- Employment Type: Full-Time (35 hours p/week)
- Duration: Continuing
- Remuneration: Level 9: $148,012 - $157,055 + 17% Super + Leave Loading
- Location: UNSW Kensington Campus
About UNSW:
UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community, a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.
Why Your Role Matters:
The Senior Business Analyst will be part of the Operational Finance team whose key objectives are to support UNSW with core system and transactional activities (operational and general accounting), and work towards standardised processes with continual improvements in systems and process to support UNSW financial integrity and strategy. This role provides an opportunity for you to actively contribute to the future proofing of our service management and enterprise resource planning technology.
In this role you will contribute to driving the advancement of core financial processes (procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, record-to-report) and systems and their integration to improve operations, customer experience and quality of deliverables. The focus of this role is to work closely with key stakeholders, process SMEs and project teams to evaluate end-to-end financial processes, understand business requirements and process variations in order to streamline and implement standardized processes and automated solutions.
This role reports to the Associate Director, Operations & Continuous Improvement and has no direct reports.
Responsibilities Include:
- Perform a lead role in driving process improvements, investigating, analysing, and documenting financial processes and potential solutions that contribute to ongoing process standardisation, unification, and optimisation.
- Facilitate and participate in project meetings to assist with process, system and tools selection and ensure end-to-end processes and impact on key stakeholders are understood and appropriately communicated in any process change.
- Analyse and document finance business processes to identify issues and improvement opportunities, using process mapping tools and methodologies.
- Develop process flow diagrams and business cases to support streamlined, standardised, and well-controlled financial operations.
- Develop strong and effective working relationships with business users to identify requirements, providing innovative analytical recommendations and strategic solutions.
- Develop and lead the facilitation of workshops, displaying sound accounting knowledge to identify key financial control points and providing process mapping expertise and analysis, to assess business process redesign.
- Lead the development, training and support in the application of tools and templates for the Continuous Improvement Framework.
- Proactively identify and manage complex risks, issues, and financials, ensuring appropriate solutions are in place.
- Oversee effective communications with key stakeholders, both internal and external, and provide influential input with stakeholders to achieve desired business outcomes.
- Oversee the review and update of existing user process/procedure/policy documentation, or create new documentation as required.
For more information regarding the responsibilities for this role, please refer to the Position Description at JOBS@UNSW.
Skills and Experience Summary:
- CA/CPA qualification, or a relevant accounting degree with 7+ years finance experience in large, complex organisations.
- Proven experience contributing to a major ERP transformation program with a focus on finance process design and optimisation (not in a technical/IT capacity).
- Strong background in business process analysis, design, and improvement, ideally within finance operations or shared services.
- Experience applying process improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma, BPM); certification desirable.
- Proven facilitation and workshop delivery experience with diverse stakeholder groups.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous and evolving environments.
- Sound understanding of change management principles.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a track record as a lateral thinker.
- Strong time management and organisational skills with the ability to deliver to set timeframes.
Benefits and Culture: People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world. Our benefits include:
- Career development opportunities
- 17% Superannuation contributions
- Generous leave entitlements including an additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
- Staff Discounts (retail, education, fitness and more)
- Salary sacrificing & novated leasing available
How to Apply: Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW. Submit your CV via the application portal before 11:30pm on the 19th of November.
A copy of the Position Description can be found on JOBS@UNSW.
Get in Touch: For queries regarding the recruitment process, contact Lucy Gerondis, Talent Acquisition Consultant, UNSW: l.gerondis@unsw.edu.au
Applications sent via email will not be accepted, please apply via the application portal.
UNSW is committed to evolving a culture that embraces equity and supports a diverse and inclusive community where everyone can participate fairly, in a safe and respectful environment. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage applications from people of diverse gender, sexual orientation, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, people with disability and those with caring and family responsibilities. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.
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