Business Analyst

LivaNova; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

LivaNova is seeking a Business Analyst to join the Finance team in ANZ, partnering with Commercial to deliver actionable insights and robust reporting. You will own margin analysis, support pricing reviews, and provide cross-functional analysis with stakeholders across Finance, Sales, and Operations.

Strong Excel and Power BI skills, plus experience with ERP systems and large data sets, are essential to influence business decisions and support annual planning.

Qualifications

• Finance/Accounting qualification required.
• 2+ years in a fast-paced industry or large firm.
• Strong Excel/modelling skills and ability to handle large data sets.
• Familiarity with ERP systems and BI tools.
• Effective communication and presentation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and maintain a reporting suite for the ANZ commercial team.
• Provide margin analysis and actionable insights for sales growth.
• Support contract negotiations with third parties and pricing reviews.
• Prepare weekly/monthly sales and forecast reports for leadership.
• Calculate and validate sales commissions and incentive targets.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Power BI

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Analytical thinking

Education

Finance/Accounting qualification

CA/CPA considered

Tools

Exact

Power BI

Onestream

SAP

Job description

This Business Analyst (BA) plays a vital role in the Finance team and reports into the Senior Finance Manager- ANZ. The BA is expected to work closely with the Commercial team and provide business partnering and actionable insights to ANZ leadership team.

Collaboration and effective communication will be key to their success. Equipped with strong stakeholder management, problem solving and presentation skills, the BA can build strong relationship with members of the Finance team and also cross-functionally. There are regular collaborations with commercial, operations and customer service teams, so soft skills like people management is essential to be successful in this role.

Essential Job Functions

• Deliver and maintain reporting suite for ANZ commercial team including sales dashboard with supporting information
• Provide monthly and quarterly margin analysis to identify lower margin product and accounts to commercial team
• Work closely with commercial team and provide actionable insight to support sales growth and adhoc analysis as and when required with quick turnround
• Provide insights and trend analysis for sales tender for hospitals required by sales team including account and product level information
• Own calculation of Sales incentive program on quarterly basis including support in Incentive target setting and actual performance in line with global incentive program
• Provide financial analysis and insight required for contract negotiation with third party products
• Provide sales information and trend analysis by sales rep, by product and account for monthly and quarterly commercial reviews
• Support Country Director and commercial team on annual Price review

Monthly Tasks

• Prepare revenue reconciliations (TP transaction currency, revenue by country adjustment).
• Prepare month end reports – Debtor, inventory, and freight report.
• Upload local P&L to global system (OneStream) and precheck against budget.
• Prepare MOP reporting.

Quarterly Tasks

• Prepare on deferred revenue file (service contract adjustment, defer NGEGB) – using power query to look up contract term.
• Prepare quarterly deliverables (out of period, equipment on loan).
• Update the variance analysis for P&L and BS.
• Calculate and validate sales commission payments.
• Support P-Club reporting and performance tracking.
• Prepare reporting and analysis for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs).

Forecasting

• Prepare weekly sales landing reports.
• Support forecast and outlook submissions, including OneStream updates and consolidations.
• Maintain sales forecasts and track performance against budget and forecast.
• Monitor QA budget performance and actual expenditure.
• Track Capex and inventory performance.
• Support marketing spends reporting and budget tracking.

Annual Planning Activities

• Assist with target setting and distribution for Territory Managers and Service teams.
• Month end reporting submissions
• Support broader finance team during month end and quarter end with adhoc activities and analysis
• Prepare, analyze and report weekly, monthly, quarterly end close process, incl. weekly sales report by franchise
• Provide support to Senior Finance Manager during quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting process
• Project support work as SME

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other business software tools required for professional financial analysis and communication. Knowledge of Power BI is added advantage
• An astute communicator with excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to develop relationships at all levels in the organization and directly influencing business objectives
• Strong presentation skills, problem solving skills, attention to details and ability to perform root cause analysis
• Excellent influencing, partnering skills and commercial mindset
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong passion for technology and how it can help improve business processes
• Proactive, self-driven with high career aspirations
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail

Required Education & Experience

• Finance/Accounting qualified (IT qualifications and/or CA/CPA qualifications will be highly regarded)
• 2+ years of experience in fast paced industry or medium- large audit firm
• Exceptional analytical and insight skills (very strong Excel/modelling skills and be able to operate with multiple large data sets)
• Demonstrated knowledge of standard costing and systems
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, familiar with ERP accounting systems; preferable experience with Exact, Power BI, Onestream & SAP
• Able to communicate effectively with APAC, European and US colleagues