Business Analyst - (Af295 - Baca-2620-482-1)

Affinity Migration Group Pty; Ballarat; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Nixora Group Pty Ltd is seeking a Business Analyst in Victoria to drive change across multiple workstreams. You will engage stakeholders to elicit and validate requirements for changes in business processes and systems, ensuring alignment to target architecture and regulatory expectations.

The role emphasizes translating business needs into detailed specifications and user stories, coordinating testing and change activities, and maintaining traceability from requirements through design, build

Qualifications

• Experience delivering business analysis across multiple workstreams.
• Translate business needs into functional specifications and user stories.
• Coordinate testing, implementation and change management activities.
• Document detailed business requirements and translate into testable outcomes.
• Analyze services, define data mapping and interface specifications.
• Maintain traceability from requirements through design, build and testing.
• Develop and govern test plans and participate in UAT/SIT cycles.
• Prepare teams for process and system changes and user adoption.
• Ensure readiness with internal teams and vendors for new features.
• Identify and manage risks related to data quality, dependencies or testing.
• Collaborate using JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint and MS Teams.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Promote knowledge sharing and single sources of truth for project documentation.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse, and confirm business requirements for data, model, process, and system changes.
• Translate business needs into detailed functional specifications and user stories, ensuring technology outcomes are fit for purpose, testable, and aligned to the program’s target architecture.
• Support testing, implementation, and change management activities to ensure new solutions are deployed effectively and meet regulatory and business needs.
• Collaborate across teams to document detailed business requirements and translate them into testable technical outcomes.
• Convert requirements into stories, acceptance criteria, and system designs; define data mappings and transformation rules.
• Document system dependencies and maintain traceability from requirements to testing.
• Develop and govern test plans and participate in UAT/SIT to validate requirements.
• Prepare teams for process and system changes and drive user adoption.
• Work with internal teams and vendors to ensure readiness for business use and post-implementation support.
• Analyze logs and data to identify root causes and document learnings for improvement.
• Coordinate with SMEs, developers, testers, and vendors to ensure cohesive delivery.
• Identify and manage risks to data quality and testing.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Requirements analysis

User stories

Test planning

Change management

Process mapping

System design

Traceability

Risk management

Data analysis

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

MS Teams

Job description

Job Description

Nixora Group Pty Ltd

Job Brief

Position: Business Analyst
Location: VIC
Job type: Full Time, 38 hours/week

The Beginning

The Nixora Group journey began in 2016 when we first started managing the Moody’s Analytics credit risk engine RiskAuthority™ implementation at ANZ Bank with a small team of three.

Mission

We strive to be the leading implementation team in the region, delivering exceptional service with a collaborative approach and to exceed client expectations.

We are global

We aim to lead in global risk system implementation through innovation, technology, and adaptability. Trust us for high-quality risk management services.

Key Accountabilities

As a Business Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in defining and delivering change across multiple workstreams. You’ll liaise with diverse stakeholders to elicit and validate requirements for changes in business processes and systems, ensuring solutions align to the program’s target state.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Engagement: Gather, analyse, and confirm business requirements for data, model, process, and system changes.

• Solution Definition: Translate business needs into detailed functional specifications and user stories, ensuring technology outcomes are fit for purpose, testable, and aligned to the program’s target architecture.

• Delivery Coordination: Support testing, implementation, and change management activities to ensure new solutions are deployed effectively and meet regulatory and business needs.
• Requirements Definition: Collaborate across teams to document detailed business requirements and translate them into testable technical outcomes. This may include reviewing existing analytical or data transformation code to determine current state processes.
• Analysis and Design: Convert requirements into stories, acceptance criteria, and system designs. Analyse existing services, perform field-level data analysis, define intra-system mapping and transformation rules, and document interface specifications.
• Dependency Mapping: Document system dependencies, information flows, and constraints. Maintain traceability from requirements through design, build, and testing.
• Testing Oversight: Develop and govern test plans and cases. Participate in various testing cycles (e.g., UAT, SIT) to validate requirements. Where possible, promote test automation for efficiency.
• Change Implementation: Prepare teams for process and system changes, ensuring operational readiness and user adoption.
• Operational Readiness: Work with internal teams and vendors to ensure new features or platforms are ready for business use and post-implementation support.
• Issue Resolution: Analyse logs and data to identify root causes, manage defect resolution, and document learnings for continuous improvement.
• Collaboration Tools: Use platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, and MS Teams to document requirements, designs, test evidence, and progress updates. Promote knowledge sharing and single sources of truth for project documentation.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with business SMEs, developers, testers, and vendors to ensure solutions are delivered cohesively. Facilitate workshops or working groups to resolve design issues and decisions, keeping everyone aligned.
• Risk Management: Identify and manage risks related to data quality, system dependencies, or testing impacts, ensuring mitigation strategies are in place.

You will report directly to Daniel Cicero, Nixora Group Director and to any other party designated by a director of Nixora Group Pty Ltd in connection with the performance of the duties under this Agreement, and shall fulfil any other reasonable duty requested by the Company.