Senior Business Analyst

• Be part of a high performing team
• Location: Melbourne
• Initial 6 months contract 
• Hybrid

The opportunity

 As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for the quality, planning and estimating of your individual workstream and deliverables. In addition to good technical BA capabilities, your role will require a comprehensive understanding of project delivery methodologies. You should have a good working knowledge of project management techniques, as well as an understanding of organisational change management, development and testing.

Description of division and business unit

The North Platforms Technology team sits within the Technology division within AMP. 

The North Platforms Technology team provides full lifecycle management of the North platform which is one of the leading Wrap platforms in the Wealth market. The capability within the team is very diverse with specialised skillset and deep knowledge within the Wealth Industry. Roles within the team cover Strategic Planning, Business and Systems Analysis, Development, Architecture, Testing, and Production Support. 

We work very closely with our business partners across the Client Services, Digital and Adviser Experience, Product, Distribution, Marketing, and other finance areas and have deep appreciation of how Technology plays a pivotal role in helping these partners achieve successful outcomes. 

About the role:

• Lead discussion between Business and Technology teams to understand business objectives and translate into solutions.
• Work with the business leaders and across transformation and technology teams to plan and deliver change.
• Working and delivering within Agile delivery frameworks, as well as mentoring and adapting to best practices.
• Produce business and functional requirements for business and technology stakeholders and facilitate necessary reviews/approvals.
• Work through the entire software development lifecycle, responsible for supporting both Business and Technology activities.
• Lead and/or support the scoping and estimating of initiatives, including support for development of business cases.
• Conduct impact assessments across the North Platform and with internal and external upstream/downstream systems.
• Work with business and Tech Leads to ensure sequencing of delivery is efficient and supports required outcomes of both groups.
• Support the transition of software changes to BAU, working with Change, Training Teams and Production Support.
• Build and foster effective relationships with Business and IT teams internally and externally

About you:

• 5+ years of experience of performing business analysis on large projects delivering business and technology change within the financial services industry.
• Strong business analysis experience in wealth management, investment wraps or superannuation delivering complex projects.
• Wrap platform experience or North experience highly valuable
• Experience working across the end-to-end software development life cycle (SDLC) within both Agile and Waterfall delivery environments.
• Strong experience in applying business analysis to drive strategic development and process improvement.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience leading analysis that creates new business capability.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, and SQL.
• Appropriate tertiary qualifications and relevant industry experience 

Job Specific capabilities required:

• Elicitation and documentation of business requirements, functional specifications and handovers. Facilitation of workshops, including capturing, summarising and organising inputs and outputs. Process analysis and mapping (As-Is, To-Be).
• Scoping, estimating and planning streams of work.
• Support the development of business cases.
• Ability to engage with both business and technical resources and act as the conduit to deliver outcomes, doing so within hybrid Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of cross functional teams.
• Commitment to delivering high quality and cost-effective solutions to business stakeholders.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles for building scalable applications.
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Strong creative thinking, problem solving, planning, and organisational skills.
• Develop and instil a continuous improvement culture via a focus on innovation and process.

Working at AMP

We are transforming our business. We are looking for people with courage, accountability and integrity who inspire the same in others. If you are comfortable challenging the status-quo and perform at your best in an evolving and complex environment - we need you.

Wellbeing & Benefits

We invest in the health, wellbeing, and development of all our people including our contingent professionals, by offering a range of great benefits to support you be your best, professionally, and personally:

• Finance & investment assistance and opportunities.
• Salary packaging and novated vehicle leases
• Employee Assistance Program – Benestar.
• Access to discounted health and wellbeing initiatives through Medibank.
• Access to a range of discounted offerings via an extra’s benefits program.
• Networking / professional development opportunities and events

We review applications as soon as we receive them and if we find our ideal person, we may close the role earlier than the advertised close date. If you are serious about expanding your skills with AMP as a contingent professional, then please click on the apply link.

Agencies should note that unsolicited resumes will not be accepted for this position and AMP will not pay any fees related to resumes that are submitted directly to hiring managers and not through our approved process. Where appropriate, the AMP Team will work with our preferred panel of agencies to source candidates for roles.