Careers at Ascention
Our people are the heart of what we do
To enable them to perform at their best, we maintain a positive and motivating environment to foster personal and professional growth.
We actively promote a dynamic workplace in which integrity, openness and respect are the cornerstones of our company culture. Our consultants work as part of a diverse and cohesive team that is focused on results – delivering the best possible outcomes for our clients. We also foster innovation and opportunities to champion new ideas and our employees are motivated, engaged and proud to be part of the Ascention family.
Professional excellence is at the core of what we do, built on the foundations of company culture, reward and recognition, career management and job satisfaction – to develop satisfying and fulfilling careers for all.
We welcome career enquiries from enterprise performance management professionals, whether or not a position is listed in our current vacancies below. If you are interested in joining our passionate team, please contact us.
Vacant Positions
About Ascention
Ascention is a fast-growing Software & Technology consultancy headquartered in Sydney supporting the AUS/NZ Market. Our brand, people, and service delivery specialising in governance and management of data is the best in the business.
Ascention Values
- Outcome Focused, Value Driven – Problem Solvers, Forward Thinking, Progressive
- Integrity, Transparent, Reliable – Professional, Approachable, Collaborative
- Enjoyable, Fun, Inspiring
Job Summary
The Client Director sells solutions encompassing Ascention’s products and services to large and mid-tier accounts. The Client Director focuses on new business, but also has responsible for existing customer relationships.
Responsibilities
- Consistently achieve agreed targets for the sales of Ascention Software and Services
- Prospect and develop within the assigned territory
- Develop and maintain a quality pipeline of prospects
- Produce and execute a business plan for the assigned territory
- Produce and execute individual account plans for all major customers or prospects
- Manage the preparation of proposals and responses to ‘Invitation to Tender’ documents contributing content as appropriate.
- Maintain accurate and up to date records customer, prospect and related sales activity in the CRM database
Technical and Behavioural Requirements (refer to Competency framework)
| Technical | Level | Behavioural | Level |
| Business Acumen |
2 |
Self Awareness |
2 |
| Project Management |
3 |
Communication |
2 |
| Team Work and Team Leadership |
2 |
Stakeholder Management |
2 |
| Client Focus |
3 |
Continuous Improvement |
2 |
| Drive for Results |
3 |
Positive Attitude |
2 |
| Negotiation Skills |
3 |
Leadership |
2 |
| Problem Solving Skill |
2 |
Critical Thinking |
2 |
Highly Desirable Experience
- Proficient experience in Salesforce
- Minimum 10 years sales and account management experience
- Minimum 5 years experience in tech industry
Essential Work Permissions
- Full working rights in Australia
Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest.
Please use the form below to apply for this position
- Pre-Sales Software Engineer Role(s) – start in 2022
- Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra based
- Hybrid Working from Home Policy
- Solid base salary with fantastic Incentive program
About Us
Ascention is a fast-growing Software & Technology consultancy headquartered in Sydney supporting the AUS/NZ Market. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, we are growing fast! Our brand, people, and service delivery specialising in governance and management of data is the best in the business. We pride ourselves by our excellence and commitment to being the experts at what we do. Our hyper growth shows that our customers value it too. We are a friendly, laid back, open and smart group who thinks work should be fun, challenging and a place to grow.
About the Role
Reporting to the Solution Director, the Pre-Sales Consultant will support the sales and solutions teams. The Pre-Sales Technical team is responsible for providing technical solutions to new and existing corporate and government clients on data management solutions.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced industry professional with strong core technical skills to join and add value to a dedicated and friendly team. Responsible for actively driving and managing the pre sales process with direct and channel customers
the Pre Sales Consultant must be able to articulate the company’s technology and product portfolio, positioning to both business and technical users.
Primarily engaged in a presales technical consultancy role, the consultant will provide technical assistance and guidance during the pre sales process by identifying customers technical and business requirements, prior to designing a solution, consulting with technical teams about capabilities, and supporting business sales teams, account managers and partners on proposal activities.
