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Finance Consolidation Business Analyst - Hybrid Working - Outside IR35
Our client, a global Insurance company, is currently looking to hire a Business Analyst with Finance Consolidation project experience to join the team on a hybrid working contract basis with the client site based in London.
Systems Experience:
* OneStream
* CCH Tagetik
This role operates within the Finance Change Team and is crucial to the redevelopment of the OneStream Architecture, leveraging the capabilities of the OneStream MI solution. Responsibilities include facilitating and writing requirements, acceptance criteria, and validating solution implementation. The project adopts a hybrid agile delivery model managed by a third party. The role will manage the product backlog and facilitate UAT and Business Acceptance testing phases.
Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities
* Facilitate and write requirements and acceptance criteria for Epics and Stories
* Ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are approved by stakeholders
* Review proposed solution designs to meet requirements and acceptance criteria and ensure their acceptance
* Support formulation and acceptance of key design decisions
* Validate implementation across sprint reviews and testing phases, providing feedback, raising bugs, and facilitating test case and evidence collection
* Facilitate and perform Data Reconciliation
* Support and facilitate product backlog review, prioritization, and sizing sessions with the business and implementation team
* Manage and refine the product backlog to reflect current priorities and sizing
* Support and facilitate the formulation of Change Requests (CRs), providing impact assessments, cost benefits, and recommendations
* Conduct and facilitate defect triage to ensure bugs and feedback are correctly identified and prioritized for resolution
Knowledge and Experience
* Strong influencing and negotiating skills
* Excellent communication and presentation skills with clarity and professionalism
* Good understanding of project governance and lifecycle
* Solid analytical and organizational skills to review, challenge, and influence solutions and processes
* Proficient with IT platforms to solve finance problems, with a good numerical aptitude, and conversant in finance language from detail to C-suite level
* Experience with financial reporting requirements, including statutory, management, or financial planning reporting
* Ability to operate independently, work remotely, and manage diverse stakeholder relationships
* Experience working collaboratively with third-party consultants on OneStream Financial Models
* Strong personal skills, pragmatism, and diplomacy
* Expertise in requirements, Epics, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria specification
* Experience managing agile product backlogs in Scrum
* Knowledge of process and requirements modelling
* Data modelling of financial data and CUBE/Star Schema
* Data analysis and reconciliation skills
* Defect triage, bug prioritization, and severity classification
* Experience with financial modelling and statutory reporting platforms
Additional Experience
* 7+ years of direct experience in finance software implementations and delivering finance MI requirements
* Understanding of accounting principles and EPM solutions
* 5+ years in a global business environment
* 5+ years working in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner or Business Analyst
* Experience with OneStream is beneficial
* Experience extracting and analyzing data from financial systems
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