Senior Business Analyst - 18 Month Maximum Term Contract

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering.

If you are a Senior Business Analyst who thrives at the intersection of complex financial systems and meaningful digital change, this role puts you right at the centre of the action. CMC Markets is one of the world's leading online trading and investment platforms, and right now we are enhancing our capabilities across Australia and New Zealand. Your work will shape the products that hundreds of thousands of investors rely on every day.

You will work across high-profile Group and ANZ strategic programmes, giving you rare visibility into how enterprise-scale decisions are made and delivered. Senior stakeholders will look to you to translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable requirements and you will see those requirements come to life in production. The breadth of exposure here is real: digital experience design, data migration, agile delivery, and cross-border alignment with our global teams.

Why You'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.
• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing
• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.
• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on

This is a hands-on senior role with real breadth. Day to day, you will:

• Lead workshops and stakeholder interviews to gather and validate requirements, producing user journey maps and high-quality documentation across both business and technical domains
• Align with Group counterparts in other markets to maintain consistent global standards and share learnings across programmes
• Break complex epics into well-formed user stories and acceptance criteria, and collaborate with UX/UI designers on wireframes and digital experience design
• Analyse current-state and future-state processes to surface gaps, recommend improvements, and contribute to new software features and system design
• Support QA, knowledge transfer, and end-user documentation to ensure smooth handover from delivery into BAU
• Contribute to project planning, risk and issue management, and programme-level reporting

What will help you be successful?

You are a confident, delivery-focused senior BA who is comfortable owning the requirements lifecycle end to end. You translate ambiguity into clarity, and you bring people along with you. Specifically, you will bring:

• 8+ years of Business Analyst experience
• Wealth management experience is essential
• A strong track record in financial services, you understand the compliance, operational, and customer dynamics of the sector
• The ability to distil complex information and present it clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike
• Proven experience in agile delivery teams, writing user stories that developers can act on without ambiguity
• Hands-on familiarity with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Miro, and Figma
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to facilitate cross-functional workshops
• Experience setting BA standards and supporting team members, you raise the bar for everyone around you
• Data analysis, mapping, or data migration experience is a distinct advantage

You must have full working rights in Australia.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. 

 We look forward to hearing from you! 

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