Job Responsibilities
- Analyse Potential Markets before Product Launch
- Craft Sales Pitches with Sales Team
- Assist Sales Team in Qualifying Prospects
- Provide Product Knowledge Support to Sales Team
- Participate In Strategy Meetings with Marketing Team
- Build Demonstrations and Pilot Solution with the Delivery Team
- Aid and Develop Proposals and Tender Submissions with Dynamic cross sections of the Organisation
Highly Desirable Experience and Skills
- Minimum 3 years experience in tech/data industry
- Communication Skills – to collaborate with sales and technical teams and participating in discussions and presentations with prospects and client utilising strong written and oral capabilities
- Strategic Thinking Skills – to craft successful sales pitches and contributing to marketing strategy meetings
- Analytical Skills – analyse the market before a product or sales campaign launches
- Sales Skills – to be able to craft a successful sales pitch and assisting in the lead qualification process
- Organizational Skills – ability to perform multiple tasks including multiple sales opportunities, building pilots or demonstrations across numerous sales and technical team members
- Collaborative Skills – constantly collaborating presenting their sales pitches to other team members, as well as when participating in strategy meetings
Essential Work Permissions
- Full working rights in Australia
- Current security clearance to Highly Protected level.
Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest.
Please use the form below to apply for this position
- Business Analyst role – start in 2022
- Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra based
- Hybrid Working from Home Policy
- Solid base salary with super Incentive program
About Us
Ascention is a fast-growing Software & Technology consultancy headquartered in Sydney supporting the AUS/NZ Market. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, we are growing fast! Our brand, people, and service delivery specialising in governance and management of data is the best in the business. We pride ourselves by our excellence and commitment to being the experts at what we do. Our hyper growth shows that our customers value it too. We are a friendly, laid back, open and smart group who thinks work should be fun, challenging and a place to grow.
About the Role
Reporting to the PMO, the Business Analyst will support the analysis and documentation of business requirements for new systems, as well as providing going support for existing systems to ensure continuous improvement. This position will work to project managers in active projects and will analyse business and systems requirements to develop functional and technical specifications. This position will assist in mapping those requirements to the new system architectural solution, while ensuring they are consistent with Ascention and client delivery policies and procedures.
Job Responsibilities:
- Gather, analyse, and evaluate complex business requirements.
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications.
- Anticipate, research, and identify business issues and document solution government and policy compliance constraints to guide development
- Organise and participate in quality assurance activities that ensure business requirements are met such as peer reviews, external reviews and testing activities including user assurance.
- Read, comprehend, and write technical material including business cases, business requirements, and functional specifications and testing documentation to support (a) C360 solution business, data and application architecture design
- Develop, influence, and manage effective stakeholder relationships.
- Provide business analysis support for systems and others as required.
Highly Desirable Experience
- Minimum 5 years experience in tech industry
- Strong written and oral communication
Essential Work Permissions
- Full working rights in Australia
- Current security clearance to Highly Protected level.
- Progress towards or an obtained relevant tertiary qualification is desirable.
Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest.
Please use the form below to apply for this position
- Senior MDM Consultant
- Canberra / Melbourne / Sydney Based
- Hybrid Working from Home Policy
- Competitive base salary with bonus program
About Us
Ascention is a fast-growing Software & Technology consultancy headquartered in Sydney supporting the AUS/NZ Market. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, we are growing fast! Our brand, people, and service delivery specialising in governance and management of data is the best in the business. We pride ourselves by our excellence and commitment to being the experts at what we do. Our hyper growth shows that our customers value it too. We are a friendly, laid back, open and smart group who thinks work should be fun, challenging and a place to grow.
About the Role
Reporting to the COO, the Senior MDM Consultant is responsible for collaborating with customers, project leads and technical resources on related projects to bring best practices and strategy to Data, Data Governance and Data Management.
