Finance Business Analyst

The Wonderfield Group has recently been purchased by Zensho Holdings, the leading food service company in Japan with a market cap of $5.5b and whose aim is to become the worlds largest food company, a position from which we can eradicate hunger and poverty from around the globe. We operate restaurants, factories, and thousands of sushi kiosks and have recently built a successful cut fruit business, Snowfruit. Combining this with the three businesses previously owned by Zensho, AFC, Sushi Circle and Sushi Take, results in annual sales of $2.5b and Ebitda in excess of $140m a year with an ambitious growth trajectory.

Finance Business Analyst

We are seeking a skilled Business Analyst with a financial accounting background to support a complex global change programme introducing an ERP platform (Business Central). The successful candidate will play a crucial role in data analysis, data migration, governance, business change, testing, and ensuring the smooth implementation of strategic initiatives.

Joining an existing programme within this new role to showcase the value of an Analyst who has experience of delivering within a change programme and having the ability to adapt to different disciplines as the change programme moves through the lifecycle.

Overview of the role :
The Wonderfield Group is seeking a Business Analyst with a strong finance background to support transformation initiatives and process improvements across core finance functions.
Working closely with Finance, Technology, Audit, and Transformation teams, you will play an important role in the ERP (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central) implementation, alongside a range of finance transformation projects.

This role involves working across both business and technical teams to gather, analyse and document requirements, helping to automate manual workflows, support more standardised ways of working, and enable better use of data within a new Target Operating Model (TOM).

Key Accountabilities:
• â¯Facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders and SMEs to gather and analyse business requirements
• Map As-Is and To-Be processes, identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency
• Support finance transformation initiatives and system implementations, including ERP (Business Central)
• Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications and user stories
• Create and maintain clear, structured documentation (requirements, process maps, test scripts, etc.)
• Support system and user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring solutions meet business needs
• Work closely with cross-functional teams while taking ownership of deliverables and seeing them through to completion
• Identify risks, issues, and opportunities for improvement, and follow these through with relevant stakeholders

What you’ll need:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within finance transformation programmes
• Strong understanding of financial accounting principles and core finance processes (e.g. GL, AP, AR, reporting)
• Experience supporting ERP implementations (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is desirable)
• Strong process mapping, requirements gathering, and stakeholder management skills
• Strong attention