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Strategic project role specialising in providing business analyst functions for SAP implementations including:• Provide specialist subject matter advice on finance changes including, accounting impacts, integration requirements and reporting;• act as liaison between IT and the business;• enable delivery of IT/Business initiatives;• drive increased capability and value through superior customer experience internally and externally; • assess and monitor impacts of implemented and proposed IT solutions on the business;• identify and capture business projects to accurately feed IT portfolio demand; and• conduct projects using API project methodology.

Business facing role specialising in providing application, operational support and business analyst functions for financial systems including:• Identifying improvements in existing financial systems;• act as the key business contact for all financial systems queries and requests for enhancements; • analyse and document ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ business processes;• identify and implement improved business processes;• analyse and document new functional requirements including specifying solutions and assisting with testing, piloting, and implementation;• in conjunction with the business specify and plan implementation of reporting.

Business facing role specialising in providing application and operation support of planning systems including:• analyse and document new functional requirements including specifying solutions and assisting with testing, piloting and implementation;• analyse and document ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ business processes;• in conjunction with Business Intelligence team specify and plan implementation of reporting;• identify strategic opportunities for adoption of leading practices including identifying leading technologies;• manage application system life-cycle;• manage customisation and intrusive changes to ensure functionality and long-term cost effectiveness is maintained; and• work closely with external consultants for application implementation, integration and development.

Airport West, Melbourne

Business facing role specialising in providing application support of financial systems including;• assist in management of the application life-cycle delivering efficient and effective operational and functional support to the business;• investigate data integrity issues, and identify base and custom defects and implement corrective actions;• assist in planning updates, upgrades and conversions to maintain application life-cycle management;• assist in the management of customisations and changes to ensure functionality and long-term cost effectiveness is maintained; and• assist in the identification of strategic opportunities and leading technologies to fulfil identified opportunities.

Client facing assurance role within the Financial Services division assisting with various audit requirements, including:• conducting statutory audits for a variety of entities and clients from commencement through to financial statement sign-off; • performing various regulatory audits including Australian Financial Services Licences and Australian Prudential Regulation Authority audits; • assisting in audit planning and implementation including significant risks and control assessments; • performing walkthroughs and assessing the control environment of entities; • assisting in recommending improvements to client procedures and processes; • providing ad-hoc support for audit teams including administrative tasks; and• organise workload allocation to external project support team and junior staff members.

Master’S Degree, Masters Of Business Information Technology (Mbit)

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance

Vce