This role will work remotely from the Philippines on behalf of our Australian-based business. You will work with the Project Leads, department leads & the operations team within the business to manage resourcing requirements across the creative, COE & Business Advisory teams. The PM is the key communicator between all of the agency, maximising efficiencies across all stages of the delivery process. To be successful in this role you’ll bring excellent communication, project management and a natural ability to find solutions to issues that seem unsolvable.

Core Principles

• Oversee programs of work for your client/s
• Owner of a ‘project trix’ (scope/ pricing, timings, resourcing, WIP, budget tracker)  for your clients
• Writing scope of work documents, ensuring commercial and scope compliance, tracking the resourcing and project process to deliver to scope (retainer or project)

Project Management

• Ensure design and delivery of all projects align with scope, and flag any risks or escalations required outside of this
• Ensure all projects are within our project management platform and set up any projects that are yet to be entered, including estimate creation, timeline creation & resource 
• Ensure financial health of each client by proactively managing (Budget reporting)
• Commercial analysis & budget reporting/ forecasting for each client
• Forward-plan, anticipate problems, identify gaps and crunch points and highlight so teams can adapt across workstreams
• Identify knowledge/resource gaps where necessary and facilitate finding a solution
• Set agenda, lead agenda, host meetings and ensure a clear plan for all team members and clients after meeting to reach next project milestone
• Schedule key project milestones and assign tasks to team members in line with overall workflow
• Assist with building best-in-class PowerPoint presentations, Word and Excel documents
• Take an active role in all aspects of the Project Management team
• Identify allocation problems and anticipate business challenges that might arise, advising stakeholders on possible solutions.
• Support with ensuring information is updated in relevant systems  
• Strong administration, time management and organisational skills.

Relationship Management: 

• A love of building friendly relationships with your colleagues, sharing your positive energy and being able to tactfully manage expectations.
• Build strong relationships with all teams within the organisation.

About Datacom

With over 6,200 people, and centre’s of technical excellence spread across Australasia, Datacom is committed to developing and growing its capability across Asia. Founded in 1965 in New Zealand, and with over 2 decades of operating in Malaysia and the Philippines, Datacom has experienced expediential growth. Through all this, Datacom has maintained high levels of profitability with a track record of delivering innovative, cost effective digital and technology solutions, all delivered by dynamic teams spread across various locations. Our people are the best in their fields – smart, passionate, and dedicated to providing exceptional IT services to our customers. This makes for a rewarding and fast-paced place to work.

About the role

Would you like to work for an International company where your opinion matters ? Where you will be recognised and involved ? If so read on : Datacom is experiencing expediential growth and looking to expand its already established operations based from Asia. Successful applicants will be part of a dynamic development team spanning across Asia working with one of Australasia’s largest organisations. Founded in 1965 in New Zealand, Datacom has over 6,500 employees, has been delivering services from Manila and Kuala Lumpur for over 2 decades and is now committed to the ongoing development of its international footprint.

Our client list is long ranging across almost every industry including government, finance, transportation, utilities and more. We’ve built an incredible range of applications for these clients from real time banking to pizza ordering, from mobile apps to latest cloud technologies and from online shopping to systems that keep the rivers clean. We’re proud of our clients and we’re proud of the work we do for them.

We’re looking for people that want the challenges of working in an MNC with really diverse clients, high paced development using the latest technologies and techniques and delivering high quality applications that make our clients happy. We want people passionate about delivering innovative software. If you’ve already achieved great results in your career and want to extend to new clients, teams and tools then this is probably the right opportunity for you.

We’re creating a team of motivated, ambitious people that want to show the world what they can do by creating great applications for customers. You’ll have access to great technologies, great people and opportunities and the backing of one of the region’s premier IT companies. Join us to find out how you can take advantage of these opportunities and take your career to the next level.

