Senior Business Analyst - Workforce Planning (12mth FTC)

ASX Limited; Australia Landing (MS); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Flexible working

Job summary

ASX Group is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to drive Workday HCM, Position Management and Workday Adaptive Planning initiatives. You will partner with cross‑functional teams across P&C, Finance and Technology to define requirements and ensure a smooth delivery.

The role supports flexible working arrangements, a matrix work environment, and rigorous change management to enable adoption and benefits realization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years dedicated business analysis experience.
• Experience supporting Workday HCM and Position Management implementations.
• Experience in gathering stakeholder needs and translating to functional requirements.
• Experience in modelling business processes and data requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis across Workday HCM, Position Management and Workday Adaptive Planning for P&C.
• Perform gap analysis on current and target states with stakeholders.
• Define data, reporting and integration requirements for related systems.
• Develop and validate requirements using epics, features and user stories.
• Coordinate with project teams and ensure alignment to BAU.

Skills

Effective communication

Facilitation

Influencing

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

CBAP (IIBA) certification

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX? When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all. In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub. Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

We are more than a securities exchange! The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance. We’re proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we’re committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Your responsibilities

• Lead business analysis across Position Management, Workforce Planning and Financial Planning to support the end-to-end implementation and adoption of Workday Adaptive Planning for P&C.
• Work with impacted stakeholders to perform deep dive gap analysis on the As-Is state and the To Be State, allowing for effective review by project team members and impacted stakeholders.
• Liaise with assigned Project/Program Owners and Subject Matter Experts for elicitation, analysis, prioritisation and approval of new business requests within associated projects.
• Define transitions of business processes to the strategic state, with interim/tactical states where needed, including the connected operating model, roles, accountabilities, governance, controls and decision rights required for workforce and financial planning.
• Analyse and map process flows, domain models, system data flows and associated life cycle events to determine and manage transition to the target state.
• Elicit, prepare and manage business requirements, including functional and non-functional requirements, in the form of epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria, and clearly articulate these to developers, testers, vendors and project stakeholders.
• Define and validate data, reporting, planning, security and integration requirements across Workday HCM, Position Management, Workday Adaptive Planning and related systems.
• Use formal modelling techniques to assist in the representation of business requirements.
• Liaise with counterparts in related internal project/domain teams to understand dependencies, constraints and associated requirements, and agree upon and deliver solutions. Maintain clear links between requirements, risks, decisions and delivery outcomes across P&C, Finance, Technology and implementation partners.
• Review and contribute to specific test scenarios and the overall Test Strategy, and lead business validation and readiness for user acceptance testing.
• Liaise with IT solution providers, internal and external, on project progress, requirements clarification and problem resolution.
• Ability to assume cross-functional responsibilities when needed, such as running project coordination, daily stand-ups, retros and backlog grooming sessions.
• Work with Release Management to ensure a smooth implementation and transition phase.
• Contribution to change management activities and preparation of training artefacts that would enable impacted stakeholders to apply the changes introduced by a delivered business requirement.
• Conduct peer review of business analysis artefacts to ensure quality and alignment to framework.
• Produce high-quality business analysis deliverables using relevant techniques and tools in line with the ASX delivery framework.
• You are a practitioner/team member of the Business Analyst Capability Community of Practice (CoP).

Your experience and qualifications

Must have

• Business analysis experience supporting a Workday HCM and Position Management implementation, including defining business, process and data requirements and confirming that the solution meets business needs.
• 5+ years dedicated business analysis experience.
• Experience working independently on Tier 1 projects across the full SDLC from early ideation to execution and embedment in BAU.
• Deep understanding of the business analysis fundamentals.
• Experience in gathering stakeholder needs and translating these to detailed functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience analysing and designing integrated processes, operating models, governance, controls and data requirements across Position Management, Workforce Planning or Financial Planning.
• Experience in business process modelling using software such as MS Visio or other enterprise endorsed platforms.
• Experience using Atlassian tool suite, including JIRA and Confluence.
• Effective communication, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills. Can collaborate with stakeholders across seniority levels and lead cross-functional analysis across P&C, Finance and Technology.
• Demonstrated effective problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve competing requirements and manage change within a dynamic environment.
• Be comfortable working within a matrix structure.
• Experience working with Change Management and influencing user behaviour.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting Workday Adaptive Planning or an equivalent enterprise planning platform.
• Experience delivering Workforce Planning or Financial Planning transformation.
• A recognised business-analysis certification, such as IIBA CBAP.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

• We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.