Power BI Developer, Finance Operations (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Power BI Developer, Finance Operations (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

• Join us in shaping the future of the insurance industry, driven by innovation and a 150-year legacy of protecting people 
• Take advantage of well-being initiatives designed to support your mental and physical health, ensuring a balanced lifestyle 
• Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders who inspire, support, and value your contributions

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Daiichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services. 

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities. 

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance. 

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer. 

NOTE: This role has potential to be extended beyond the initial 12 month contract.

Join TAL's Finance team as a Power BI Developer, where you'll create intuitive reporting and visualisation solutions that enable stakeholders to access timely, accurate financial insights. Leveraging an established data environment, you'll transform complex data into meaningful reporting that supports better business decision-making while driving operational efficiencies and continuous improvement.

Working within a collaborative and supportive team, you'll partner closely with business stakeholders to understand challenges, uncover opportunities and deliver fit-for-purpose reporting solutions. Success in this role will come from your curiosity, analytical mindset and ability to learn quickly, ask insightful questions and continuously refine solutions based on user feedback. You'll thrive in an environment that values teamwork, knowledge sharing and practical problem-solving.

In this role you will:

• Work directly with stakeholders to translate business questions into measures and report views, iterating as requirements evolve
• Source, transform and shape data to populate the semantic model, applying tools such as SQL and Power Query where appropriate
• Extend the semantic data model where needed to support new reporting requirements, with support from senior team members
• Develop professional, user-friendly Power BI reports and dashboards using the semantic data model (star schema)
• Create DAX measures to support new visualisations and business logic, with attention to performance and correctness
• Engage report users to collect feedback on draft views, assess whether reports are useful and being adopted, and improve reports based on their input
• Improve dataset refresh performance, workspace structure, and documentation so reporting stays reliable and maintainable over time.
• Take an end-to-end view of delivery from requirements elicitation and design through to implementation, testing, reconciliation, feedback and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• Degree in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or equivalent demonstrated experience
• Experience developing Power BI reports and dashboards
• Working proficiency in DAX for measure creation, calculated columns, and Calculation Groups
• Good understanding of data modelling concepts, particularly star schema design and table relationships

Desirable:

• Qualified or part-qualified Actuary (FIAA or equivalent), or Accountant (CA or CPA)
• Experience in life insurance or financial services reporting
• Familiarity with financial reporting cycles and regulatory requirements
• Experience creating user documentation or training materials

Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be:  

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency from 2014 to 2025 and 2023 to 2026 Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index  
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change  
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan. 
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals with disability/ies, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ community.  
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you. 

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.   

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.  

#LI-Hybrid  

Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

If you are already a TAL employee please apply via the SmartRecruiters button in Workday and navigate to the Employee Portal. This is important to ensure that your application is recorded accurately.