Business Analyst

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join a newly established domain delivery squad, playing a key role in delivering business and technology initiatives that support strategic objectives across the organisation. Working within a collaborative Agile environment, you will partner with business and technology stakeholders to analyse problems, define requirements, improve processes and help deliver solutions that create measurable business value.

About the role

• Elicit, analyse and document business requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate workshops and engage stakeholders to understand business needs and define target state outcomes.
• Conduct current and future state process mapping, gap analysis and problem-solving activities.
• Develop high-quality business analysis artefacts including business requirements documentation, process flows and traceability documentation.
• Support Agile delivery practices including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews and prioritisation activities.
• Perform data analysis, identify insights and support data migration, mapping and validation activities where required.
• Work closely with architects, developers, testers, delivery leads and vendors to ensure requirements are understood and successfully delivered.
• Support testing activities across the delivery lifecycle, including functional testing and UAT.
• Contribute to risk management, change management and benefits realisation activities to support successful project outcomes.

What we are looking for

• Extensive experience working as a Business Analyst delivering business and technology change initiatives.
• Strong Agile delivery experience working within cross-functional squads, with expertise in backlog refinement, story decomposition and iterative delivery approaches.
• Proven capability in requirements elicitation, business process analysis, gap analysis and problem definition.
• Experience producing high-quality business analysis artefacts, including business requirements documents, user stories, acceptance criteria and process maps.
• Demonstrated experience supporting end-to-end solution delivery across the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess options, identify risks and make practical recommendations.
• Experience performing structured data analysis and translating findings into business insights.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build consensus across business stakeholders, technology teams and external vendors.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements for technical audiences and explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Highly organised, adaptable and self-sufficient, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Experience within financial services, ideally superannuation, and an understanding of regulated environments will be highly regarded.
• Experience working with third-party vendors, implementation partners and external service providers is desirable.

Highly regarded:

• Familiarity with the finance sector, ideally in the superannuation industry with an understanding of the regulatory environment and operational needs
• Strong experience working in Agile delivery environments and cross-functional squads
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