• 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.

As a Business Analyst at Bilue, you’ll bridge the gap between stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring business needs are clearly understood and translated into actionable solutions. You’ll play a key role in gathering and documenting requirements, liaising with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and with third parties to gather and document information about integrations, ensuring all dependencies are identified and met. This role offers the opportunity to grow your skills while working on diverse projects in a collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements, identify gaps, and develop solutions aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project scope and objectives.
• Develop and maintain clear and detailed documentation, including user stories, process flows, and functional specifications.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and recommend solutions.
• Support the development team during implementation by clarifying requirements and addressing questions.
• Assist in user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Facilitate workshops, meetings, and presentations with stakeholders to gather input and provide updates.

Position: Senior Product Manager (Technology Consulting, Business Analysis)
Location: Sydney, Australia
WorkStyle: Sydney Hybrid based
Simple Machines. Data Engineered to Life™

Simple Machines is a leading independent boutique technology firm with a global presence, including teams in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and New Zealand. We specialise in creating technology solutions at the intersection of data, AI, machine learning, data engineering, and software engineering. Our mission is to help enterprises, technology companies, and governments better connect with and understand their organisations, their people, their customers, and citizens. We are a team of creative engineers and technologists dedicated to unleashing the potential of data in new and impactful ways. We design and build bespoke data platforms and unique software products, create and deploy intelligent systems, and bring engineering expertise to life by transforming data into actionable insights and tangible outcomes.

About You

We are looking for a consultant-minded individual who is passionate about working closely with clients to solve complex problems and lead them on a journey from discovery to technical implementation. You have a knack for understanding client needs and delivering market-leading solutions and have worked in Technology Consulting | Business Analysis | Software Development

You will love and excel in this role if you:

• Have a strong background in Technology Consulting, played a Senior Manager role within a top-tier consulting company.
• Have a refined understanding of how modern software is built and delivered (tools, methodologies, roles, common challenges etc.)
• A demonstrated knowledge of different methods and tools that help you to perform analysis, testing, product management and delivery in a range of environment
• Know how to effectively communicate information between people at all levels of the business, in written and verbal form
• Have a passion for accruing knowledge, and using that knowledge to continuously improve yourself and the team’s performance
• Personal interest in best practice and trends of the technology industry, with the ability to apply these to your day-to-day work
• A relationship builder by nature, and someone who can thrive in new teams and new situations
• A proactive person who knows what needs to be done, how to approach it, and how to influence others to move things forward
• An ambitious person who is excited about the prospect of joining a small, close-knit ANZ team of experts and helping it to grow

The Exciting Part

Simple Machines is not your average consultancy or software engineering firm. Our team is comprised of inspiring industry leaders in Consulting, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Our projects, for a global client base, are data-focused and drive real change.

About the Role

We are looking for someone to join our close-knit team of experts to help deliver our client engagements as we scale our ANZ business. If you excel in client facing roles, have a deep understanding of how modern software is built and delivered, and have a passion for technology then we’d love to hear from you.

Here’s a brief overview of the role’s responsibilities:

Drive the engagement

• Understand each clients’ unique business needs, the ‘why’ behind each project and develop solutions that will fulfil each clients’ success criteria
• Act as a translator between business teams and technology delivery
• Develop domain expertise unique to each engagement

Feed the engineering team

• Provide high quality written requirements, acceptance criteria, feature overviews, test cases and other artefacts for the team to work from
• Run effective meetings with team and stakeholders

Drive the team’s direction

• Clearly articulate the business needs and work with the tech team to translate these into technical requirements
• Persuade the client and the SM team on what should be done and why

Increase the team’s speed

• Understand and anticipate dependencies in software delivery
• Enable decision making through excellent communication

Assure the team’s focus

• Protect the engineering team from day to day ‘noise’
• Embed and optimise processes to handle our scope of work and new demand

Assure SM’s position with the client

• Build and nurture relationships with clients at all levels
• Help to manage SM’s delivery risk

The role:

In this newly created role, you will spearhead and lead our acquisition focus in the ANZ market for our industry leading Transport Management System (TMS). 

Established over 18 years ago in the Australian market, TransVirtual is a fully integrated platform connecting agents, carriers, and logistic businesses all over the globe. Its strength is in its simplicity and scalability, as well its ability to integrate multiple carriers for a full 360-degree view of your logistics business.   

This role is of strategic importance to open pathways to introduce our technology with transport and logistics companies all over ANZ. You will have a background in sourcing new business opportunities be it over the phone and face to face; and have extensive experience with negotiating high level deals that may be complex in structure.

Having knowledge of the logistics industry will be a huge benefit, but most importantly your ability to understand quicky the relationships and connections to unlock deals will be paramount. Because of the nature of these partnership opportunities, networking, connecting with key decision makers and having a presence online and in person at key events will play an important role in your success.  

In support, we have a resourceful and dedicated team with decades of experience in the logistics space. As we are making in-roads into this market, this role represents a unique opportunity to make your mark and help grow this exciting technology abroad.    

Your key stakeholders will be our Head of Sales and General Manager. 

Why you will love this role:

• Become a sales leader in a brand-new market: We have a robust plan to expand further in the ANZ market, to connect our platform to businesses in the ANZ market. Get in the door early to grow within the ranks of a fast paced and growing organization.   
• Join a dedicated and experienced team: you’ll work alongside a dedicated and experienced team who have carved out a solid reputation for operational experience.  
• Drive your initiatives to success: a large part of this role will you bringing your own ideas and experiences to meet the needs of our acquisition targets. As a business we thrive on everyone’s initiative to grow the business. 
• The team is built on accountability and trust: we have built our foundations on a Charter of Culture to support the team to meet milestones, drive to better performance and have open and honest communication…. always
• Friendly, remote team: we are a fun team, largely based in Australia, but also Philippines, India, USA, and Pakistan. You’ll get the chance to collaborate with multiple teams who are all inclusive and open.

Essential Skills / qualifications:

• 4+ years’ experience in a business development role. 
• Adept at sourcing and following up opportunities to meet sales targets.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Experience in managing a contact pipeline – CRM updates (we use HubSpot)
• Networking experience to connect with business owners and managers. 
• A proven talent for opening doors and negotiating strategic deals.
• Ability to think and act fast as directions change to meet sales quota 
  
  

Desired Skills:

• Marketing university degree or equivalent – maturity in your thinking is what we are after
• Understanding/experience of the logistics sector / SaaS businesses
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills – find and close deals.
• Ability to connect with a range of customers and finding key buying habits of prospects
• Great team player who understands the importance of working together to meet a common goal.

About TransVirtual:

TransVirtual is a modern SaaS business, delivering industry-leading logistics solutions. 

Inspired by his family’s involvement in the transport industry, our founder set out to build a truly configurable Transport Management System (TMS) that could adapt to the diverse needs of this sector. We’ve built on our unique selling point of configurability by developing a deep network which allows transport businesses to process more data, more effectively, through extensive integrations. 

Today we have evolved our product set beyond TMS and offer a complete logistics solution, expanding beyond Australia into New Zealand, USA and Canada.

Our culture is constantly evolving, and we ensure strategic alignment through clear goals set using OKRs. We thrive on positive, consistent, and collaborative communication, necessary for a remote first business. We support that through fortnightly all hands meetings and Quarterly Workshops including Retros.

We’re always looking for outstanding candidates to join us as Technology, Logistics and Growth experts. So, if you’re excited by this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!