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OFX

Business Analyst (Digital Channels)

Sydney, Australia

Hello. Nice to meet you. We're OFX, a global provider of online, international payment services for our personal, business and partner customers. Since launching on Sydney's Northern Beaches twenty years ago, OFX has grown to become a truly global company. We're now trusted by customers all around the world and have grown to over 400 employees with offices in Sydney, London, Dublin, San Francisco, Toronto, Auckland, Singapore and Hong Kong. We are a publicly listed company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX: 'OFX')

The Business Analyst position is a key role that is responsible for applying analytical solutions to problems and existing processes with the aim to increase effectiveness through technology solutions. This role plays an integral part in bridging the gap between Technology, Product and the Business using data analytics to assess processes and determine requirements that will allow Technology delivery teams to effectively meet business needs. An ability to produce documentation (in a timely manner) that supports either product or project teams to achieve outcomes, using different delivery methodologies is an important part of the role.

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The initial focus will be working with our Digital Channels team focusing on upgrading our Identity and Access Management solution and capabilities. The selected candidate will be providing business and technical expertise and practical solution delivery experience to ensure that the team they are working with consistently delivers quality software that meets user product requirements and acceptance criteria. The role will support dependency management and help to remove impediments that are preventing the team from accomplishing its goals.

This role is within a fast-moving team and will involve working with some ambiguity to achieve objectives, so you must be comfortable with that. As such there will be an expectation to take initiative and display strong communication and time-management skills to facilitate meetings that ensure teams and stakeholders are aligned on the outcomes.

What you'll be doing:

  • Lead the E2E analysis activities across this group, including supporting transformation work that is taking place within this area
  • Requirements gathering and analysis using Agile techniques, facilitating workshops and training sessions
  • Collaborating with key stakeholders and team to find the right solutions to solve and deliver on business needs
  • Conduct gap analysis and work with technical leads/architects to identify where existing solutions do not meet the business requirements. Ensure this is clearly documented.Model the data requirements or work with the appropriate teams to ensure that the data will support the new solution
  • Assisting the Product Owner with building and maintaining the backlog, ensuring all requirements and user stories align to product strategy
  • Translating requirements into high quality user stories, including personas and acceptance criteria, ensuring the stories can be tested both functionally and non-functionally
  • Maintain consistent and constant communication with stakeholders, in alignment with the PM or PO
  • Understanding the customer onboarding and Identity and Access Management
  • Help define and articulate the business problem and product vision where required. Ensuring collaborative decisions provide the targeted outcome for the customer, the business, the product and the teams' goals
  • Work closely with the development team to ensure the right priorities and changes are delivered within the agreed timeframe
  • Supporting the scrum team members in project activities when necessary, demonstrating flexibility to roll up your sleeves and get involved in different aspects of the project delivery

What you'll bring:

Qualifications
  • Relevant University or Business Analysis qualification/experience

Knowledge, skills, experience
  • Demonstrated previous experience in a Business Analysis Role
  • Ability to understand Microservice/API and application/system architecture
  • Previous experience working on a Identify/Access Management solution or customer security ((2FA/MFA) project highly regarded, but not a must
  • Ability to interpret third party technical specifications
  • Basic knowledge of SQL and ability to write basic sql queries a nice to have
  • Experience working in B2B or B2C transactional digital products and projects
  • Experience in Financial or payment services company preferred
  • Experience working in digital area & in client/consumer facing products and projects
  • Commercial awareness, problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Communication and interpersonal skills, including excellent written and verbal communication
  • An interest in, and understanding of, project delivery techniques (Agile, project management etc.) and computing systems
  • Being detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy
  • Proven ability to drive technology teams to deliver results
  • Demonstrated experience working on Scrum and/or Kanban based products
  • Knowledge of and significant experience working with Jira and Confluence is required

What it's like working at OFX


We'reOFXers because we want to make a difference.We see challenges as opportunities and we're not afraid to roll up our sleeves to get stuff done.We're committed to making things easier for our clients,pushing boundaries and continuing to move with the timesso that we can continue to inspire confidence every day and through every transaction.

We operate asone team, cross-functionally and globallyto drive outcomes that deliver excellence for our customers.We're curious self-starters who love learning and sharing our knowledge with others.We embrace change and use ourinitiative and resilience to overcome challenges.
  • Always keep learning.We offer LinkedIn learning programs,which all OFXers have access to. We offer a variety of other learning programs and host an annual Open Day to encourage cross functional and soft skill learning
  • Giving back, we encourage OFXers to give back to causes and communities that are important to them.We celebrate this with anannual volunteer day, that OFXers can use together or individually
  • We promote an environment ofreward and recognition,OFXers are encouraged to celebrate their peers' effort, technical expertise or support through a range of channels and awards
  • Our Good Vibes employee-led committees organize events to keep our employees engaged inside and outside the office. Whether it's participating in our weekly yoga class (now also on Zoom), office happy hours, end of year celebrations. Our team wants you to feel welcome!

    OFX is continuing to hire with interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19.We welcome conversations aroundflexible working arrangements for this role.Pleaseindicate in the application questions what working arrangements would be your preference.
Job ID: ofz-740
Employment Type: Other

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