safety, environmental and regulatory policies relating to the project and ensure a safe working environment.
•    Ensure all health, safety and environmental incidents are reported.
•    Assist in the transition of operational and project solutions to Technology and business support personnel.
•    Undertake analysis of business requirements, ensuring that technology solutions are developed to meet these requirements and ensure that the solutions deliver value to the key stakeholders and Covalent.
•    Coordinate and facilitate business and functional requirements captured by employing recognised techniques including workshops, one-on-one interviews, and data and systems analysis.
•    Assess the business process impact associated with implementation of technology solutions.
•    Understand and define business and customer scenarios, and design detailed processes through user journey mapping across different channels and touchpoints.
•    Ability to drive project outcomes and collaboration between team members in a fast-moving project.
•    Proactively engage key decision makers, systems owners and end users to define business, financial and operations requirements and systems goals.
•    Work collaboratively with vendor consultants to design, build, test, deploy and support technology solutions.
•    Attend regular meetings with the relevant Technology stakeholders to discuss progress and requirements of the team’s on-going deliverables.

Role Requirements

•    Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Information Technology or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
•    Certified Business Analysis training  course - based around the BABOK (Analyst Body of Knowledge)(Desirable)
•    Minimum 5 years experience delivering and supporting digital technology solutions. Experience as part of projects to other mining and processing organisations in the resources sector is desirable.
•    Extensive experience in gathering functional, non-functional and technical requirements for business needs.
•    Extensive experience ensuring that quality information is being delivered to Stakeholders.
•    Experience with preparation of functional and technical specifications and other key documentation.
•    Experience working with change management.
•    Experience in the creation and execution of test scripts including unit, system, integration and user acceptance test scripts.
•    Experience in the full application lifecycle.

A competitive remuneration package commensurate with the role, candidate experience, skills and qualifications will be offered.  

Our team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Candidates from all backgrounds and ages are encouraged to apply, including First Nations People, those who identify as LGBTIQ+, people with disabilities and those with neurodiverse, intersectional, or multiple diverse characteristics.

Covalent Lithium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, with a focus on our employees. We recognise skills, expertise, commitment and living our values of Purpose, Care, Accountability and Collaboration. Our goal is to attract, develop, motivate, reward, and retain the best people in the industry. 

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