Senior Business Analyst

At AustralianSuper, we truly care about our colleagues. We know work and life are intertwined. That's why we support the diverse needs of everyone and have policies that enable us all to thrive and be truly flexible. We ensure diversity is celebrated for the opportunity it provides us all to learn and grow, and deliver better outcomes for members. We are dedicated to building a high-performance environment underpinned by a strong risk culture, ensuring we deliver the best outcomes for our members.

Your New Role

We have a 12-month max-term contract opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst to join the Enterprise Group Delivery and support the delivery of a strategic project, specific to creating and sustaining a culture that effectively manages risk at the Fund.

Reporting to the Business Analysis Team Lead, the Senior Business Analyst is responsible for solving business problems for business stakeholders, identifying opportunities for improvements, providing recommendations, gathering and qualifying business requirements and the development of various artifacts to ensure the successful implementation of new software, digital products and/or business process changes.

The successful applicant will contribute through both independent and collaborative thinking to the design, development and delivery of innovative business solutions and improvement initiatives for AustralianSuper and its members.

Key accountabilities will include;

• Support the successful delivery of defined project objectives
• Understand and can document the current and future states of the relevant business processes
• Document, manage, prioritise, and validate functional and non-functional requirements
• Ensuring activities are appropriately tracked with clear traceability and are completed within the agreed timeframe
• Understand the value proposition of initiatives and prioritise well to help achieve business outcomes
• Supports the process of developing, obtaining approval for and release for any required RFPs
• Actively seek to identify, understand, and manage project dependencies, risks, and issues
• Support change management & business integration activities
• Independently builds rapport with stakeholders and understands stakeholder challenges and pain points.

What You'll Need

• Deep business analyst experience within financial services, a minimum of 6 years
• Solid ability to consistently write requirements and/or user stories of high quality and with great attention to detail
• Demonstrated experience within superannuation industry
• Experience within projects that focused on risk management practices, including elevating risk culture and uplifting risk capabilities
• An engaging workshop style and strong grasp of facilitation techniques
• Highly developed stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
• Exposure to working in various project environments and methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, and hybrids of both
• Ability to independently work through problems and present recommendations to stakeholders.

Life at AustralianSuper

AustralianSuper is committed to colleague development, and we support our people with ongoing learning, coaching and training, as well as career opportunities across our expanding global organisation. We offer generous leave entitlements and promote a blended working environment in which all roles can flex, and we're happy to discuss what this looks like for you.

We cultivate a workplace that champions safety, respect, inclusiveness and diversity. We are committed to supporting our diverse workforce in a way that is inclusive and embraces diversity in all its forms. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let our recruitment team know.

What's Next
Apply now, if you share our values of Energy, Integrity, Generosity of Spirit and Excellent Outcomes and would like the opportunity to work in a challenging, growing and rapidly evolving team to deliver outstanding results.

Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency status is required
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Agencies please note: this vacancy is being managed directly by AustralianSuper's Talent Acquisition team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional support. Thank you.