Job Responsibilities:
- Plan and lead MDM requirement analysis sessions with business users
- Define measurable metrics per subject area to support a robust and successful deployment of an MDM platform
- Define requirements for data matching and merging rules, survivorship criteria and data stewardship workflows
- Thorough understanding of master data hierarchy management
- Provide subject matter expertise on data architecture and data integration implementations
- Responsible for generating data management
- Understands and leverages enterprise architecture principles for cross-functional purposes
- Participates in products roadmap planning, recommending technologies and solutions
- Identifies and proposes new opportunities for data integration
- Consults with business representatives and work with the Business Analyst to ensure understanding of the business requirements and future strategic direction of the business/function
- Drive data quality and governance effort across organization
- Participate in pre-sales, discovery and proof of concepts as required
Key skills:
- More than five (5+) years of direct experience in MDM design, development, support and operations with a leading MDM platform
- At least five (5+) years direct experience in Data Management, Data Quality, Database and ETL development, support and operations
- Experience with MDM Software solutions and Data Virtualisation Suites is highly regarded ie Tibco, Informatica, Ataccama and others
- Exposure to and conceptual understanding of data integration tools and technologies
- Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
Essential Work Permissions
- Full working rights in Australia
Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest.
Please use the form below to apply for this position
Job Responsibilities:
- Plan and lead MDM requirement analysis sessions with business users
- Define measurable metrics per subject area to support a robust and successful deployment of an MDM platform
- Define requirements for data matching and merging rules, survivorship criteria and data stewardship workflows
- Thorough understanding of master data hierarchy management
- Provide subject matter expertise on data architecture and data integration implementations
- Responsible for generating data management
- Understands and leverages enterprise architecture principles for cross-functional purposes
- Participates in products roadmap planning, recommending technologies and solutions
- Identifies and proposes new opportunities for data integration
- Consults with business representatives and work with the Business Analyst to ensure understanding of the business requirements and future strategic direction of the business/function
- Drive data quality and governance effort across organization
- Participate in pre-sales, discovery and proof of concepts as required
Job Skill Set:
- More than ten (10+) years of direct experience in MDM design, development, support and operations with a leading MDM platform
- At least five (5+) years direct experience in Data Management, Data Quality, Database and ETL development, support and operations
- Experience with Orchestra Networks is highly regarded
- Exposure to and conceptual understanding of data integration tools and technologies
- Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
- Be able to deal with ambiguity and make quality decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and persuade at all management levels and thrive in a cross-functional matrix environment
- Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical addressees
- Able to quickly learn new technologies as they become prevalent and widely implemented including decision making, time management, and task prioritization
Key Requirements
- Strong technical background
- Comfortable dealing with senior stakeholders), gathering requirements and scoping solutions
Essential Work Permissions
- Full working rights in Australia
Location: Sydney / Melbourne / Canberra / Darwin
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Job Responsibilities
- Work closely with customers and partners to gather requirements and design complex business application and data integration solutions
- Translate business processes and requirements into technical integration requirements and designs
- Evaluate new applications to assess integration approach
- Provide architecture-level infrastructure recommendations, configuration, and sizing requirements to support the project product suite
- Recommend best practices for implementing, managing, and governing integrations
- Define and promote the adoption of best practices across the internal and external user community
Job Required Technical Skills
- Experience and proven track record in the data management and master data management space; utilising name brand vendors like Informatica, SAP, IBM, Ataccama, Stibo Systems or similar, but special notice will be made for Orchestra Networks experience
- Proven ability to design and optimize application and data integration processes across disparate systems
- Experience with enterprise integration tools, middleware technologies, and application and data integration patterns including ESB, MOM, JMS, SOAP/REST web services, databases, ETL
- Practical experience implementing service s oriented architecture design and enabling technologies including messaging, XML, JSON, web services, and HTTP
- Experience with Cloud and Software-as-a-Service paradigm and enabling technologies
- General knowledge of common business systems (CRM, SFA, ERP) and processes (lead to cash, requisitions, order management, etc.)
