Senior Business Analyst

Our client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with a focus on Finance to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between business needs and technology, optimising financial processes, and ensuring system configurations align with business requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a large-scale digital transformation within one of Australia's largest educational organisations. This role is based in the Melbourne CBD

What you'll do:

As a Senior Business Analyst for finance, you will be instrumental in supporting the finance program. Your role involves analysing business requirements, optimising financial processes, and ensuring system configurations align with business needs. You will work closely with stakeholders to drive system (and process) enhancements and ensure compliance with financial regulations. Your ability to facilitate workshops, conduct interviews, process mapping and utilise other methods including developing User Stories will be crucial in this role.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and turn these into functional & technical specifications.
• Support the implementation partner through the configuration of the Finance ERP modules according to business requirements.
• Perform solution testing to validate that the solution is built as per requirements and agreed design.
• Support training team delivery to end-users and provide ongoing support to resolve issues.
• Contribute to the data migration strategy from legacy systems to the new ERP.
• Facilitate workshops, conduct one on one interviews, process mapping and utilising other methods including developing User Stories, and likely working to Agile sprint cycles.

What you bring:

The ideal candidate for this Senior Business Analyst - Finance role brings proven experience as a Business Analyst with end-to-end SDLC implementation of a finance ERP such as Oracle or SAP or other similar/equivalent product suite. You possess in-depth domain knowledge of the finance functions in the education sector. Your strong skills in data analysis and reporting tools coupled with your experience with cloud-based ERP products make you an asset to our team. Your understanding of agile methodologies, user stories, backlog management, and sprint planning will be key to your success in this role.

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst with end-to-end SDLC implementation of a finance ERP such as Oracle or SAP or other similar/equivalent product suite.
• In-depth domain knowledge of the finance functions in the education sector.
• Knowledge of various ERP modules such as Financial, Procurement, Invoicing and Billing.
• Strong skills in data analysis and reporting tools.
• Experience with cloud-based ERP products and ways of working.
• Strong knowledge of agile methodologies, user stories, backlog management, and sprint planning

• 5+ years experience

NOTE: due to increased volume of calls, please direct questions to EMAIL: ellie.mujushi@robertwalters.com.au

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are encouraged to apply.
To apply please click apply or call Ellie Mujushi on 03 8628 2269 for a confidential discussion.