Business Analyst

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential, then you’ll love contributing to CMC Markets’ company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company that’s growing with you, by global expansion and product offering.

This Business Analyst role offers genuine variety, you'll tackle technical challenges one day and dive into operational improvements the next. You'll collaborate with agile development teams, external vendors, and stakeholders across the business, building relationships that will accelerate your career in financial technology. You'll see your work make a tangible difference in how people invest, trade, and build their financial independence.

Why You'll like working here

Just some of the reasons you’ll love working here include:

• Continuous learning: Our generous L&D program covers both technical, performance and leadership training, ensuring you're always learning new skills.

• Leave benefits: Accrue 5 additional annual leave entitlements each year called My Days, as well as gaining an 5 extra annual leave days once you pass 12 months. Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends, on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.

• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts, and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing

• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together, that’s why we’ve made the decision to work five days in the office.

• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!

• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether you’re into fitness, pizza making classes, socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What you’ll be working on

You'll drive requirements gathering and solution design across diverse initiatives that keep CMC Markets at the forefront of financial technology. Your analytical skills will be essential in translating complex business needs into clear, actionable requirements that development teams can implement effectively.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work directly with Product Owners, Project Managers, and developers to understand business challenges and design solutions that deliver real value

• Requirements Excellence: Conduct stakeholder interviews and process analysis to create comprehensive business and functional requirements that guide successful project outcomes

• Agile Leadership: Build and manage backlogs of epics and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, ensuring development teams have clear direction

• Solution Design: Create mockups and partner with technical teams to design solutions that are both effective and achievable within project constraints

• Quality Assurance: Coordinate user acceptance testing across all CMC offices, ensuring solutions meet business needs before launch

• Communication: Maintain up-to-date documentation and present demos that keep stakeholders informed and engaged throughout project lifecycles

• Continuous Improvement: Lead knowledge-sharing initiatives and contribute to best practices that elevate the entire team's performance

What will help you be successful?

We're looking for an analytical thinker who thrives on solving complex business problems and has the communication skills to bring stakeholders together around common solutions.

• 3+ years of Business Analyst experience, ideally within financial services, banking, or stockbroking environments where you've managed complex requirements

• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management abilities you can lead meetings, manage competing priorities, and build consensus among diverse groups

• Agile methodology expertise with hands on experience in Scrum or Kanban environments

• Technical toolkit proficiency including Jira, Confluence, process modelling, wireframing, data analysis, and visualisation tools like Visio or Miro

• Bonus technical knowledge in API documentation, SQL, or web/mobile application development will help you excel in our technology-focused environment

You must have full working rights in Australia.

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work. We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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We’re always on the lookout for great people, so even if you don’t feel you are a 100% fit, apply with your up-to-date CV and we’ll consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business. 

 We look forward to hearing from you! 

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