A rare and exciting chance to Join AFCA's technology team as the Business Analyst and be pivotal in setting out the requirements for the Scams Prevention Framework. The Business Analyst will drive the end-to-end requirements gathering, documentation and other related project activities to support both the CRM solution and broader IT initiatives.

This role will act as a conduit between business and technology stakeholders across project streams, ensuring that requirements are captured, developed and validated through to acceptance and implementation. Partner with key project stakeholders including AFCA IT and external vendors to identify and implement solutions required to enable AFCA to operate efficiently, effectively, and economically.

Please note, the scope of this position is initially for 12 months.

Typically, in this role you will:

• Elicit and critically evaluate requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use case scenarios, task and workflow analysis.
• Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements specifications.
• Create and maintain thorough documentation and artefacts as required (business requirements, use cases, GUI, screen and interface designs), requirements trackability.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs, and manage stakeholder expectations and conflicts accordingly.
• Act as liaison between the business units, technology teams and project teams.
• Participate in Agile project ceremonies including daily stand-ups, story time, showcases and retrospectives.
• Support the development of test plans/scenarios to ensure successful delivery of a project.
• Create system documentation, business processes, rules and logic.

• 12 month Fixed Term Contract
• Proven transformation experience in the Super Insurance Claims space essential
• Hybrid working as standard
• Work with purpose

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member 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, they’re 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.

Rest’s 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.

The Senior Business Analyst’s 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 fit-for-purpose solution
• Risk and issue management: Identify risks and issues and develop effective mitigation/management strategies according to Rest’s risk framework, and communicate risk assessments and plans to the necessary stakeholders.
• Business domain knowledge in superannuation or financial services
• Proven transformation experience in the Super Insurance Claims space essential
• Ability to understand business functionality, business complexity and interdependencies
• Proven experience in establishing requirements and specifications for system integration (incl. via API) and single sign-on
• Proven experience in performing data analysis
• 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.

A bit about the role:

The role is based in our Sydney office, but you will also work closely with the Regional APAC and Global Wise Platform teams based in our offices around the world. You will work closely with other functions, including product management, compliance & legal, implementation and engineering. As the Senior Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for independently sourcing and winning high impact deals with a focus on large banks and enterprises.

Your mission: 

• Work with the Wise Platform team to build, close and grow a strong pipeline of financial institutions and enterprises across our target verticals in ANZ, driving revenue and volume growth for Wise.

• Be the business counterpart for product teams to unlock new verticals and flows in ANZ through understanding painpoints, sizing opportunity and understanding regulatory / compliance nuances.  

• Work on projects and initiatives to improve our sales processes and approaches both within the APAC region and globally, such as helping iterate our pitches and messaging, our pricing strategies, go to market efforts - or anything else that helps drive growth.