Finance Business Analyst - Hybrid Working

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global insurance company is seeking a Finance Business Analyst to join their Finance Change Team in London. This hybrid role involves managing product backlogs, facilitating requirements, and ensuring successful implementation of finance systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in finance software and agile methodologies, and strong communication skills to engage with diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with finance software implementations.
• 5+ years in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner or Business Analyst.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and write requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Manage and refine the product backlog.
• Validate implementation across sprint reviews and testing phases.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Organizational Skills

Teamwork

Job description

Job Description

Finance Business Analyst - Hybrid Working

Our client, a global Insurance company, is currently looking to hire a Business Analyst with a strong finance systems background to join the team on a hybrid working contract basis with the client site based in London.

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. The responsibilities include facilitating and writing requirements, acceptance criteria, and validating solution implementation. The project adopts a hybrid agile delivery model by a third party, and 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 the formulation and acceptance of key design decisions.
• Validate implementation across sprint reviews and testing phases; provide feedback, raise bugs, and facilitate 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 the ability to communicate clearly and professionally.
• Good understanding of project governance and lifecycle.
• Solid analytical and organizational skills to review, challenge, and influence solutions and processes.
• Good numerical skills; confident in using IT platforms to solve finance problems; familiar with finance from detail level to C-suite.
• Experience with financial reporting requirements, including statutory reporting, management reporting, or financial planning.
• Able to operate independently and manage remote work effectively.
• Ability to manage diverse stakeholder relationships across the organization.
• Experience working collaboratively with third-party consultants to deliver effective OneStream Financial Models.
• Team player with good 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 modeling.
• Data modeling of financial data and CUBE/Star Schema.
• Data analysis and reconciliation skills.
• Experience in defect triage, bug classification, and prioritization.
• Familiarity with financial modeling and statutory reporting platforms.

Minimum Experience

1. 7+ years of direct experience with finance software implementations and delivering finance MI requirements.
2. Understanding of accounting principles and EPM solutions.
3. 5+ years of experience working in a global business environment.
4. 5+ years of experience working in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner or Business Analyst.
5. Experience with OneStream is beneficial.
6. Experience in extracting and analyzing data from financial systems.
7. Proven experience in agile delivery methodologies.

Please apply!

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