The Opportunity

The Technical Business Analyst is primarily responsible for understanding the business objectives and translating them into technical requirements. Working with multiple teams across the business, this role is responsible for translating stakeholder objectives into technical requirements, help articulate business value, assist in identifying solution options including pros-cons for each, support prioritisation and ensure that the changes and impacts are understood by the affected parties.

Responsibilities of this role include (but are not limited to):

• Conduct analysis of business issues, technical challenges and help articulate business impact and value
• Partner with key technical stakeholders to identify solution options, articulating pro-cons for each and assist in designing solution architecture.  
• Work closely with business stakeholders and partner stakeholders in defining and mapping business process, also help them in prioritisation based on business impact and value
• Distill requirements into succinct scenarios (user stories) with acceptance criteria and validation rules
• Coordinate and assist with User Acceptance Testing for technical implementations
• Support change management activities - Work with Power Users to develop user support guidelines and documentation to ensure processes are followed correctly and data integrity is maintained
• Contribute to the assessment of integrating third-party applications into existing systems
• Support Delivery Lead in conducting Agile rituals effectively and also provide relevant information required for project management and governance
• Promote Agile ways of working and help team in improving their understating of agile methodology

This is a 6 month fixed term contract with view to extension.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Strong and demonstrated skills in business process analysis and mapping
• Experience with Salesforce Administration highly regarded
• Strong understanding and knowledge of SDLC within an Agile environment
• Sound knowledge in maintenance and access to data and information, including the ability to identify, design, extract, and report on complex datasets, with a good understanding of SQL and relational data structures
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of configuration and coding practices of SaaS systems, ideally including AWS and Salesforce modules.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, operate autonomously with little direction as well as see the big picture
• Exceptional team player with a willingness to perform tasks outside their role when required
• Demonstrate initiative, flexibility and an ability to work under pressure
• Experience liaising with vendors and external organisations
• Familiarity with information management applications
• Experience in education sector and understanding of student lifecycle will be advantageous
• Relevant certification in Agile methodology and demonstrable experience agile ways of working is high desirable  

About OES

OES is a vibrant and values led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams to be student focused, innovative and embrace change with a growth mindset to ensure we achieve our vision of being the world’s most impactful enabler of education. We encourage our people to grow and develop through teamwork and a diverse range of projects, programs and challenging work. We trust our people to deliver, so when you work with OES, you will join a team who are empowered to impact every day.

What’s in it for you?

Along with joining a passionate, energetic and highly skilled team, this role will allow you to gain exposure to many growth and development opportunities. OES offers a hybrid, flexible approach to work, where we work 2-3 days from our state-of-the-art Cremorne office, and the rest from home (or wherever you choose!). Breakfast, snacks, table tennis, Nintendo Switch are all available in the office, as well as an in-house massage therapist and weekly staff drinks. Ultimately, you will be joining a values-driven, collaborative business where your creativity and innovation will be nurtured and celebrated.

If this role is of interest, please apply now with your updated CV.

We are currently looking for an experienced Business Development Manager to join our Portfolio Sales and Marketing team in looking after our 12 Strata Hotels across Australia and New Zealand. This role is Sydney, NSW based and you will have the flexibility to work at 3 of our Sydney Strata hotels, Sydney Corporate Office as well as remotely. 

The primary focus of the Business Development Manager - HMA Strata role is on 
expanding corporate and meeting and events segments driving revenue growth within 
the HMA Strata Portfolio. This is achieved through the management of key accounts 
while actively seeking new business opportunities to increase revenue for corporate 
and meeting and events segments. Collaboration with the HMA Strata Sales team is 
essential to efficiently follow up on leads and ensure all potential business avenues 
are explored.

The Business Development Manager in conjunction with the Director of Sales – HMA Strata
are responsible for managing key and local accounts and new business development 
for all unmanaged accounts across corporate, inbound and meeting and events 
segments within the Strata Portfolio. This role works in tandem with the Sales Executive 
HMA Strata to ensure all leads and potential business is followed up efficiently.

• 12 month fixed term contract
• Hybrid working as standard
• Work with purpose

About Us

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

We support nearly two million members, with around $75 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.

About the Job

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.

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 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.