Are you a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst with a strong background in finance, driving initiatives to improve reporting, forecasting and commercial performance? Do you thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy making a positive difference, excel at data integrity and have a proven track record working with products and complexity? If so, this opportunity will appeal to you.
About The Role
We are seeking a detail-oriented, resourceful Senior Business Analyst with a strong finance and project background to join our dynamic team. This role requires more than exceptional analysis and reporting skills, through excellent communication, you will work collaboratively with key stakeholders and the broader business. This role acts as a link between Finance, IT, Sales and Operations, supporting the development and improvement of data structures, streamlining processes and systems to generate tailored analysis for decision making across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and continue to improve reporting relevance and ensure business information needs are met.
- Develop a deep understanding of the complexities and linkages of the business including; business data and systems and through this deep understanding, develop relevant information to drive effective and efficient business strategy execution.
- Review, verify and manage datasets across all areas of the business.
- Identify, analyse and resolve data inconsistencies, duplicates and anomalies, applying business rules for categorisation and classification and work with relevant stakeholders to apply corrective actions accordingly.
- Assist with ongoing review and alignment of customer, product and pricing data with frameworks and policy and work with relevant stakeholders to improve controls validations and process streamlining and act as the custodian of pricing.
- Manage and optimise data systems, leveraging Business Intelligence (BI) tools to enhance reporting and connectivity across sales functions and hold superuser responsibilities for relevant systems as required.
- Develop and maintain relevant databases for accurate reporting to meet business needs and to provide actionable insights to drive improved business outcomes.
- Advanced excel modelling capability to assist with current requirements and to remain agile but understand the need to transition broader business data and information management to modern applications.
- Drive initiatives to improve sales reporting connectivity, including sales area allocation, change management and change process oversight.
- Collaborate with all cross-functional teams including, Sales, Finance, IT, Product Management and Operations to clarify requirements, resolve anomalies and standardise data practices.
- Coordinate stakeholders to implement changes and ensure smooth integration across systems.
- Excellent communicator who will engage positively with the business.
Qualifications & Skills
- Tertiary qualifications in Finance, Data Science, Statistics, Business Administration, or a related discipline; a Master's degree is highly regarded.
- CPA qualification is considered an added advantage.
- Skilled in developing reports and dashboards using Power BI.
- Strong analytical abilities with a proven track record of interpreting complex data and delivering actionable insights.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage stakeholders across all levels and functions.
- Proactively thinking and inquisitive to identify and are intuitively aware of gaps, and prioritising mitigations.
- Advanced Excel knowledge including VBA, Macros, Power Query and other Office 365 applications.
- Solid understanding of database models.
- Strong practical experience with data warehousing concepts and Business Intelligence tools such as TM1 and Power BI.
- Proven experience in an analytical role, with at least 5 years in finance, accounting, or data analytics, demonstrating strong attention to detail.
- Experienced in cleaning, managing, and validating large datasets, with a solid understanding of data quality and integrity issues.
About the Benefits
- Join a globally respected brand and market leader with highly skilled, technical and people leaders.
- Collaborative environment providing resources and support to be successful.
- Work onsite from the Hills District with onsite covered parking just minutes from public transport.
- Internal progression opportunities.
- Insurance benefits within the company superannuation plan.
- Focus on employee Wellbeing & Employee Assistance Programs.