Senior Business Analyst - Exchange Traded Derivatives (12 Month Max Term Contract)

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.

About the team:

This role will be a key enabler for the analysis, design and development of BA project deliverables. This is role is required to evolve, extend and improve business process effectiveness and minimise risk whilst assessing new concepts against current systems and procedures, analysing stakeholder needs from and end-to-end perspective, engaging internal and external clients through various facilitation techniques and mediums, and providing high quality, fit for purpose business analysis artefacts. This role will be working on ASX24 Replacement Project.

What you will be doing:

• You are a practitioner/team member of the Business Analyst Capability Community of Practice (CoP). 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.
• Analyse and map process flows, domain models, system data flows and associated life cycle events to determine and manage transition to the target state.
• Elicitation, preparation and generation of business requirements (including functional and non-functional) in the form of epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria and clearly articulate to a wide audience including developers, testers, vendors and project stakeholders.
• 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, associated requirements and agree upon and deliver solutions.
• Review and contribute to specific test scenarios and the overall Test Strategy.
• Liaise with IT solution providers (internal & external) on project progress 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.
• Being an active member of, the BA Community of Practice (CoP).

What you will bring:

• Experience with projects covering Interest Rate, Equity and/or Commodity Futures and options.
• 5+ years dedicated business analysis experience working on Agile, Lean and Waterfall projects.
• Experience working independently on Tier 1 project 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 requirements.
• Experience in business process modelling using software such as MS Visio or other enterprise endorsed platforms.
• Experience using Atlassian tool suite (JIRA and Confluence).
• Effective communication, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Can collaborate with stakeholders across seniority levels.
• Demonstrated effective problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage change within a dynamic environment.
• Be comfortable working within a matrix structure.
• Experience working with Change Management and influencing user behaviour.
• Financial markets background with knowledge gained through industry experience.

Nice to have:

• Proven ability to provide support for production incidents and end user queries.
• Business Analysis Certification, eg. IIBA CBAP.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you'll help us to live our values.

We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. 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 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.

ASX is an integrated exchange offering listings, trading, clearing, settlement, technical and information services, technology, data and other post-trade services. It acts as a market operator, clearing house and payments system facilitator. It oversees compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia's listed companies and helps to educate retail investors. ASX operates markets for a wide range of asset classes including equities, fixed income, commodities and energy. As an integrated exchange, ASX's activities span primary and secondary market services, including the raising, allocation and hedging of capital flows; trading and price discovery; central counterparty risk transfer; and securities settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets.

When you join ASX, you'll be joining a dynamic global leader with a record of innovation and a reputation for integrity, transparency and professionalism. You'll also enjoy an impressive range of employee benefits and a flexible working environment underpinned by a friendly and collaborative culture.