Careers with BFS
We’re passionate about Christian ministry.
For nearly 40 years, we’ve helped ministries get the funding and support they need to build and expand their ministry operations. We offer a range of savings and term investments to help pool funds to resource Christian ministry. Loans and other assistance are made to churches and Christian organisations to support their work and activities.
Vacant positions
Would you like the opportunity to align your skills and experience with your Christian faith and be part of enabling Christian ministry to thrive?
We are providing the opportunity for a skilled and experienced Senior Business Analyst to be part of our dynamic and growing for purpose organisation that exists to enable Christian Ministry to thrive!
Your Agile mindset and strong analytical skills will add value to our current digital transformation project as will your ability to define efficient solutions, based on input from stakeholders, and map technical needs to business outcomes.
About BFS:
Baptist Financial Services Australia Ltd (BFS) is an Australian Baptist Ministry providing financial services for Baptist and evangelical churches and ministries across Australia. The Company was established in 1984 and now has total assets exceeding $500 million. BFS operates a registered charitable investment scheme regulated with an AFS Licence to provide an opportunity for the raising of funds to resource Baptist and other Christian ministries. We offer a range of savings and term investments to help pool funds to resource Christian ministry. Loans and other assistance and services are provided to churches and Christian organisations to support their work and activities.
Key Responsibilities of this role:
- Gathering, validating, and documenting business requirements through engagement with key stakeholders.
- Performing current and future state analysis through the modelling of business processes and identification of process improvements.
- Performing future state analysis on current systems and products for future enhancements to improve the user experience.
- Data migration, analysis and data visualisation across key systems and processes.
- Identifying issues, risks and benefits of existing and proposed solutions outlining business impacts.
- Informing the design of system solutions providing assurance of enhanced user experience through the design.
- Testing and implementation of solutions
- Support business transition and helping to establish change.
- Support broader organisation transformation.
- Support the delivery of a variety of projects.
Required Skills:
- A solid technical Business Analyst background preferably in banking or financial services.
- Ability to write business requirements and translate them into detailed functional requirements, process maps, acceptance criteria and specifications.
- Experience in conducting workshops for requirements gathering including working with clients, business stakeholders and technical experts.
- Experience with SQL databases and database querying languages (desirable).
- Experience with Business Intelligence and reporting software such as Power BI (desirable)
- Experience with data migrations (desirable)
- Proven effective stakeholder engagement.
- Analytical and proactive problem solver.
- Ability to work in a dynamic, high-volume environment with a high level of drive and motivation to ensure delivery of a broad range of outputs simultaneously across BFS.
- The ability to make decisions on prioritisation and viability of solutions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely and in simple language, both oral and written
- Confident in presenting to senior leaders.
To apply for this role or for a copy of the Position Description for this role please contact
the HR Manager carlys@bfs.org.au
*Please include a cover letter and a summary of your faith journey with your application.
Are you an experienced and professional Change Manager looking for a new challenge?
Do you enjoy creating and implementing change management strategies that maximise
employee & client adoption?
Would you like the opportunity to align your skills and experience with your Christian faith
and be part of enabling Christian ministry to thrive?
We are providing the opportunity for a skilled and experienced Change Manager be part of
our dynamic and growing for purpose organisation that exists to enable Christian Ministry to thrive!
About BFS:
Baptist Financial Services Australia Ltd (BFS) is an Australian Baptist Ministry providing
financial services for Baptist and evangelical churches and ministries across Australia. The
Company was established in 1984 and now has total assets exceeding $500 million. BFS
operates a registered charitable investment scheme regulated with an AFS Licence to
provide an opportunity for the raising of funds to resource Baptist and other Christian
ministries. We offer a range of savings and term investments to help pool funds to resource
Christian ministry. Loans and other assistance and services are provided to churches and
Christian organisations to support their work and activities. Our loan portfolio is
approximately $280M and growing.
The role:
This role exists to assist to drive faster adoption and greater proficiency of the changes that
impact our staff and clients due to our current IT Transformation projects. The aim of this role is to increase benefit realisation, value creation and ROI with results and outcomes.
- Apply a structured methodology for leading change management activities across
system and process changes for BFS - Assess the change impact of changes including conducting change impact analysis,
assess change readiness and development of a communication plan for all
stakeholders impacted by the change project. - Support training efforts through conducting training needs analysis, documenting
requirements for the training and designing and delivery of training programs. - Assist the Business Solutions Manager and process owners in driving process
standardisation. - Developing and implementing a Change Management plan for the Business
Solutions Manager and broader BFS team as required to measure and monitor all
aspects of the change, identifying risk areas and determining appropriate solutions.
Support and engage senior leadership team in change management activities that
impact their area of discipline.
The successful candidate will:
- Have a personal active Christian faith.
- Be supportive of BFS vision, mission, and values.
- Have prior experience in Financial Services/Banking/ Customer Services related
change projects. - Change management experience working on complex long implementations.
IT Transformation experience (preferred) - Clear communication skills with the ability to consult and collaborate a to a variety of
stakeholders including staff, clients, vendors, and suppliers.
Ability to both get into the detail while seeing the big picture.
Ability to influence and move teams to a common vision or goal. - Flexible and adaptable
- Change management certification (preferred)
To apply for this role or for a copy of the Position Description for this role please contact the HR Manager carlys@bfs.org.au
*Please include a cover letter and a summary of your faith journey with your application.