Do work that makes a difference!
Contribute to nationally significant projects supporting Australia’s real‑time payments systems
Develop your career in a collaborative, high‑performing environment
Access extensive staff benefits, including on‑site gym facilities, fitness classes and canteen
About the Role/Team
The Payments Settlements (PS) department is seeking a data-oriented Lead Business Analyst to uplift, modernise and maintain the data warehouse supporting critical payments systems—including the Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System (RITS), the Fast Settlement Service (FSS), and SWIFT interbank payment systems.
You will be a key member of the Business Delivery section and will work as an important bridge between business and technology, ensuring requirements are clearly defined and aligned for the successful delivery of the projects that support/ enhance the Australian payments system. This role will initially sit with the FSS Next Program, a major 3–5‑year transformation initiative that will enhance real‑time, 24/7 settlement capabilities for the New Payments Platform (NPP), which processes an average of 3.5 million payments per day, worth $4 billion. In this program, you will evaluate various data platform options, contribute to business case development, and help deliver a new technology solution capable of managing large‑scale transactional datasets.
What you will do
Engage with business owners, SMEs and technical teams to elicit, interpret and document business requirements
Identify and map data assets & data products, end-to-end processes, data lineage, ownership and map business workflows to data flows.
Facilitate structured workshops for discovery, ideation and requirements gathering for the new data platform.
Collaborate with data analysts, architects, developers and design teams to convert business needs into functional specifications for scalable data warehouse and technology solutions.
Support data modelling and data preparation for downstream analytics
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including user stories for Agile delivery.
Prepare and present high-quality decision support materials, including options and trade-off analysis, to senior leadership and executive stakeholders
Identify risks, interdependencies, and cross-functional impacts across business and technology domains
Manage requirement changes using structured change‑control processes and maintain traceability.
Contribute to change‑management planning and execution.
Contribute to the enhancement of business analysis practice, tools, and templates, and mentor junior analysts.
Your background
To be successful in this critical role you will possess:
Advanced knowledge of business analysis methods, elicitation techniques and documentation standards
Strong proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps or similar tools
Experience in data platforms, data‑transformation or modernisation programs
Solid understanding of data assets, data products, data lineage and transformation techniques
Experience with structured and semi‑structured datasets and data engineering delivery practices
Strong process mapping and workflow design skills
Deep knowledge of data warehouse architecture, ETL processes and data modelling
A “technical BA” mindset, comfortable working with database schemas and ERDs
Strong SQL skills for data analysis, data mapping, extraction and profiling
Excellent analytical, multi-tasking, organizational and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated experience as a Business Analyst in data-centric environments or projects, with a strong focus on data warehousing, analytics, and/or enterprise transformation initiatives
A professional certification in business analysis such as IIBA CBAP would be highly regarded.
Be More
Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
Why RBA?
The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.
Application Close :
April 01, 2026.