Senior Manager, Business Analyst – Business Financing

For almost 70 years, Export Finance Australia has helped Australian businesses grow and succeed internationally with finance to secure opportunities, expand into new markets and diversify their presence. We support critical minerals and defence sectors, finance projects that strengthen economic resilience and advance net zero, and back Australian investment in sustainable infrastructure. 

Working with banks, other Government agencies and international partners, we back Australia’s exporters, supply chain businesses and industries, contributing to a more stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific while advancing Australia’s trade, investment and economic security objectives.  

The primary purpose of the Senior Manager, Business Analyst role is to drive the development and enhancement of our key business platforms, collaborating closely with our development team and business stakeholders. You will play a key role in gathering and analysing business requirements, translating them into functional user stories, and ensuring the successful delivery of technical and business solutions that align with our strategic objectives.

Your new role

Location: Sydney
Role Type: Full-time 12mth FTC

About you

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand and document functional requirements related to platform enhancements and customisations.
• Collaborate closely with the Business Solutions delivery squad to ensure solutions are effectively defined, validated, and successfully adopted across the organisation.
• Conduct thorough analysis of current business processes and workflows to identify opportunities for improvement and automation.
• Maintain feature documentation and supporting artefacts within the team knowledge repository.
• Develop clear and structured business specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria to support effective solution design and delivery.
• Partner with technical business analysts, developers, and solution architects to support the design, configuration, and implementation of solutions that align with business objectives.
• Contribute to solution validation by supporting testing activities, including defining test scenarios and ensuring outcomes align with documented business requirements.
• Provide ongoing support to end users on platform functionality and best practices.
• Continuously monitor and assess platform performance, identifying areas for optimisation and enhancement.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Admin, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years relevant experience
• Experience with one or more project manager methodologies and tools such as Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Business or Corporate banking/finance experience.
• Knowledge or experience of business lending processes, including loan origination or credit approval workflows.
• Experience working with IT delivery teams and Agile frameworks.
• Familiarity with the Salesforce platform, configuration, Administration and ecosystem. 
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
• Solid understanding of CRM principles and practices.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate project requirements, scope, and constraints, and identify potential areas of improvement or optimisation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, analysts, testers, and stakeholders, to ensure that project requirements are met, and project outcomes are achieved.
• Ability to deliver complex business analysis projects, with a focus on improving efficiency and driving business growth
• nCino knowledge an advantage

Even if you haven’t ticked every box but this role resonates with you, don't rule yourself out just yet, we'd love to hear from you!

Our benefits and culture

We are small enough to have an impact, BIG enough to make a world of difference and it starts with our people.

We support flexible working and pride ourselves in fostering a culture that is inclusive, diverse and collaborative. We are proud to be certified as a 2025 Great Place to Work for a fifth consecutive year, recognised on the 2023 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list and listed as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces for Women in 2025. 

In line with our commitment to our people, we have a comprehensive array of benefits available to our employees:

• Generous leave provisions (e.g. Annual Wellbeing day) and leave purchase opportunities
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• Thorough induction onboarding program
• Fitness Passport along with other Health & Wellbeing initiatives
• Gender affirmation leave
• Income Protection Insurance
• Community volunteering
• and many more!

Our headquarters is based in Sydney CBD, and we have a national presence across Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Eligibility

Australian Citizenship - To be eligible to apply for this position, applicants must hold Australian Citizenship at the time of application.

Security Clearance - To be eligible to apply for this position, applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance.

How to apply

Applications close: 26 April 2026.  

Interviews will occur in parallel, so please apply ASAP.
Enquiries: Careers@exportfinance.gov.au      
  
To apply, please email your CV to Careers@exportfinance.gov.au      

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We invite and welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds, people with disability and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. 

If you are a candidate with a disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

About us

Export Finance Australia is Australia’s export credit agency.  

We provide finance to support Australian export trade and overseas infrastructure development across the Pacific and Indo-Pacific. Through our loans, bonds and guarantees, we support businesses – from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to large corporates – foreign governments and infrastructure projects, to take on the world. 

Working with banks, other government agencies and our partners, together we are helping drive international success for Australian businesses.

The reason our people join us, stay with us and grow with us is because they wholeheartedly believe in our purpose. They can see the impact we create for our customers.

We are a highly purpose-driven organisation. We seek to create an inclusive culture that values our customers and employees. Our people are expected to champion this and play a key role in achieving those outcomes. In working towards our strategy, our people display our IMPACT leadership behaviours of Frank & Fearless, Dexterous & Agile and Careful & Diligent

For more information about us, please refer to our website. 

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered on this occasion.