About the Role – Technical Business Analyst

Skills and Requirements

We’re looking for a confident Technical Business Analyst able to work in an agile team helping guide the use of technology and delivery approach. You will have strong technical skills acting as the pivot or intermediary between end-users and IT (Information Technology) to ensure that business/user requirements are delivered in IT solutions.

Requirements Discovery

Understand the client's business, existing processes, problems, and needs you will be responsible for

• Creating JIRA tickets

• Acceptance criteria
• Implementation details
• Mappings of consumers and providers
• Document information on Confluence
  • UML diagrams (sequence), Integration design patterns
  • Mapping tables
  • Endpoints and environments
  • Postman collections
  • Acceptance criteria
• Facilitate workshops and discussion sessions/channels
  • 3 amigos session (Dev. tester and BA)
• Swagger Docs
• Data model implementation
  • HTTP Operations
  • Data types
  • Creating Feature branches for the change
    • Committing the change and creating Pull request for Tech leds and other BAs to review the change
  • validation requirements
• Technical Ability:
  • Create Swagger Specification (Contracts) - Swagger Editor or Notepad++ or VS code
  • Understanding of the integration patterns and flows:
    • Consumers and providers of the APIs
    • Error Handling patterns
    • Messaging Queuing Processes such as ActiveMQ, Kafka
• Estimation and Team Management – You will provide estimates for Change Requests and larger pieces of work following a reliable and traceable estimation methodology.
• Design the system from a functional perspective, produce drafts of the Design documents, lead/manage the review of those documents with the client, and achieve approval and signoff of the Design documents
• Work closely with the Technical Lead and Architects, ensure they are kept updated, and especially made aware of scope changes, project issues, and risks
• Provide team with business experience, advice on industry best practices, etc.
• Provide input into User Guides as required
• Ensure all reviews required are completed at the required checkpoints
• Tools Experience:
  • Intellij/eclipse
  • Git/Bitbucket
  • Bamboo (Application delivery pipeline)
  • Splunk
  • Postman (API testing)
  • SOAP UI

Professional Qualities:

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Business Analyst working in Agile teams.
• Attention to detail
• Deadline driven
• Excellent communication skills
• Work well within a team environment
• Proficient in English

Responsibilities

As a Business Analyst you’ll be responsible for the following day-to-day activities:

• Produce drafts of the Requirements documents, lead/manage the review of those documents with the client, achieve approval and signoff of the Requirements documents

• Lead the Analysis and Design stage, arrange and lead any communication, meetings, and workshops for this stage
• Work closely with the Technical Lead, ensuring they have sufficient understanding of the functional requirements to design the System Architecture.

• Work closely with the Test Analysts, ensure they are also kept updated, and especially made aware of scope changes, project issues, and risks
• Resolve issues raised by developers and testers during the Development and Testing stages, in relation to specification questions and ambiguities, communicating with clients wherever necessary

Datacom has 2 Premier sites That you can choose from. We have offices in BGC Taguig and Eastwood City Libis Quezon City. We have a Flexible work from Home Arrangement, and flexible work schedule and we promote Work-Life balance an APAC focus means no graveyard shifts!

We also provide Exciting perks such as Spotter Bonus, HMO with Free 4 Dependent, Leave credits, Performance bonuses, and a work-life balance environment

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The role will be responsible for supporting end-to-end project accounting life cycle activities for assigned accounts and projects. The role will be involved with stakeholder coordination to execute processes that will drive the completion of assigned projects.

• Perform routine and assigned tasks that support ongoing projects in compliance with the contract, service level agreement, define methodologies, and procedures.
• Assist in reviewing projects for accurate revenue recognition.
• Support data gathering and report generation requirements to support various reporting requirements for each project.

• Escalate identified issues and concerns to the Team Lead for timely resolution.
• Maintain the SOP/DTP of current processes and incorporate documentation updates as required.
• Perform multiple routine tasks in compliance with service level agreement, process, policies, and procedures.
• Gather information and documentation to assist in investigating and in resolving issues within the assigned process.
• Perform POOL transactional task and provide assistance in resolving employee center tickets.

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