Business Analyst

About Us

Rapid Loans is a leading Auto and Personal Loans company committed to providing exceptional lending solutions to our customers. With a focus on integrity, innovation, and customer satisfaction, we strive to empower individuals to achieve their financial goals.

About the role

We are looking for a Business Analyst professional who has experience in financial services and software. This role will report to the Lead Developer at Rapid Loans on the Gold Coast and work closely with the Rapid Loans product team based in Miami, Gold Coast.

This is a 12-month contract with options to extend based on both parties.

Rapid is working with modern software solutions, to solve modern business problems. You will be working on everything, from helping define the product roadmap, to release management. This is a chance to get involved with all aspects to get a complete understanding of the product, the stakeholders, and the unique selling points of the service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defining and documenting the product's features, and requirements, ensuring they align with the product strategy and customer needs.

• Wearing the ‘Product Owner’ title in the scrum team.

• Gather and analyse business requirements for new and upgraded applications, working closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and priorities.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive business requirements documents (BRDs), clearly documenting the purpose, scope, functionality, and non-functional requirements of the applications.

• Prioritising features and user stories based on business value, customer impact, and resource constraints.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and prioritize requirements through workshops, surveys, and data analysis.

• Manage a backlog based on business priorities.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including development, design, marketing, and sales, to ensure alignment on product goals and priorities.

• Manage the delivery of software in an agile methodology.

• Support the development and testing of new and upgraded applications by clarifying requirements, reviewing design documents, and testing applications.

Required skills:

• A broad knowledge in various methodology practices and concepts.

• Experience in Agile methodologies.

• Experience in articulating requirements into system architecture and design.

• Knowledge of cloud architectures with Azure, AWS, PaaS, and SaaS products.

• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills with an ability to synthesize complex problems into simple and actionable directives.

• Ability to effectively liaise with stakeholders with competing priorities.

Why Rapid Loans?

We have each other’s back and enjoy coming to work every day. Hopefully, like us, you want to spend your working life with people who have the same interests, people whom you get along with and who have a common goal in mind.

We offer our employees a challenging, rewarding, and fun work environment.

• Amazing Gold Coast location – close to the beach and cafes

• Free yoga classes 1-2 times per week.

• Team events and social incentives

• Dynamic team and friendly and supportive environment

• Growth opportunities