Data Business Analyst | Senior Manager

Macquarie Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Macquarie Group is seeking a Data Business Analyst to deliver transformation initiatives within the Financial Management Portfolio. The role blends business and data analysis to support future-state finance solutions across Finance, Tax, Treasury and Operating Groups.

You will define data requirements, establish data lineage and governance, and ensure alignment with data architecture and reporting outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Data Business Analyst or similar role within large-scale finance, regulatory, or data transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience with end-to-end data flows, including defining business and data requirements, source-to-target mappings, data models, data flows lineage, and data quality controls.
• Ability to partner with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Risk, Data, and Technology stakeholders to deliver complex business and reporting outcomes.
• Experience working with Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architects, and Business Architects to shape and deliver strategic solutions.
• Proven capability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams with strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver transformation initiatives within the Financial Management Portfolio.
• Blend Business Analyst and Data Business Analyst work to understand business outcomes and support future-state capabilities for Finance solutions.
• Define how data should be captured, structured, used, governed and distributed to enable downstream reporting and finance outcomes.
• Align business needs with data architecture and reporting outcomes through discovery, testing and documentation.
• Collaborate with Solution Architecture and Business Architecture teams to support detailed requirements gathering and delivery planning.

Skills

Data analysis

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Business analysis

Data modeling

Requirement gathering

Job description

What role will you play?

As a Data Business Analyst, you will play a key role in delivering a significant transformation initiatives within the Financial Management Portfolio. Working in a hybrid Business Analyst and Data Business Analyst capacity, you will partner closely with subject matter experts, business stakeholders, architects, and technology teams to understand business outcomes and support the delivery of future-state capabilities to support Finance solutions. You will work across Finance, Tax, Treasury, and Operating Group stakeholders to understand business events and the resulting data and reporting requirements. You will help define how data should be captured, structured, used, governed, and distributed; ensuring requirements are accurately translated into architectural models and solution design to enable downstream reporting and finance outcomes. Your role will focus on understanding current and future-state processes, defining and documenting business and data requirements, identifying and defining data quality rules, analysing data patterns through discovery and testing activities, ensuring alignment between business needs, data architecture, and reporting outcomes. You will also work closely with Solution Architecture and Business Architecture teams as high-level designs are finalised, supporting detailed requirements gathering and delivery planning through to implementation with technology teams. In addition, you will collaborate with key stakeholders to establish data lineage, ensuring data requirements, transformation processes, traceability, and criticality are appropriately captured and aligned to Data Governance standards and activities.

What you offer

Experience as a Data Business Analyst, Business Analyst, or similar role within large-scale finance, regulatory, or data transformation initiatives

• Strong experience working with end-to-end data flows, including defining business and data requirements, source-to-target mappings, data models, data flows lineage, and data quality controls
• Experience partnering with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Risk, Data, and Technology stakeholders to deliver complex business and reporting outcomes
• Ability to understand business events, identify reporting and data requirements, and translate these into clear, actionable documentation and delivery outcomes
• Experience working closely with Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architects, and Business Architects to shape and deliver strategic solutions
• Proven capability to work collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams, with strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer

At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks' paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months' gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks' paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Financial Management, People and Engagement

Financial Management, People and Engagement (FPE) provides a single interface for Macquarie's businesses across key areas of people, strategy, communications and financial management. Comprising two pillars - Financial Management, and People and Engagement - it is responsible for managing the Group's financial, tax and treasury activities and strategic priorities, fostering our culture through people and community engagement strategies, and engaging with stakeholders to protect and promote Macquarie's reputation globally.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.