Business Analyst

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.

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst for an 18 Month Max Term Contract. As a Business Analyst, you’ll support project and product delivery within the ANZ Programme working closely with stakeholders across the business, external vendors, and partners. You’ll play a key role in scoping requirements, documenting solutions, and collaborating with agile development teams to deliver impactful changes.

This hands on role involves both technical and operational analysis across a range of initiatives, from launching new products to enhancing business processes to improve operational efficiency. You will be a motivated self starter capable of working independently to identify opportunities, solve problems, and deliver insights with minimal direction.

Why you'll like working here

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

Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as enjoying 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. 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?

Collaborate with Product Owners, Project Managers, developers, and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements

Conduct interviews, workflow and process analysis to elicit and document clear, concise business and functional requirements

Create and help manage a backlog of epics and user stories, including detailed acceptance criteria to guide development and testing

Produce mock-ups and partner with development teams to design effective, achievable solutions

Coordinate and support user acceptance testing across all CMC offices

Maintain up to date documentation and communicate changes to stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle

Present demos and contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives within the Product team and broader organisation

Lead and/or support all phases of the project lifecycle, from discovery and requirements gathering through to delivery and post implementation review

What will help you be successful?

5+ years experience as a Business Analyst ideally within financial services

Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills

Knowledge of agile development methodologies

BA tools and techniques e.g. Jira, Confluence, process modelling, wireframing, data analysis, Visio/Miro

Technical knowledge e.g. API documentation, SQL, data management, web and mobile apps

Experience delivering operational efficiency projects for customer service functions

Experience implementing new Wealth Management product offerings

Strong facilitation and relationship management skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Experience working in financial services, banking, wealth management, payments, fintech or another regulated environment is highly desirable.

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

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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Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Contract

Industries: Financial Services