Senior Business Analyst - Data Insights

• Experienced BA with strong Data knowledge
• 12 Month Fixed Term Contract 
• Hybrid work environment

Established in 1988 Rest is one of Australias largest profittomember superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super theyre more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours we want to Be Daring Keep it Simple Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

Rests Data Technology and Delivery (DTD) business unit is accountable for planning and preparing the organisation for the future through strategic technology innovation as well as charting our business strategy and executing for today and tomorrow.

Situated in the Business Analysis Practice the Senior Business Analyst has two main priorities:

1. Supporting the Product Owner/Business Owner/Sponsors to ensure that business needs and solutions options are understood
2. Ensuring the product/platform/project team have a shared understanding of the requirements through written and verbal communication.

The Senior Business Analysts general responsibilities include:

• Gathering and documenting requirements: Gather review analyse validate evaluate and map business systems processes and user needs and translate them into requirements/user stories with acceptance criteria
• Managing stakeholders: Engage inform and negotiate with stakeholders to elicit and validate requirements and prioritise them
• Analysing and modelling: Analyse documents programs logic process flows and specifications.  Model the requirements using a range of techniques such as process mapping story mapping user stories and acceptance criteria business rules
• Managing the requirements lifecycle: Ensure that requirements/user stories are prioritised based on their value complexity and feasibility ensuring that the most critical items are delivered first
• Team communication and collaboration: Work closely with Engineers Testers Change Managers Third Party members within the product/platform/project team to ensure everyone understands business requirements to be able to develop a fitforpurpose solution
• Risk and issue management: Identify risks and issues and develop effective mitigation/management strategies according to Rests risk framework and communicate risk assessments and plans to the necessary stakeholders.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• IIBA or similar industry standard certification preferred.

Domain Specific Experience:

• Strong data analysis expertise including data flows data mining and data governance
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to elicit and manage the requirements lifecycle for service and product insights and/or reporting
• Experience in data warehouse migration to Snowflake
• Customer data insights experience advantageous

Required experience understanding or credentials including:

• Business domain knowledge in superannuation or financial services desirable
• Ability to understand business functionality business complexity and interdependencies
• Ability to develop compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimations
• Highly developed strategic analytical problem solving issues management and evaluation skills to deliver innovative solutions
• Understanding of modelling techniques such as business process models and notation (BPMN) data flow diagrams and unified modelling language (UML) SIPOC and value stream analysis etc Demonstrated experience in writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Excellent communication facilitation consultation negotiation and reporting/presentation skills including the ability to influence people at all levels and foster and maintain collaborative working relationships both within and outside the organisation
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot problems that may arise in work products
• Proven ability to work under pressure meet deadlines and prioritise workloads.

Additional Information :

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Hybrid working 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Linkedin Learning 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rests values and behaviours) 
• Rest Stops meeting free breaks 

If you share our values believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity equity and inclusion where people feel welcome safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages cultural backgrounds faiths gender identities sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability neurodiverse individuals Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime