The Opportunity
Our client is seeking an experienced Lead / Senior Business Analyst to play a key role in a major energy reform initiative. This position is central to improving business analysis maturity and supporting the organisation’s transition to a more standardised and compliant way of working across market and regulatory change programs.
This is a high-visibility role for a BA who combines hands-on delivery experience with leadership capability, particularly within AEMO, NEM Reform, or other regulatory transformation projects.
Melbourne CBD (Hybrid – 2 days WFH)
Initial 12-month contract
The Role
As a Lead / Senior Business Analyst, you’ll be responsible for establishing, uplifting, and embedding consistent business analysis practices within the program — creating frameworks and artefacts that can be reused across future reform initiatives.
You will:
- Set up new BA ways of working aligned to regulatory and industry best practices within the FTA program.
- Improve the quality, consistency, and governance of BA artefacts and documentation to better support delivery outcomes.
- Provide hands-on support in developing customer journeys, business processes, and regulatory workflows that underpin the FTA’s architecture-led delivery model.
- Guide and mentor the existing team of Business Analysts through the next phase of the project, building capability and driving alignment across workstreams.
- Partner with architects, project managers, and regulatory stakeholders to ensure BA outputs support compliance with AEMO and NER rule changes.
- Maintain visibility of requirements traceability, review cycles, and stakeholder approvals to ensure end-to-end delivery quality.
About You
Applications will only be considered from candidates with demonstrable experience in the energy sector and AEMO or NEM Reform programs.
You will bring:
- Extensive experience as a Senior or Lead Business Analyst, ideally within electricity, gas, or broader energy markets.
- Proven experience working on AEMO, NEM Reform, or regulatory change initiatives (e.g. Power of Choice, 5-Minute Settlement, or similar).
- Demonstrated ability to establish BA frameworks, artefact standards, and governance models in complex delivery environments.
- Strong capability in process mapping (BPMN), customer journey development, and requirements definition.
- Experience mentoring and guiding BA teams, uplifting quality and consistency of outputs.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior business and regulatory stakeholders.
- Experience with Agile tools (JIRA, Confluence) and exposure to SAP or SAP IS-U environments (advantageous).
Benefits
- Join a major energy reform initiative with national market impact.
- Play a leading role in establishing BA practices that will shape future transformation programs.
- Flexible hybrid working model – Melbourne CBD with 2 days WFH.
- Competitive rate and supportive, collaborative program team.
Important: Due to high application volumes, only candidates with direct energy sector and AEMO/NEM Reform experience will be shortlisted. Please ensure your resume clearly highlights relevant program and regulatory experience.
Please note: We are receiving an extremely high volume of applications, please apply directly to the job advert and be patient while waiting for an update. Whilst we endeavour to respond to all enquiries, with current volumes it can be challenging - we're only human!
If you wish to apply via email please make sure you also apply directly - a lot of applications get phished, or sent to spam.
Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). helena.patterson@davidsonwp.com
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