Principal Business Analyst - Workforce planning

Pinpoint Talent is seeking a highly capable Principal Business Analyst to join a significant Queensland Government workforce transformation project.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a large-scale Workforce Mobility Project focused on streamlining HR processes, improving workforce mobility and enhancing the employee experience across a complex, statewide organisation.

With a contract through to June 2027 and potential extensions, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to a major transformation initiative.

The opportunity Reporting to the Program Director, you will lead business analysis activities across the Workforce Mobility Project, working with stakeholders across the state to identify business needs, analyse existing processes and define future-state requirements.

You will play a key role in ensuring business, user, data and operational requirements are clearly understood, documented and translated into practical solutions that improve workforce processes and system efficiencies.

Key responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder engagement and consultation to capture, analyse and document business requirements.
• Analyse current-state and future-state business processes, identifying opportunities for improvement and process re engineering.
• Gather and document business, user, data and operational requirements to inform solution design and functionality.
• Develop high-quality business analysis documentation for diverse stakeholder groups.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technical teams to improve process efficiency, solution effectiveness and user experience.
• Provide specialist advice on business processes and enterprise solutions to support informed decision making.
• Identify process variations, risks and opportunities to improve operational effectiveness.
• Support knowledge transfer and handover activities to build internal capability.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders across a complex, statewide environment to support successful project delivery.

About you

You are an experienced Business Analyst who thrives in complex transformation environments, brings stakeholders together and translates business needs into clear, actionable requirements.

To be successful, you will bring:

• Proven experience working on large-scale Human Capital Management (HCM) programs or projects.
• Strong business analysis skills, including requirements elicitation, process mapping, gap analysis and business process re engineering.
• Experience analysing complex business processes and developing current-state and future-state models.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills across business and technical teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on practical, fit for purpose solutions.
• The ability to manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguity and deliver quality outcomes within agreed timeframes.
• Experience producing comprehensive documentation and supporting knowledge transfer.

Desirable

Experience with SAP HCM or enterprise HR and workforce management solutions.

• Role: Principal Business Analyst
• Project: Workforce Mobility
• Location: Brisbane CBD
• Contract term: Until June 2027, with potential extensions
• Daily rate: $977.69 + superannuation
• Working arrangements: Flexible working arrangements, including remote work, may be considered subject to operational requirements and approval.

Why apply?

This is an opportunity to apply your business analysis expertise to a significant Queensland Government transformation program, work with diverse stakeholders and help shape improved workforce processes across a large organisation.

If you have a strong background in HCM transformation and enjoy solving complex business challenges, we would love to hear from you.