Senior Finance Business Analyst - SMST
Job No.: 694178
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 12 month fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: $124,343 - $137,251 pa HEW Level 08 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Capability Lead - Student Finance SMST Program, the focus of this role will be to apply high-level finance expertise and deliver complex analytical services to support the critical build of the Student Management System Transformation (SMST). Based within the forward-thinking eSolutions portfolio, you will bridge the gap between finance and technology. Your mission will be to ensure system design decisions perfectly align with Monash accounting standards, reduce manual downstream rework, and support vital financial processes like end-of-day processing, ERP ledger-to-subledger reconciliations, and financial compliance.
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate, you will be responsible for:
- Strategic Advising & Partnering: Providing strategic support, financial insights, and expert advice to senior leaders and project teams regarding ERP configurations, financial processes, and project initiatives.
- Requirement Translation: Converting current and future-state accounting requirements and policies into clear business requirements and acceptance criteria, ensuring standardized and automated financial processes across the Monash Group.
- System Testing & Validation: Validating future-state finance processes to eliminate manual effort, and supporting/executing the testing of finance-related system builds to guarantee accuracy before go-live.
- Advanced Modelling & Reporting: Conducting advanced financial modelling and developing specialized reports, recommendations, and presentations on highly complex financial issues for senior management.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining robust partnerships across business units, facilitating communication, and educating stakeholder groups on key financial policies and procedures.
About You
To excel in this role, you will bring a blend of financial acumen and technical curiosity. Specifically, we are looking for:
- Qualifications: Postgraduate qualifications (or progress towards them) coupled with extensive relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of high-level training and education.
- System Expertise: Hands-on experience working with enterprise ERP systems (such as SAP, Oracle Financials, TechnologyOne, Workday Financials) alongside a solid understanding of APIs, REST services, SQL, data structures, and system logs.
- Financial Literacy: A deep understanding of core accounting processes, reconciliation workflows, and management accounting principles (budgeting and forecasting).
- Project & People Skills: Highly-developed organizational and planning skills to manage tight deadlines, matched with exceptional consulting, relationship-building, and negotiation skills to influence a diverse range of stakeholders.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – 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.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
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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'.
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: Natalia Hawkins, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, natalia.hawkins@monash.edu
Position Description:
Applications Close: Friday 3 July 2026 at 11:55 PM AEST
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