Finance Data & Automation Analyst

News Corporation; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Flexible leave options

Parental leave

Because We Care program

Hackdays

Job summary

News Corporation in Melbourne is seeking a Data and Systems Analyst to own the team's data, systems and reporting. You will translate business needs into clear system requirements, lead reporting, and drive data quality across core platforms.

You will partner with Finance Operations and FaBS to improve automation and support AI-enabled use cases while delivering measurable business value in a permanent, Melbourne-based role.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience in finance operations or business systems analysis.
• Experience translating business problems into clear requirements for processes, data, reporting or systems.
• Hands-on with NetSuite, Salesforce, Tableau; focus on workflow and data quality improvement.
• Strong analytical capability with metrics and root-cause analysis.
• Experience partnering with technology or platform teams within governance models.
• Automation/AI use-case understanding; improve data readiness rather than over-engineering solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Zendesk experience is required.
• Knowledge of visualization tools (e.g. Miro) to document processes.
• Experience with AI enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to translate business needs into clear system, data, reporting and workflow requirements across core platforms.
• Lead our reporting and data requirements, including metric definitions, business rules, data quality expectations and a prioritised pipeline of enhancement requests.
• Act as the primary liaison for our team on matters relating to our systems, reporting, workflow and operational data.
• Improve data readiness by strengthening data definitions, traceability, controls, documentation and source-to-report consistency so reporting, automation and AI-enabled use cases can be trusted and scaled safely.
• Analyse processes and data to identify practical opportunities for automation, improved reporting and AI-enabled use cases.
• Work within existing platform governance to raise, shape and support delivery of enhancements that improve efficiency, control, data quality and user experience.
• Support data quality, controls and documentation practices that enable reliable reporting, automation and AI use cases.
• Support adoption of delivered changes through documentation, testing coordination, training, feedback loops and change enablement.
• Surface operational insights and data to inform on process efficiency, service performance, reporting requirements and data quality.
• Help ensure our requirements are well-defined, testable and measurable, and that delivered changes solve the right business problem.

Skills

Finance operations

Business systems analysis

Stakeholder management

Analytics & metrics

Automation/AI awareness

Communication

Tools

NetSuite

Salesforce

Tableau

Zendesk

Miro

Job description

News Corporation in Melbourne is seeking a Data and Systems Analyst to own the team's data, systems and reporting. You will translate business needs into clear system requirements, lead reporting, and drive data quality across core platforms.

You will partner with Finance Operations and FaBS to improve automation and support AI-enabled use cases while delivering measurable business value in a permanent, Melbourne-based role.