Senior Business Analyst

Working within the Finance Change function, bridging the gap between the finance department and IT by analysing business needs within financial systems, identifying areas for improvement, designing solutions, and collaborating with technical teams to implement changes, ensuring accurate financial reporting and efficient system operations across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering: Understand current finance processes, identify pain points, and document functional requirements for system enhancements or new features.
• System analysis: Evaluate existing finance systems, analyse data flows, and identify potential areas for optimization.
• Solution design: Collaborate with stakeholders to design system solutions that align with business needs, including process mapping, workflow design, and data integration.
• Implementation support: Work with IT teams to implement new system features, configure settings, and manage data migration. Assist with the creation of test documentation including UAT.
• User training: Developing and delivering training materials to end users on new system functionalities and updates.
• Reporting and analysis: Create reports and dashboards to monitor system performance and identify trends, providing insights for decision-making.

Performance Objectives:

• Requirements and Analysis: Understand finance processes, identify pain points / process inefficiencies, document requirements through user stories, and evaluate existing systems for optimisation.

• Solution Design and Implementation: Collaborate with stakeholders to design system solutions, with IT to implement new features, configure settings, and manage data migration.
• Training, Support, and Reporting: Develop and deliver training, troubleshoot system issues, provide user support, and create reports and dashboards to monitor system performance and provide insights.

Skills and Experience Specification:

Essential:

• Financial acumen: Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting, processes, data, controls, reporting cycles and key financial metrics. Background in financial accounting, financial control, financial reporting, Finance Operations or FP&A.
• Business analysis skills: Proficiency in requirement gathering, writing user stories, process mapping, data analysis, and solution design. Ability to produce high-quality business analysis artefacts, including user stories, process maps, data flow diagrams, use cases, and functional specifications. Strong problem-solving abilities and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Technical knowledge: Familiarity with finance systems (ERP, workflow, payment, treasury, consolidation & reporting systems), data manipulation tools, and basic programming skills. Demonstrable experience analysing complex data flows and systems interactions.
• Communication skills: Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stakeholder management: Building strong relationships with finance users, IT teams, and business leaders to ensure project alignment.

Desirable:

• Experience with the following tools:
  1. Pega
  2. Bottomline (cards & DD)
  3. Tagetik
  4. Peoplesoft ERP
  5. Anaplan
  6. PowerBI
• Experience working within the insurance industry, especially London Market.
• Experience using Azure Dev Ops
• Experience and qualifications in Agile / Scrum methodology, certifications desirable

Reasonable Adjustments:

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