Principal Business Analyst - SMST
Job No.: 679577
Location: Clayton
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Fixed-term appointment until December 2026
Remuneration: A competitive remuneration package will apply
- Lead the strategy to TRANSFORM how students experience Monash University
- Flexible remuneration structure - annual package including 17% super!
- Hybrid working model
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Principal Business Analyst to help drive our Student Management Systems Transformation – a flagship initiative supporting the University’s strategic goals. This isn’t just a system replacement program – it’s an opportunity to reinvent how students connect, engage, and succeed at University.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Own the transformation. Lead the business analysis activities in a cross-functional team.
- Bridge big ideas and real outcomes. Translate strategic objectives into human-centred, technology-enabled solutions that work at scale.
- Lead with purpose. Inspire a high-performing cross-functional team, championing design thinking, innovation and continuous improvement.
- Partner with influence. Work with senior leaders, capability leads, vendor and delivery teams to ensure every solution moves the needle.
Who You Are:
- A sharp analytical thinker who can cut through noise and get to action.
- Experienced in leading major IT-enabled transformations – ideally in complex environments like higher education.
- A natural communicator and influencer, fluent in the language of executives, developers, and end users alike.
- Skilled at turning ambiguity into clarity – through journey mapping, business cases, workshop facilitation, and stakeholder storytelling.
- Curious, collaborative, and always looking for the opportunity to make things better.
- Deep knowledge of student management systems or large-scale ERP platforms is highly desirable.
- Experience designing and delivering transformation in a university or public sector context will be an added bonus.
- An instinct for user-centred design, agile delivery, and service-led thinking is highly recommended.
You will be part of an institution that’s investing in the future of learning, with digital transformation at the heart of its mission. You’ll shape experiences that touch tens of thousands of lives and leave a lasting legacy.
If you’re a strategic thinker, change-maker who loves to connect dots, align people, and build the future — we want to hear from you!
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something groundbreaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Learn more about Monash.
Be part of our story. Work with us to #ChangeIt.
Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application does not need to address the Key Selection Criteria. Please send us a cover letter (max 2 pages) that addresses your suitability for the role, along with a copy of your latest resume.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Ms Lejla Hadzanovic, Program Director, Transformations. Lejla.Hadzanovic@Monash.edu.
Position Description: Principal Business Analyst - SMST
Applications Close: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 11:55pm AEST
