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Business Analyst resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what business analysts actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most business analysts should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Business analyst who bridges the gap between business problems and the systems that solve them, with a background in eliciting requirements, mapping processes and testing that delivered solutions actually meet business need. Comfortable working across finance, operations and IT delivery teams, translating technical constraints into plain language stakeholders can act on.
Key skills
- Business requirements analysis
- Process mapping and improvement
- Data analysis and reporting
- Stakeholder management
- SQL
- Jira
- Confluence
- Visio
- Excel
- Written communication
Experience: example bullet points
- Elicited and documented business requirements from finance, operations and IT stakeholders, producing requirements documents that delivery teams used to scope and estimate work
- Mapped current and future state processes in Visio, identifying manual steps that were removed from the workflow
- Ran user acceptance testing against documented requirements, logging defects in Jira and tracking resolution before sign-off
- Acted as the day-to-day link between business stakeholders and the delivery team, translating technical constraints into plain-language updates
- Supported change management activities including training sessions and process documentation to help staff adopt new systems
Education
Bachelor degree in business, commerce, IT or a related field is the typical entry point, often followed by an IIBA certification (such as ECBA or CCBA) or a postgraduate qualification; many business analysts move in from finance, accounting or operations roles with strong process and reporting experience.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Business requirements document (BRD)
- Process mapping
- Stakeholder management
- IIBA
- BABOK
- Agile
- Scrum
- User acceptance testing (UAT)
- SQL
- Jira
- Confluence
- Visio
- Change management
- Gap analysis
- Functional requirements
- Data analysis
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.