About the opportunity

Join our Education Vertical as an Application Support Team Lead in Melbourne to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have, every code line we write and every interface we design is another opportunity for us to enrich our customers’ experiences.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Service Delivery, this role will lead a team of Support professionals to meet the needs of our customers on software related enquiries. As an Application Support Team Leader, you will drive engagement, excellence, and a focus on building relationships with our customers and colleagues; whilst meeting and exceeding service levels agreements for the resolution of support tickets. 

Some of the other responsibilities include:

• Manage a regional team of Application Support Advisors in the delivery of software customer service
• Collaborate with engineering peers to provide customer resolutions within agreed SLAs, advocating customer needs to effectively prioritise support ticket resolution 
• Partner with leadership and commercial teams to identify and plan essential work in the context of Application Support 
• Responsible for the maintenance and performance of customer satisfaction levels, ensuring quality service is provided consistently  
• Ensure that the team adheres to regional policies within Application Support for Xplor products 
• Contribute to frameworks and internal resources to support the resolution of technical issues within your team 
• Find new ways to reduce the average ticket turnaround time and improve SLAs 
• Champion the standards for voice of the customer in both delivery and execution 
• Manage staff performance against relevant KPI’s standards  
• Support your team, where required, in customer meetings and calls, to review support issues and implement appropriate actions  

For this position, we offer a hybrid and flexible working model, where you will spend 2 days per week in the office and 3 working from home.

About us

Australian Healthcare Associates (AHA) is Australia's largest health and human services consultancy.  We partner with Commonwealth and State governments to improve health and social outcomes for Australians.  

AHA’s story is all about its people. We are a high-performing team of valued, talented, diverse individuals who pull together with the shared goal of consistently delivering great outcomes.  We invest in people and enjoy industry-leading conditions and low staff turnover. 

The Role

AHA has a small in-house IT team managing a range of bespoke software solutions, which provide critical infrastructure and services across Australia.  They range from application registration and program management to securely importing and analysing millions of lines of data each month. 

We're looking for a full-time Business Analyst to join our small, dedicated team.  The team is business-aligned. We conduct COTS implementations, and design bespoke software solutions, including ongoing enhancements, for projects and clients.  

This position is for an early career Business Analyst of approximately three (3) years' experience.

As part of the team, you’ll:

• Elicit requirements from different technical and business stakeholders using a variety of techniques
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to guide and establish the technical vision
• Liaise between the business units, technology teams and support teams
• Participate in the defect identification and rectification process, including providing advice and assistance to the Test team
• Develop and maintain documentation as required
• Work from home four days a week and in our Melbourne office with your team one day a week.

About you

• You’re a Business Analyst with approximately three (3) years’ experience in the industry
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse teams across all levels of business, technology, and external clients and vendors
• You're a self-starter: motivated and able to prioritise work with minimal oversight
• You’re able to work independently with users to define concepts as well as and under direction of the project manager
• You are able to create and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external
• You take ownership and accountability for outcomes
• You are extremely detailed oriented and able to define requirements to a highly detailed level.

You’ll receive excellent remuneration aligned with your skills and experience and enjoy being part of a close-knit, friendly team of professionals.

To apply please upload your CV and a cover letter addressing each of the following six (6) selection criteria:

Selection Criteria

1. Demonstrated experience in Business Analysis
2. Ability to convey and explain information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences
3. Creative and effective problem-solving skills
4. Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously, taking responsibility and ownership for your work
5. Proven continual improvement orientation
6. Desirable:

• Working knowledge of, and recent experience using, an agile development methodology
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps and its use in managing features and user stories; system development; and testing.

Applications close 5pm Tuesday 2 April 2024.

All questions can be directed to [email protected]

Due to the nature of the work, applicants must have Australian citizenship.

Please note: This is a readvertisement of the role. Previous applicants are kindly requested not to apply.

Further information about AHA is available at our website: www.ahaconsulting.com.au

Agency applications will not be considered.

AHA is an Equal Opportunity Employer who provides an inclusive work environment and embraces the diverse talent of its people. We support flexible and accessible working arrangements for all. This includes people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally, religiously, and linguistically diverse people, young people, older people, and people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer. All are encouraged to apply.

What you’ll do 

In your new role, as a Financial Viability Analyst, your key focus will be to use your financial analysis, credit & liquidity analysis, and data management skills to collect and analyse financial statements, provide recommendations, and prepare evidence based assessment reports for our customers on organizations tendering for a range of contracts. This will utilise your financial literacy & numeracy skills, as well as your ability to analyse financial statements and assign assessment scores and rating based on financial capabilities.

You will prepare evidence based reports that identify key issues and insights and make recommendations, so strong report writing and presentation skills are essential.

Using your strong stakeholder management skills, you will build rapport with external senior stakeholders in the Government and Private sectors to obtain key information such as report requirements, financial statements, assessment scope and any additional queries. You can demonstrate your time management, multi-tasking and prioritization skills, and the ability to meet deadlines and performance targets.

In addition, you will keep abreast of industry developments to ensure you are familiar with the business drivers, dynamics, macro-economic environment and challenges across a range of markets. 

What experience do you need? 

●  Degree qualifications in Accounting or Finance, ideally supported with CPA, CA or CFA Qualifications

● Corporate experience in financial services & banking domain preferred

● Commercial experience in accounting and financial statement and financial & credit analysis

● Understanding of risk management and mitigation

● Ability to meet deadlines and performance targets   

What could set you apart? 

● Ability to analyse data to form recommendations and provide insights

● ​Ability to multi-task & manage work priorities in a fast paced environment

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