Finance Business Analyst

Datonomy Solutions; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial consultancy in Cape Town is seeking a seasoned Finance / Accounting Business Analyst to enhance delivery of vital finance reporting. Your responsibilities include gathering requirements from stakeholders, analysing reports for accuracy, and translating financial needs into specifications for developers. Strong accounting knowledge and effective business engagement are essential. This role demands the ability to validate assumptions and ensure compliance with financial standards, making it critical for the reporting process.

Qualifications

• Ability to engage confidently with Finance stakeholders.
• Interpret financial logic effectively.
• Translate business reporting needs into specifications.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from Finance stakeholders.
• Analyse existing financial reports for accuracy.
• Provide functional specifications for reporting developers.

Skills

Deep accounting knowledge

Business engagement

Requirements gathering

Job description

Datonomy Solutions is seeking a seasoned Finance / Accounting Business Analyst to accelerate delivery of a critical finance reporting programme.

The successful candidate will be responsible for analysing, defining, and validating the requirements for complex accounting and finance reports being migrated to a new reporting platform.

This is not a technical BA role.

The core requirement is deep accounting knowledge and the ability to engage confidently with Finance stakeholders, interpret financial logic, and translate business reporting needs into accurate and testable specifications for ETL and reporting developers.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements Gathering & Business Engagement
• Engage directly with Finance stakeholders to understand reporting requirements, accounting rules, and business intent.
• Analyse existing financial and management reports to determine underlying accounting logic.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and errors in current reporting outputs.
• Functional Specification Development
• Translate financial reporting requirements into clear, accurate functional specifications for ETL and report developers.
• Ensure specifications reflect correct accounting treatments, mappings, aggregations, reconciliations, and business rules.
• Provide precise clarification of sources, calculations, and expected results.
• Accounting Logic Validation
• Apply accounting expertise to validate assumptions and ensure reporting outputs meet financial standards.
• Detect errors in specs, logic, or data interpretation before development begins.