Position overview

• 2-Year Maximum-Term, Full-Time opportunity
• True hybrid working - work from home and our Mitcham office
• $165,568 Total Remuneration Package (inclusive of 12% superannuation)

About us
We're on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We're one of Australia's largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria's population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.

Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you'll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.

We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners/Custodians in water and land management.

The role
This role is responsible for leading business analysis for the Finance Transformation Project-a major initiative to modernise Yarra Valley Water's financial management systems. The position will ensure alignment between business needs, system capabilities, and compliance requirements, while driving process improvements, better data quality, and more informed decision-making. A key focus will be designing future-state processes, engaging stakeholders, and supporting a smooth transition from legacy systems to modern cloud-based platforms.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end business analysis for the Finance Transformation Project, including discovery, documentation, and redesign of "as-is" and "to-be" finance processes
• Conduct fit-gap analyses, identify process inefficiencies, and design standardised, automated solutions to support improved workflows, data integrity, and compliance.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to elicit, validate, and prioritise business requirements, ensuring alignment with strategic outcomes and user needs.
• Translate business needs into clear, testable functional requirements and user stories aligned with best practices and enterprise architecture standards.
• Participate in solution design, configuration reviews, proof-of-concepts, and design walkthroughs, ensuring end-user needs are represented.
• Develop and maintain core business analysis artefacts, including Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs), process maps, data/interface specifications, and test documentation.
• Contribute to testing and readiness activities, including UAT planning, test execution, training support, and knowledge transfer to enable successful change adoption.
• Monitor risks, dependencies, and change impacts, ensuring alignment with EPMO governance and reporting requirements.
• Support change management efforts, including training, communication, and embedding of new processes and systems.

What we're looking for

• Mandatory: Demonstrated experience as a Business Analyst in Finance or ERP implementation projects.
• Solid understanding of core finance and accounting functions, including GL, AP, AR, Billing, Treasury, and Reporting.
• Hands-on experience with Agile and SDLC methodologies, including relevant tools and techniques.
• Highly proficient in Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Skilled in using process modelling tools
• Working knowledge and application of the BABOK framework in business analysis activities.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Strong track record in stakeholder management across diverse business and technical groups.
• Experience in public sector, utilities, or regulated environments is desirable.

To view the full position description, click HERE.

Why Yarra Valley Water?
We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow - both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.

• $165,568 Total Remuneration Package per annum (inclusive of 12% superannuation)
• Flexible working arrangements where our people are empowered to design their days with their team. Read our hybrid playbook HERE.
• Free and secure on-site parking with on-site café at our Mitcham office
• 14 weeks paid leave parental leave
• 15 days paid personal leave, which can be used for caring, wellbeing, mental health, menstrual or menopause
• Request to swap certain public holidays for another day of paid leave

To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE.

Did you know?
Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

How to apply
Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume.
Closing date: Wednesday, 5th November 2025
This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.

We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds. If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please call 03 9872 2542 or email [email protected]. If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email [email protected].

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.