Business Analyst

Apex Group Ltd

Business Analyst at Apex Group, working on business and technical solutions for client and internal initiatives. Focused on gathering requirements and ensuring successful implementation.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeAuckland • 🇳🇿 New ZealandMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureSQLVBA

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with clients to understand business needs and manage expectations.
Elicit and document business and functional requirements through structured workshops, stakeholder interviews, and analysis.
Produce clear, fit-for-purpose documentation including, business requirements, test plans, impact assessments, and incident reporting.
Define and map data exchange structures (e.g., flat files, specifications).
Collaborate with technical teams to support setup and integration of data and platform interfaces
Triage and manage client requests in alignment with the Apex client service desk SLA framework
Design and lead testing activities including defect management and sign-off.
Prepare transition and training documentation to support operational readiness.
Work with business and delivery teams to validate scope, manage changes, and ensure traceability.
Support go-live planning, hypercare phases and post-implementation activities.
Contribute to environment configuration for testing, UAT and production readiness.
Coordinate end-to-end fund launches, including platform configuration, testing, and operational handover.
Provide estimation and input into Statements of Work (SoWs), defining scope, and effort, ensuring commercial alignment with clients.
Align solutions with platform capabilities and support a single-source-of-truth architecture.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3–5+ years experience as a Business Analyst in financial services or fund administration.
Strong client engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills.
Proven ability to produce high-quality business requirements and process documentation.
Familiarity with industry frameworks and methodologies including IIBA business analysis standards and agile delivery approaches such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban
Experience with Azure DevOps or similar work tracking tools.
Previous involvement in platform transitions or transformation programmes.
Experience working across multiple delivery teams in fast-paced, regulated environments.
Knowledge of fund administration platforms, operational integration, and single-source data models.
Understand SQL and VBA concepts with the ability to develop and run basic queries to extract data
Proficient in creating business process maps and workflow diagrams using standard modelling techniques (eg. BPMN) and tools such as Lucidchart or Microsoft Visio
Strong understanding of data exchange protocols (e.g., SFTP, CSV) and flat file structures.
Experience in test planning, test execution and defect management to ensure solution quality and validation against business requirements
Experience in agile and hybrid delivery environments.
Ability to translate technical concepts into clear business language.
Understanding of API-driven architecture, testing, and validation.
Ability to manage workload independently while contributing to team initiatives.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel essential).

Benefits

Comp & perks

A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business;
Competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience;
Training and development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

business analysisSQLVBAtest planningdefect managementbusiness process mappingworkflow diagramsdata exchange protocolsAPI-driven architectureagile delivery

Soft Skills

client engagementcommunicationstakeholder managementindependent workload managementcollaborationdocumentationchange managementproblem-solvingattention to detailtraining preparation

Certifications

IIBA business analysis standards