At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead business analysis for ACU's ERP transformation, focusing on HR, Payroll, and Finance.
- Company: Join ACU, a leading Catholic university with a mission to shape future generations.
- Benefits: Flexible work arrangements, generous leave, and a supportive culture.
- Other info: Opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic and inclusive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a transformative role at a top-ranked university.
- Qualifications: Experience as a Business Analyst in complex organisations, preferably with ERP knowledge.
The predicted salary is between 90000 - 110000 $ per year.
We’re excited to share that Charterhouse has been selected as ACU’s recruitment partner for a handful of critical hires on their Workday ERP Transformation. This is one of them, and we’d love to hear from you if it sounds like your kind of challenge. The right candidate can be based in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane.
About ACU
ACU has a bold vision for its future. Vision 2033 sets out its mission as a Catholic university to be a “Christian presence in the university world,” helping shape the coming generations in Australia and beyond by enabling flourishing lives, fostering thriving communities and building a more ethical future.
About the role
This role provides specialised business analysis and process design expertise for ACU’s enterprise-wide ERP Program across HR, Payroll, Finance and Time & Attendance. You’ll lead the analysis of business requirements, operating model impacts and future-state processes to support successful implementation of Workday-aligned solutions and business transformation outcomes.
What you’ll do:
- Elicit, analyse, validate and document business, functional and non-functional requirements, with clear traceability from business need through to delivery.
- Map current-state processes and work with stakeholders and implementation partners to design and validate standardised future-state processes aligned with Workday.
- Assess business, process, policy, governance, data and service impacts, and give evidence-based recommendations.
- Provide business analysis expertise through solution design, making sure configurations align with requirements and agreed outcomes.
- Define and validate requirements for data migration, integrations, reporting, workflow and security roles, and support mapping, cleansing and reconciliation.
- Develop business scenarios, test cases and expected outcomes, and support SIT, UAT, payroll parallel activities, defect triage, retesting and acceptance evidence.
- Facilitate workshops with business owners, SMEs, project teams and vendors to build agreement on requirements and future-state processes.
- Provide analysis and artefacts for change impact, communications, training, readiness, cutover, go-live and transition to operations.
- Maintain accurate, current and auditable requirements, process, decision and analysis artefacts in line with program governance and quality standards.
- Support hypercare, lessons learned, benefits measurement and sustainable process and control improvements.
About you:
- A relevant degree with substantial relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and education or training.
- Substantial experience as a Business Analyst in a large, complex organisation, preferably within an ERP or enterprise transformation program.
- Proven experience eliciting, analysing, documenting, validating and managing complex business and functional requirements.
- Proven experience mapping current and future-state processes, running gap and impact analysis, and supporting process redesign.
- Knowledge of business process design, service delivery models and one or more of HR, Payroll, Finance, Procurement, workforce management or Time & Attendance.
- Experience supporting enterprise solution design, data migration, integrations, reporting, testing and implementation in complex transformation programs.
- Highly developed analytical, facilitation, consultation and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to give clear, practical recommendations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including accurate requirements, process, testing and governance documentation.
- Workday experience is desirable.
- A demonstrated commitment to cultural diversity and ethical practice, and knowledge of equal employment opportunity and workplace health and safety.
Good to know:
This role doesn’t require a Working with Children Check. Preferred candidates will need to complete mandatory pre-employment declarations and background checks, including those related to gender-based violence and foreign interference, in line with ACU’s compliance requirements.
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