Business Analyst – Finance Operating Model

Cathcart Technology; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Cathcart Technology in Liverpool is seeking an experienced Contract Business Analyst to support a Finance Operating Model programme. The role focuses on understanding current finance operating practices and shaping a practical future-state model.

You will run discovery workshops, interview stakeholders, map processes, and support design of target operating model, governance, ownership, and cross-functional dependencies. Hybrid work with circa three days per week in Liverpool.

Qualifications

• Strong BA experience in operating model design and finance transformation.
• Expertise in current-state assessments, process mapping and RACI modelling.
• Experience supporting target operating model and future-state design initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical skills to bring clarity to complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops and stakeholder interviews to map current ways of working.
• Map processes across people, governance, controls, systems, data and reporting.
• Identify pain points, clarify ownership and accountabilities.
• Support target operating model design and transition to improved ways of working.

Skills

Operating model design

Finance transformation

Current-state assessments

Process mapping

RACI modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Analytical skills

Job description

Contract Business Analyst | Finance Operating Model | Liverpool (Hybrid)

6 month contract with chance of extension

Hybrid Liverpool circa 3 days per week

£400 per day Outside IR35

We’re looking for an experienced Business Analyst to play a key role in a major Finance Operating Model programme. This is a highly visible piece of work focused on understanding how the finance function operates today and helping shape a more effective future-state operating model.

You’ll lead discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews and process reviews to map current ways of working across people, processes, governance, controls, systems, data and reporting. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll identify pain points, clarify ownership and accountabilities, support target operating model design, and help drive the transition to improved ways of working

Skills & Experience:

• Strong Business Analysis experience within operating model design, organisational change, finance transformation or business change
• Expertise in current-state assessments, process mapping and ownership/RACI modelling
• Experience supporting target operating model and future-state design initiatives
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to bring structure and clarity to complex environments

Good understanding of Finance processes, controls, ownership models and cross-functional dependencies.

This is a role for someone who can ask the right questions, challenge constructively, identify where accountabilities or processes are unclear, and help shape a Finance operating model that is practical, sustainable and capable of supporting their finance priorities.