Senior Business Analyst - Data

SEEK; Kuala Lumpur; Remote; MYR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm in Asia Pacific is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in Kuala Lumpur to provide expert business analysis and drive data-driven initiatives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage complex requirements, and ensure stakeholder alignment. Ideal candidates have over 8 years of experience in business analysis, strong communication skills, and expertise in SQL and AWS. The company offers flexible working arrangements and a culture of inclusion.

Benefits

Annual Performance Bonus Plan

Support for flexible working

Casual dress every day

Qualifications

• Over 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst.
• Demonstrated skills in managing complex requirements and driving initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Engage with key stakeholders to establish initiative scope and objectives.
• Drive the documentation of business requirements and feedback.
• Lead the delivery of complex initiatives and facilitate change management.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Data-driven problem solving

Education

Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline

Tools

SQL

AWS

Data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)

Job description

Company Description

About SEEK

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more productive and fulfilling working lives and to help organisations succeed.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a multinational technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility – it’s where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen.

Why join us?

Be part of a multinational tech company with strong core values to help us solve complex challenges while building a flexible, exciting career – one that could take you anywhere.We’re looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment.

As one of Asia Pacific’s largest tech companies, you’ll contribute to multilingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region.Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI. SEEK offers you the opportunity to be involved in impactful work and be part of a great team.

Expect a great investment in your career development with access to workshops, conferences & courses while you work alongside seasoned experts.

Job Description

About the Role

As a Senior Business Analyst in the data team, you will provide expert levels of Business Analysis capability and techniques, translating business needs into actionable requirements, guiding teams through the project lifecycle, and ensuring successful business outcomes. Maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders, you will facilitate clear communication, address challenges, and drive alignment across the business.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, such as data engineers, engineering managers, product managers, architects and data solution designers as you lead iterative delivery of data-driven initiatives. This role provides extensive exposure across the organization, offering valuable opportunities to gain deep insights into the full scope of our business operations.

About the Team

This role will be placed within the Data team, which is part of SEEKs Technology division. The Data team supports and maintains the platform where SEEKs data is hosted on, build data products that are used by business units across SEEK and provide Data Management and Privacy guidance for safe usage of SEEKs data.

Reporting to the Data Engagement Manager, you will be an integral member of the wider Data Services team, collaborating on a diverse range of use-cases across all part of SEEK.

Your key stakeholders would include, but not limited to, individuals across Sales and Service, Finance, Marketing, Product and AI & Platform, Online Engineering Teams in Hirer, Candidate and Platform domains across APAC.

Your peers would be Data Engineering Managers, Data Engineers and Data Solution designers, across all levels of experience.

Key Accountabilities

The following are key responsibilities the position will be accountable for on a day-to-day basis:

• Engage with key stakeholders to establish initiative scope, objectives, deliverables, and contribute to validating requirements and gathering feedback throughout the lifecycle.
• Drive the process of gathering and documenting business requirements, managing the relevant SEEK business partners and engineering teams to balance business aspirations with value generated for SEEK.
• Contribute to solution design based on business requirements while assessing and validating proposed solutions to ensure they address stakeholder needs and deliver measurable value.
• Lead and manage the delivery of multiple complex initiatives, ensuring all business analysis activities are aligned with initiative goals and deliver results.
• Facilitate change management processes to ensure smooth transition and adoption of new systems or processes.
• Lead risk analysis for complex initiatives, developing mitigation plans and ensuring risk is communicated effectively to stakeholders.
• Foster effective communication and collaboration across teams, ensuring smooth and successful initiative delivery.
• Support Data Services in communications opportunities such as steerco deck, newsletter writing, project status reporting and other stakeholder reporting.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Expert in conducting detailed business analysis, managing complex requirements, and driving initiative goals.
• Expertise in leading multiple iterations, ensuring smooth project delivery and continuous improvement.
• Strong skills in managing relationships with stakeholders to ensure clear communication, alignment, and expectation management throughout the project lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, adept at leading workshops and high-level stakeholder discussions.
• Strong analytical skills with experience solving complex business problems using data-driven approaches.
• Ability to think creatively and introduce innovative solutions to complex business problems.
• Experience in leading data-driven initiatives across multiple domains with significant impact.
• Experience in supporting change management processes, ensuring smooth transitions during the implementation of new systems or processes.
• Demonstrated ability to align business analysis with strategic business goals.
• Skills in navigating and managing highly complex stakeholder expectations, dynamics and conflicts
• Experience in working with teams and stakeholders across Asia & ANZ.
• 8+ years’ experience working in a Business Analyst capacity

Qualifications

Desired Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• Familiarity in SQL, AWS cloud services and platform
• Understanding of data pipelines, ETL process and data integration tools such as Airflow, Databricks or similar
• Prior experience working in online marketplace businesses would be considered ideal
• Basic know-how of data visualisation and BI tools like Tableau.
• Experience in working with data team on data-driven / data-enabled initiatives.
• Expertise in managing enterprise-level initiatives, ensuring alignment with business strategy and ability to influence senior leadership.
• Experience in managing large, complex initiatives with multiple dependencies and stakeholders.

Other Qualifications, Skills, Attributes and Experience

• Demonstrate strong alignment to ‘Our SEEK’ culture principles
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline would be ideal
• Prior experience in one of the following areas would be highly regarded:
  • Software Development/Engineering
  • IT Service Management or IT Business Analysis/Iteration Management

Open to internal candidates across ANZ and Asia

Additional Information

Perks and benefits
At SEEK we offer:

• Annual Performance Bonus Plan
• Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Casual dress – every day

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific supportor adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role, only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.