Job Description
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Employment Type: Full Time, Fixed Term, 2-year opportunity
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Remuneration: Competitive Total Remuneration Package
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Location: Kensington with transition to newly renovated office at our Randwick campus, anticipated for October ****
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This Job is based in Australia
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About UNSW
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At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work. We aspire to be Australia's global university, improving and transforming lives through excellence in research, outstanding education and a commitment to advancing a just society.
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About The Role
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The Lead Business Analyst leads business analysis and functional design for the Business Optimisation Strategy (BOS) program across Finance, HR, and Procurement. The role evaluates current-state processes and systems to define streamlined, fit-for-purpose future-state solutions and designs.
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By partnering with architects, stream leads, IT stakeholders, ERP vendors, and external consultants, the role ensures end-to-end solution integrity and delivery readiness. It plans BA activity, maintains high artifact quality, manages interdependencies, and provides decision support to strengthen program governance.
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Reporting to the Senior PMO Lead, the role carries no direct reports.
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Responsibilities
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Establish and execute the BA framework, including standards, modeling conventions, and quality gates across the BOS program.
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Lead discovery to analyse current-state processes, controls, data, and systems across Finance, HR, and Procurement.
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Develop future-state process designs and functional solution options aligned with BOS program objectives.
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Define and manage the BA work plan, aligning milestones, dependencies, and deliverables with the broader program roadmap.
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Maintain end-to-end requirement traceability from business objectives through to technical design, configuration, testing, and operational readiness.
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Partner with the ERP vendor and external consultants to shape, review, and validate functional designs for completeness and feasibility.
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Plan and facilitate workshops with key business and IT stakeholders to drive requirements, resolve gaps, and secure alignment.
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Identify and manage design risks and operational impacts while supporting program governance through transparent decision-making.
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About You
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Tertiary qualification in IT, Business, Commerce, or equivalent senior experience in large-scale transformation environments.
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8+ years leading business analysis and functional design across complex enterprise platforms, spanning Finance, HR, and Procurement domains.
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Expertise in process improvement and standardisation, using contemporary modelling techniques (BPMN, user stories, data models, functional specifications).
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Strong planning and delivery management skills across Waterfall and Agile/Hybrid lifecycles, including dependency management and governance alignment.
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Proven track record of managing vendor and consulting partners, ensuring quality deliverable reviews, and resolving design gaps.
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Exceptional stakeholder facilitation, communication, and influence skills, combined with a commitment to organisational values, policies, and guidelines.
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For further information on the role & responsibilities, please refer to the Position Description.
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UNSW Benefits and Culture
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Additional 3 days leave during December festive period.
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Career development opportunities
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Up to 50% discount on UNSW courses
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Flexible 17% Superannuation contributions, additional leave-loading payments and salary sacrifice.
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Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness passport)
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UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.
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Pre-Employment Checks
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Aligned with UNSW's focus on cultivating a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.
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These pre-employment checks may include a combination of some of the following checks:
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National and International Criminal history checks
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Entitlement to work and ID checks
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Working With Children Checks
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Completion of a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Declaration
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Verification of relevant qualifications
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Verification of relevant skilled membership
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Employment history and reference checks
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Financial responsibility
assessments/checks.
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Medical Checks and Assessments
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Compliance with the necessary combination of these checks is a condition of employment at UNSW.

📌 Lead Business Analyst - Program (New South Wales)
🏢 UNSW
📍 New South Wales