Business Analyst - Macquarie Equipment Finance, Sydney

Job Title:    Business Analyst - Macquarie Equipment Finance
Job Ref.:    CAF-917500
Group:        Macquarie Corp & Asset Finance
Location:    Sydney
Employer:     Macquarie Group
Job Type:    Full time
Recruiter:    Sarah Kearns
About Us
Macquarie Corporate and Asset Finance (CAF) provides innovative and traditional capital, finance and related services to clients operating in selected international markets. With offices in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, North America and Europe, Corporate and Asset Finance specialises in:

•    Leasing and asset finance
•    Tailored debt and finance solutions
•    Asset remarketing, sourcing and trading


Macquarie Equipment Finance (MEF) is a leading global provider of customized financing and asset management solutions for enterprises, technology manufacturers and suppliers worldwide.

With capabilities on four continents, MEF supports the needs of major multinational organizations through small and midsize businesses.

Our history is one of our strengths. Macquarie has over 20 years of specialized experience in providing structured equipment finance solutions to corporate, government, and university customers.

Through a wholly-owned business arm, Macquarie Technology Services (MTS), Macquarie also offers comprehensive IT related services providing efficiencies across the entire IT infrastructure from procurement and deployment through mid-term asset management to end-of-equipment life/refresh.

Job Description:
Macquarie Equipment Finance ("MEF") is a global technology finance and leasing specialist.  MEF has in excess of 300 staff engaged in active leasing and asset finance activities in various locations through Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America.

MEF is seeking to employ a bright and enthusiastic Business Analyst to become part of a team responsible for working on a program of initiatives across a challenging project roadmap much of it system based. The business utilises a number of systems with its predominant leasing system being Oracle.

This role could involve working across various initiatives at any one time, including functional and technical projects to deliver the Oracle platform and other business systems to new businesses or new locations, data conversion, application and database upgrades, and interfaces to other systems.

Job Requirements:

•    previous BA or system implementation experience
•    exposure to working with various Project Management methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile
•    exposure to the Oracle e-business suite, in particular Lease Management
•    exposure to other financial systems
•    tertiary qualifications in a business or IT related field

Applicants for this role will:

•    be able to use their own initiative
•    possess a sense of urgency
•    be willing and able to take responsibility and ownership
•    have the ability to establish good working relationships with both the business and technical teams
•    have the ability to prioritise competing demands
•    have an adaptive and flexible approach to work
•    be available to travel for project work, if required

Job Duties:

•    Gathering and documenting business requirements
•    Facilitating workshops with the business
•    Analysis and documentation of gaps
•    Development of functional specifications
•    Designing and modelling business processes
•    Preparing and performing functional and regression testing
•    Demonstrating newly developed functionality to the business
•    Liaising closely with business users, the development team and the testing team
•    System configuration of the Oracle e-business suite

Gaining a high level of technical understanding of the system will be integral to success in this role, as will be an understanding of the actual leasing businesses and their processes.

Deadline: 08-03-2014

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