Senior Software Developer

Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Senior Software Developer on a 6 month contract, based remote.

Role Overview

This is a contractor assignment for an experienced Senior Software Developer with a strong focus on business analysis and pre-development solution shaping within a finance environment.

The role is designed to provide short-term, high-impact support to Finance and Digital teams by ensuring business needs are clearly understood, analysed and translated into actionable requirements before development begins.

Key Responsibilities

· Engage with Accounting, Controlling and FP&A stakeholders to elicit, clarify and challenge requirements before software development starts.

· Analyse current-state and target-state finance processes, identifying inefficiencies, risks and opportunities for simplification.

· Translate business needs into clear, prioritised functional and non-functional requirements suitable for delivery teams.

· Act as the initial gatekeeper for new requirements and incidents, ensuring they are well-defined, value-driven and technically feasible.

· Design pragmatic, sustainable technical solutions aligned to enterprise standards and long-term maintainability.

· Provide hands-on senior development input where required, maintaining a solution-level view across the application landscape.

· Review existing applications and integrations to assess alignment with business intent and recommend improvements.

· Ensure business logic is transparent, documented and testable to support auditability and compliance.

· Collaborate with onshore and offshore teams to ensure shared understanding of business context and priorities.

· Support release, deployment and governance activities, escalating risks and dependencies as appropriate.

· Identify opportunities to simplify finance processes, reduce manual effort and improve transparency through digital solutions.

· Provide focused ad-hoc analysis and insight to support prioritisation and decision-making during the assignment.

Experience/ Requirements

· Extensive experience as a senior software developer in complex, enterprise environments.

· Strong capability in business analysis within technology-led initiatives.

· Proven ability to engage confidently with senior finance stakeholders and translate business problems into technical direction.

· Solid understanding of finance, accounting or controlling processes and data flows.

· Experience with modern development and delivery practices including cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.

· An outcome-focused, pragmatic mindset with the ability to deliver value quickly in a time-bound contractor engagement.

Our Company

Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time!