&Evolve

Business Systems Analyst, Finance

&Evolve

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Location: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Collaborate with finance stakeholders (e.g., accounting, FP& A, treasury) to gather, analyze, and document business and system requirements for financial applications, including those that are linked to our CRM systems via integrations.
  • Financial Process Analysis
  • Analyse current financial processes (e.g., GL, AP, AR, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting) to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation or optimization.
  • Work with stakeholders to optimise processes in finance management and reporting systems.
  • Risk and Compliance Management
  • Identify potential risks (e.g., data integrity, regulatory non-compliance, financial reporting errors) associated with business requirements and work with teams to develop mitigation strategies, ensuring adherence to internal controls and compliance standards (e.g., SOX, GAAP, IFRS).
  • Collaboration:
  • Collaborate with IT teams, software vendors, and business units to ensure that finance systems meet user needs.
  • Act as a liaison between technical teams (e.g., developers, IT architects) and business users (finance) to ensure that requirements are accurately understood and implemented.
  • Challenge:
  • Question the “as is” and explore options for the “to be”, recognising that what is being asked for is not always what is needed.
  • Ensure that requirements are understood and implemented correctly.
  • Documentation
  • Create detailed documentation including functional specifications, epics, user stories, use cases, process maps, and data flow diagrams, tailored to financial systems and audiences.
  • Develop and maintain user manuals, system documentation, and training materials for finance systems.
  • Testing and Validation
  • Assist in the development of test cases and testing procedures for new or updated finance systems.
  • Coordinate business acceptance testing (BAT) and ensure that systems meet business, accounting, and audit requirements before go-live.
  • Prioritisation:
  • Help prioritise system requirements based on business needs, resource availability, and the potential business impact.
  • Work with stakeholders to balance competing requirements and determine the most important features or improvements for finance systems.
  • Communication and Change Management
  • Provide clear, timely communication to finance stakeholders regarding system changes, expected impacts, timelines, and training.
  • Support change management initiatives to ensure smooth adoption.
  • Reporting and Analytics:
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that finance systems provide accurate and actionable reports and analytics.
  • Support the implementation of reporting tools and dashboards that track key metrics such as income, average days in due, monthly forecast targets and days sales outstanding

Requirements

  • Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in business analysis or a related field.
  • Experience with Navision or NetSuite.
  • Strong analytical, mathematical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Familiarity with business analysis tools and techniques (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio).
  • Knowledge of industry-standard methodologies and frameworks (e.g., BABOK, BPMN).
  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment is preferred.
  • Finance / Accountancy certification is preferred