Business Analysis & Requirements
Getting to the heart of what a business actually needs — then turning it into requirements clear enough to build on and honest enough to prioritise against.
Not available for new engagements
BA · Product · Strategy
Better processes. Better products. Better decisions.
I help organisations see their problems clearly and act on them with confidence — pairing strategic analysis and product thinking with the data that makes the right call the obvious one.
The work
I help organisations turn complex operations into clear, confident decisions — by sharpening the process behind the work, shaping products around what really matters, and making the data say something worth acting on.
Consulting
Insurance
Retail & Logistics
01 About
A clear head for complex problems.
I'm a Business Analyst who sits between the people setting direction and the systems that carry it out — turning messy, ambiguous problems into decisions an organisation can actually move on.
For the better part of a decade I've helped consulting, insurance and retail businesses run better: sharpening the processes behind the work, shaping products around what customers and the commercial reality demand, and building the reporting that finally makes performance visible. I'm equally at home in the boardroom narrative and the detail of the data model beneath it.
What I bring is judgement as much as analysis — knowing which questions matter, where the real friction sits, and how to get a room of competing priorities pointed at the same outcome.
Strategic rigourStructure, evidence, direction
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Product instinctUsers, iteration, outcomes
02 Areas of Expertise
Where I add the most value.
Six things I'm relied on to do well — from framing the real problem to proving, with data, that the fix actually worked.
Product Management & Strategy
Owning products end to end, with roadmaps and trade-offs grounded in what users genuinely need and what the business can sustain.
Process Optimisation & Transformation
Mapping how work really happens, stripping out the friction that slows it down, and leading change that people stay bought into.
Data Analytics & Insight
Reading the story in operational and financial data — the trends, risks and openings that should shape the next decision.
Performance Reporting & Visualisation
Designing dashboards leaders actually use, then automating them so the insight arrives without the manual effort.
Stakeholder Engagement
Earning trust across executives, operators and delivery teams — and aligning competing priorities behind a single, shared result.
03 Professional Impact
Outcomes, not just outputs.
A look at the difference good analysis makes when it lands.
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Faster reporting, once automation did the heavy lifting
Days of manual data prep collapsed into a refresh that runs on its own.
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Executive dashboards built and actually adopted
Designed for the decision, not the data — so leaders return to them.
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Manual hours given back to teams every month
Time teams now spend on judgement and analysis instead of copy-paste.
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Improvement initiatives led from start to finish
From current-state mapping through to change people actually kept using.
Cut reporting timelines from days to minutes by automating the manual preparation.
Built self-serve dashboards that gave leaders real-time visibility of performance.
Created reporting frameworks teams trusted enough to treat as the single source of truth.
Informed strategic calls with clear-eyed risk, trend and financial analysis.
Led process improvements that lifted both efficiency and accuracy at once.
Standardised KPI definitions so the whole business measured success the same way.
04 Career Journey
A track record across consulting, insurance & retail industries.
Managing a portfolio of products with full responsibility for performance, optimisation and the monthly reporting cycle — partnering closely with stakeholders and supporting budgeting and process design.
- Managed multiple products and their monthly performance reporting
- Led product optimisation and process improvement initiatives
- Designed current-state and future-state processes; supported budgeting
Owned data analysis, dashboard development and business intelligence reporting, while supporting a major migration project with financial data modelling and risk insight.
- Built dashboards and BI reporting for the business
- Delivered financial data modelling, risk and trend analysis
- Supported a migration project end to end with data analysis
Automated operational and logistics reporting, building VBA and macro solutions that compressed manual effort and sharpened the inputs to operational planning.
- Automated reporting with VBA and macro development
- Produced logistics and stakeholder reporting
- Supported operational planning with reliable, timely data
05 Core Expertise
The domains where I deliver.
Across business analysis, data intelligence, industry knowledge and delivery — the capabilities that turn complex problems into clear outcomes.
Business Analysis & Consulting
Requirements Elicitation
Stakeholder Management
Workshop Facilitation
Process Mapping (As-Is / To-Be)
Gap Analysis
Solution Design
Business Transformation
Data & Decision Intelligence
Data Analytics
Business Intelligence
Financial Analysis
Performance Reporting
KPI Development
Dashboard Design
Reporting Automation
Insurance & Commercial
Insurance Operations
Commercial Analysis
Budgeting & Forecasting
Risk Analysis
Product Management
Client Delivery
Decision Support
Change & Delivery
Continuous Improvement
Agile Delivery
Change Impact Assessment
Operational Excellence
Process Optimisation
Documentation & Governance
Cross-Functional Collaboration
06 Technical Toolkit
The tools behind the insight.
Fluent across the analytics stack — from query and modelling through to visualisation, automation and delivery.
Analytics & Reporting
Power BI
QlikView
DAX
KPI Reporting
Data & Automation
SQL
Python
R
VBA
Modelling & Decision Support
Excel
Data Modelling
Forecasting
Financial Analysis
Delivery & Collaboration
Jira
Confluence
Agile Delivery
Stakeholder Management
07 Professional Philosophy
Good analysis isn't about more data. It's about giving people the clarity to decide — and act — with confidence.
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Start with the decision
Every report and model exists to support a choice someone has to make. I work back from that choice — not from whatever data happens to be lying around.
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Make it self-serve
The best reporting takes me out of the loop. I automate the manual work and design for clarity, so teams can answer their own questions without waiting.
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Bring people with you
Insight only creates value when people trust it and use it. Alignment and plain, honest communication are part of the analysis — never an afterthought.
08 Insights
Thinking out loud.
Notes on analysis, product thinking and the craft of decision-grade reporting.
09 Contact
Let's solve the problem worth solving.
Hiring, scoping a consulting engagement, or just stuck on a reporting problem that won't behave? I'm always happy to talk it through.
Emailcontact@mathewhutchison.com
LinkedInwww.linkedin.com/in/mathewhutchison
LocationMelbourne, Australia