Senior Data Analyst

About us

BGL delivers software solutions to over 12,700 businesses in 15 countries through its user-friendly and highly intelligent web applications, combining amazing UX with powerful technology

We’re a global team of 250+ professionals based in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. With a strong reputation for excellence, we deliver high-quality Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to the accounting industry, specialising in self-managed superannuation funds and corporate compliance.

We’re proud to celebrate achievements that reflect our culture and our people, including:

• Great Place to Work certification

• AFR Best Places to Work (Technology, Top 10)

• Mental Health First Aid Workplace Recognition

• Australia’s Best Workplaces™ for Women list

• AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies – ranked four times in six years

About the role

As a Senior Data Analyst, you will build and maintain data models, pipelines, and dashboards to support reporting, analytics, and influence data-driven decision-making. Working with cross-functional teams, you will turn business needs into clear data solutions and actionable insights 

What you’ll be doing 

• Ensure data models and dashboards are up to date with BGL client compliance and business reporting requirements 

• Stay up to date with developments in DBT, AWS and analytics engineering and apply improvements where there is opportunities

• Continuously look for opportunities to improve data quality, pipeline reliability and dashboard usability for BGL internal teams

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as engineering, product, sales and operations to define metrics and deliver data solutions

• Drive regular reporting cycles including monthly and quarterly business reviews

• Support stakeholders to define metrics, calculation logic, and reporting requirements before translating them into DBT models

• Investigate and resolve data discrepancies, anomalies, and dashboard issues communicated by internal teams

• Manage data ingestion from third-party sources through Airbyte, including GA4, Google Sheets, and other SaaS platforms as needed

• Deploy and monitor DBT jobs through Jenkins CI/CD, review run logs to troubleshoot failures, and collaborate with DevOps team to resolve pipeline or access issues 

• Build and maintain internal dashboards and charts in Apache Superset, including managing users, roles, dataset access, and row-level security controls

What we’re looking for

• A formal qualification of a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Data Science, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field

• 3 years of experience in a Senior Data Analyst role

• 5 years of experience in a Data Analyst role

• Experience using data technologies like DBT, Hadoop, Spark/PySpark, or Athena/Presto

• Experience with AWS cloud or similar

• Excellent problem-solving skills with an entrepreneurial mindset and ability to work independently

• Expert communication skills with an ability to influence cross functional teams and leaders

• Understanding of Superannuation legislation and compliance requirements is nice to have

• Ability to effectively prioritise tasks to achieve deadlines

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile methodology

Culture & Benefits 

We take pride in continuously building and improving our culture, and we welcome people who share our values. With a consistently strong engagement score of 85%+, we regularly seek feedback through engagement surveys, 1:1s, focus groups, and even casual coffee catch-ups. Our average employee tenure of 5+ years is a testament to the supportive and rewarding environment we’ve created—and we’ve got plenty of exciting things planned for the future!

Benefits you’ll enjoy include:

• Extra time off with additional annual leave, RDOs, and the option to purchase extra leave

• Hybrid working arrangements for all employees

• Learning and development opportunities, including annual development budgets, tailored development plans, paid study leave, and stretch opportunities

• Regular social activities, from monthly team lunches to annual company-wide events

• Comprehensive health and wellbeing programs, including EAP, flu shots, and run club

• Paid volunteering leave to give back to the community

Please note we are only able to consider applicants with full working rights for Australia.