Finance Business Analyst
Day Rate: Up to £550 per day
Contract: Inside IR35
Location: Glasgow (Hybrid - 2 days on site per week)
Duration: 6 month initial contract with extension potential
We're recruiting for an experienced Finance Business Analyst to support finance‑led change initiatives across systems, processes, and data. This role is suited to a BA with strong corporate finance and accounting experience, combining deep finance knowledge with hands‑on business analysis delivery.
This is not a generic Financial Services BA role. You must have worked within internal finance functions, supporting finance operations and finance system transformations.
The Role
You'll work closely with senior Finance stakeholders, delivery teams, and project leadership to define, shape, and deliver technology‑enabled improvements that drive real business value.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Partnering with Finance to understand business priorities, challenges, and opportunities
2. Leading requirements definition across finance system and process change initiatives
3. Producing functional and non‑functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
4. Facilitating finance process workshops to identify inefficiencies, risks, and improvement opportunities
5. Supporting agile and/or waterfall delivery teams through estimation, build, testing, and UAT
6. Mapping AS‑IS and TO‑BE finance processes and data flows
7. Supporting Project Managers with delivery planning, business cases, and governance
8. Helping communicate the benefits of change to support adoption and reduce resistance
Essential Experience
9. Proven experience as a Business Analyst working within corporate finance environments
10. Strong understanding of finance and accounting processes (. month‑end close, reporting, cash, FP&A, controls)
11. Hands‑on experience supporting finance systems or finance transformation programmes
12. Confident working with senior finance stakeholders (FD, CFO level)
13. Strong requirements management skills across agile and/or waterfall frameworks
14. Ability to work independently and take ownership of complex finance initiatives
15. Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and visual)
Desirable Experience
16. ERP or finance platform exposure (. SAP, Oracle, Workday, Dynamics, EPM tools)
17. Data flow mapping or conceptual data modelling
18. Experience supporting UAT, cutover, and go‑live
19. Previous contract experience in complex or enterprise environments
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.