Senior Business Analyst - Exchange Traded Derivatives
Asx · Sydney, Australia · hybrid
ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets
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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 role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support the analysis, design and delivery of complex financial markets business and technology initiatives across ASX.
In this role, you will work closely with business stakeholders, project teams and subject matter experts to understand business needs, analyse current and future-state processes, and translate requirements into clear, practical solutions. You will bring a strong end-to-end perspective, helping teams identify opportunities, manage delivery risks and produce high-quality business analysis artefacts.
This is an opportunity to contribute across the full project lifecycle, from early-stage discovery and requirements definition through to implementation, transition and embedment into business-as-usual operations.
What you’ll be doing
- Work with stakeholders to conduct detailed gap analysis across current and future-state processes, supporting effective project planning and delivery.
- Partner with Project and Program Owners and subject matter experts to elicit, analyse, prioritise and gain approval for business requirements.
- Define strategic, interim and tactical business process changes.
- Analyse and map business processes, systems, data flows and associated lifecycle events.
- Develop clear functional and non-functional requirements, including epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Communicate requirements effectively to a broad audience, including developers, testers, vendors and project stakeholders.
- Apply user-focused modelling techniques to represent business requirements and customer needs.
- Identify project dependencies, constraints and related requirements, working with internal teams to agree appropriate solutions.
- Contribute to test scenarios and the overall testing strategy.
- Work with internal and external technology partners to support project delivery and resolve issues.
- Support cross-functional project activities, including daily stand-ups, retrospectives and backlog refinement sessions.
- Work with Release Management to support smooth implementation and transition into business-as-usual operations.
- Contribute to change management activities and develop training materials that help impacted stakeholders adopt new processes and solutions.
- Review business analysis artefacts to ensure quality and alignment with established frameworks.
- Produce high-quality analysis deliverables using appropriate tools and techniques.
About you
You are an experienced Business Analyst who is comfortable operating in complex and changing environments. You can work independently, manage competing priorities and build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- A strong domain knowledge of asset classes and market services, including equities, futures and options, including the full trading lifecycle.
- At least five years of dedicated business analysis experience across Agile, Lean and Waterfall delivery environments.
- Experience working independently on large, complex projects across the full systems development lifecycle, from early ideation through to execution and operational embedment.
- A strong understanding of business analysis principles, methods and practices.
- Demonstrated experience gathering stakeholder needs and translating them into detailed, clearly documented requirements.
- Experience developing business process models using Microsoft Visio or another enterprise-endorsed modelling platform.
- Experience using the Atlassian suite, particularly Jira and Confluence.
- Strong communication, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills.
- The ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across different functions and levels of seniority.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage change in a dynamic working environment.
- Confidence working within a matrix organisational structure.
- Experience supporting change management activities and influencing user behaviour.
Skills and capabilitiesYou will demonstrate capability across:
- Business situation analysis
- Requirements definition and management
- Business and process modelling
- Business process improvement
- Risk identification and management
- Stakeholder relationship management
- User experience analysis
- Requirements prioritisation and baseline management
- Complex problem-solving and decision-making
- Change and implementation support
Desirable experienceThe following experience would be beneficial:
- Supporting production incidents and responding to end-user queries.
- A recognised business analysis qualification, such as IIBA CBAP.
- Additional financial services or capital markets industry experience.
We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role.
If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at careers@asx.com.au.
At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. 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.