Senior Business Analyst - FATCA

At Hays Enterprise Solutions, our mission is to help organisations thrive by supporting their workforce needs. We partner with over thirty large organisations across Australia and New Zealand providing tailored solutions to ensure our clients have unrivalled access to top talent and unique market insights to build their evolving workforces.

About the Opportunity

As our team continues to grow, we are expanding our Delivery function and have multiple opportunities for experienced Senior Business Analysts to support strategic change and mandatory initiatives.

We are particularly interested in Senior Business Analysts with experience delivering large-scale transformation, efficiency, and process optimisation initiatives within client-facing advisory environments. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in continuous improvement, performance reporting, financial products, compliance, AML, and regulatory reform programs. Mandatory experience with FATCA and CRS regulations is required for this role.

12‑month fixed‑term contract.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to clarify requirements, prioritise initiatives, and resolve issues across multiple streams.
• Gather and document business requirements, translating them into clear, sprint-ready user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Create user stories and walkthrough these with business and technology teams.
• You will support business analysts, developers and testers in your stream through the sprint cycle to achieve sprint goals and deliver value to the stakeholders.
• Ensure effective change management of process changes when deploying change initiatives.
• Provide expert guidance, mentorship and technical knowledge to develop capabilities of business analysts, supporting growth and development.
• Play a critical role in continuously improving the Delivery framework.
• Support Project Manager with sequencing, prioritisation and estimation of effort.
• Get involved during the definition and design phases, working with technical resources to develop overall solution design.
• Work with other Business Analyst to distribute work and elaborate stories.
• Act as the day-to-day interface between development team, testers and business stakeholders during execution phase.
• Help the test team define test plans and test cases for all functionalities to be developed, covering both application and broader business process testing.
• Track test cases back to associated design and User stories.
• Support delivery through definition, design, and testing phases ensuring traceability from requirements to test cases and quality outcomes.
• Prepare stakeholder communications, deliver demos and training, and assist with business procedure documentation.
• Identify process improvements and contribute to business case or lean canvas development for future initiatives.

About You

• Minimum 5+ years as a Business Analyst or Senior Business Analyst working in Wealth Management or Financial Services Organisations or equivalent relevant experience working in Wealth Management or Financial Services Organisations.
• Proven ability to work within a team structure with an accountability to motivate others to achieve excellence.
• Experience in process mapping, user story development, and Agile frameworks.
• Resilient, methodical, and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficient in JIRA and advanced Excel skills.
• Experience undertaking regulatory or compliance projects in Financial Services environment.
• Understanding of wealth management products and services are highly desirable.
• Knowledge of SDLC and change methodologies are a plus.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified