Senior Performance Analyst

Description:

Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Campus. We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities.

Processing and analysing data and information from business, internal systems and external sources and transform this data into actionable insights that inform business decisions to improve university performance.

The position will ensure timely delivery of programs, services, reporting and data insights, and analyse complex scenario modelling for proposed solutions.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the resolution of complex issues by analysing large volumes of data and providing clear recommendations
• Integrating multiple data sources to seek trends and analyse issues from diverse perspectives to draw sound inferences
• Preparing executive level reporting and dashboards
• Use accepted theory and practices to develop and deploy continuous improvement actions to identify opportunities for efficiency and improvement including reusable artefacts and systems development
• Challenge the status quo through review of existing assumptions, ideas, practices and policies to translate into actionable workplace improvements

To be successful, you’ll have:

Qualifications and experience

• Postgraduate qualifications or progress toward postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience; or
• An equivalent combination or relevant experience and/or education/training
• Experience working within a large scale and complex organisation
• Experience gathering, documenting and interpreting user requirements
• Knowledge of systems, process and business improvement capabilities
• Experience designing effective solutions to complex business problems
• CPA or CA (desirable)
• Knowledge of Tableau / Alteryx preferred, but not essential