Finance Business Analyst

We are currently partnering with a rapidly growing speciality Insurer to recruit a Finance Systems Business Analyst. The successful candidate will support the Head of Finance Systems and wider Finance team in delivering finance systems, process and data transformation.Key responsibilities;

• Act as a key bridge between Finance, Technology, and Data teams, ensuring Finance requirements are clearly understood and translated into practical, scalable solutions.
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the end-to-end Finance systems landscape, including system architecture, interactions, data flows, integrations, ownership models, and reporting dependencies.
• Support the delivery of the Finance Systems strategy through business analysis, requirements definition, process design, solution evaluation, and implementation support.
• Contribute to the development and ongoing evolution of the Finance Systems Blueprint by documenting the current-state architecture, identifying gaps, and supporting the design of the target-state operating model.
• Identify opportunities to simplify Finance processes, automate manual activities, strengthen controls, reduce complexity, and improve scalability.
• Define detailed business requirements, process maps, user stories, dependencies, decision points, data requirements, and implementation inputs for transformation initiatives.
• Support the development of Databricks as the single source of truth for Finance data, including data ownership, standards, governance, quality controls, and reporting requirements.
• Identify and coordinate the resolution of data issues, helping to improve data consistency, completeness, accuracy, reliability, and usability.
• Review Finance integrations and recommend improvements to ownership, monitoring, resilience, performance, and scalability.
• Partner with Finance, Technology, Data, Procurement, Human Resources, and external vendors to deliver effective system, data, reporting, and process improvements.
• Support the optimisation of key Finance platforms, including NetSuite and Concur, by assessing system capabilities, processes, controls, reporting, integrations, vendor roadmaps, and enhancement opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to improve Procure-to-Pay, travel and expense processes, automation, analytics, and reporting while reducing manual reconciliations, spreadsheet dependencies, and end-user computing solutions.
• Support testing, implementation, stakeholder adoption, benefits tracking, governance, and continuous improvement to ensure Finance technology investments deliver maximum value.The ideal candidate should have but not limited to;
• Background working within the Insurance industry.
• Business analysis experience across Finance systems, data transformation or process improvement.
• Strong understanding of finance processes, controls, reporting, integrations and data flows.
• Skilled in requirements gathering, process mapping, documentation, and stakeholder management.Discipline(s): Change ManagementJob type: Permanent