Senior Business Analyst

• Large-scale Finance transformation program of work
• Fast paced complex work in a supportive and collaborative working environment
• Flexible Work Hours | Hybrid Model

Why join us?

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst with proven experience in medium to large-scale Finance transformation programs. The selected candidate will join a project team to collaborate with business stakeholders in Finance and Actuarial areas, gathering requirements, analysing the current state, designing target state processes, conducting data analysis, and acting as a liaison among business, project, system implementation, and IT teams, both internal and external.

This is a 12-month fixed term contract, working flexibly from our Sydney office.

In this role you will: 

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate business requirements for the transformation project, conduct a thorough analysis of existing business processes, and identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation
• Maintain comprehensive documentation throughout the project lifecycle. Establish traceability from requirements to solution design and to test cases
• Facilitate communication and understanding between technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Support test teams to ensure test plans, scenarios, cases adhere to requirements and collaborate with quality assurance teams to support issue resolution.
• Lead the analysis and mapping of data from legacy systems to the new ERP SaaS solution

• Demonstrated experience in business analysis on medium to large-scale transformation programs
• Experience in Finance ERP, general ledger, and actuarial system projects
• Ability to engage stakeholders at various levels in the organisation, build rapport quickly and develop long-term relationships
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, respond to short deadlines, and effectively manage multiple priorities
• Tertiary degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field, preferred

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be: 

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index 
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change 
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community. 
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.  

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks. 

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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