- General knowledge of key application infrastructure components such as VMware, storage (NAS, SAN, SMB), Java JVM, networking (firewall, load balancing, proxies)
Desired Technical Skills
- Familiarity with MDM suites
- Data architecting and modelling
- Database skills including SQL, data modelling, and databases (e.g. MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle)
- Messaging skills including JMS (e.g. ActiveMQ, MQSeries, OracleAQ)
- Development/scripting skills with Java, Groovy, JavaScript
Key Requirements
- Strong technical background
- Comfortable dealing with senior stakeholders (CFO’s), gathering requirements and scoping solutions
Essential Work Permissions
- Full working rights in Australia
Location: Sydney / Melbourne / Canberra / Darwin
Please use the form below to apply for this position
Job Responsibilities:
- Plan and lead integration requirement analysis sessions with business users
- Define integration requirements for data matching and merging rules, survivorship criteria and data stewardship workflows
- Thorough understanding of master data hierarchy management
- Provide subject matter expertise on data architecture and data integration implementations
- Responsible for generating integration management
- Understands and leverages enterprise architecture principles for cross-functional purposes
- Participates in solution roadmap planning, recommending solutions and integration paths
- Identifies and proposes new opportunities for data integration
- Consults with business representatives and work with the Business Analyst to ensure understanding of the business requirements and future strategic direction of the business/function
- Drive data quality and governance effort across organization
- Participate in pre-sales, discovery and proof of concepts as required
Job Skill Set:
- More than ten (10+) years of direct experience in integration implementation, design, development, support and operations
- At least five (5+) years direct experience in Data Management, Data Quality, Database and ETL development, support and operations
- Experience with Orchestra Networks or other MDM platforms is highly regarded
- Daily usage and expertise in data integration tools and technologies
- Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
- Be able to deal with ambiguity and make quality decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and persuade at all management levels and thrive in a cross-functional matrix environment
- Ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical addressees
- Able to quickly learn new technologies as they become prevalent and widely implemented including decision making, time management, and task prioritization
Key Requirements
- Strong technical background
- Comfortable dealing with senior stakeholders), gathering requirements and scoping solutions
Primary Technologies Required
- Java technologies (Hibernate, Velocity, Jini, JMS, XML)
- UI technologies (Ajax, .Net)
- Eclipse, CVS, Subversion, Maven, Junit, Bamboo, Jira
- Agile development
- Spring Framework (MVC, Integration, Security)
- OO Analysis and Design, UML, Design Patterns
- Business Process Modeling (BPMN, Activiti Workflow and Business Process Management Platform)
Essential Work Permissions
- Full working rights in Australia
Location: Sydney / Melbourne / Canberra / Darwin
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JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Management Accountant’s duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Responsible for managing the overall promotion campaigns planning & reporting review invoices, work orders and data to estimate peak delivery periods;
- Analyze and advise on business operations including revenue and expenditure trends, financial commitments, and future revenue;
- Plan and schedule the execution of the promotion campaigns to completion on time and budget;
- Maintain company accounting systems, and advise on the application and integration of CRM, Analytical systems;
- Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures;
- Source further sales, initiate idea and suggest improvements throughout all areas of the business; to collect and analyze data associated with campaigns undertaken; to prepare and reports on project outcomes;
- Providing recommendations and maintain solutions to business and financial problems;
- Working with analytics reporting tools such as Power BI and Zoho Suite;
SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:
- Strong experience with Power BI including DAX and Power Query
- Experience in Data Modelling and Data Warehousing
- Ability to analyse complex reports in Power BI and the ZOHO Suite
- Demonstrated experience with forecasting and budgeting
- Demonstrated experience in applying accounting principles and relevant standards
- Ability to effectively communicate accounting concepts to non-finance staff including project managers
- Organised and structured in daily duties
- Excellent attention to detail
- Team player and ability to establish strong relationships both internally and externally to the organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate business partnering
- Ability to prioritise and manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
- Advanced Excel and database management skills (SQL)
- Business/Finance related degree
- Willingness to study towards CPA or CA