Finance Business Analyst - Hybrid Working

Summary: The Finance Business Analyst role at a global Insurance company involves working within the Finance Change Team to enhance the OneStream Architecture. The position requires strong finance systems expertise to facilitate requirements gathering, manage product backlogs, and oversee testing phases in a hybrid working environment. The analyst will collaborate with stakeholders and third-party consultants to ensure successful implementation and validation of financial solutions. This role is crucial for driving effective financial reporting and analysis within the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and write requirements and acceptance criteria for Epics and Stories
• Ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are approved by stakeholders
• Review proposed solution designs meet the requirement and acceptance criteria and ensure their acceptance
• Support the formulation and acceptance of key design decisions
• Validate implementation across sprint reviews and all testing phases, and provide feedback and raise bugs, facilitating the capture of test cases and test evidence
• Facilitate and perform Data Reconciliation
• Support and facilitate product backlog review, prioritisation and sizing sessions with the business and implementation team
• Manage and refine the product backlog to ensure it reflects the most recent priorities and sizing
• Support and facilitate the formulation of CRs and provide inputs into the impact assessment, cost benefits and recommendations
• Conduct and facilitate defect triage to ensure bugs vs feedback are correctly identified and agreed for resolution and/or backlog prioritisation

Key Skills:

• Strong influencing and negotiating skills
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Good understanding of project governance and lifecycle
• Solid analytical and organisational skills
• Good numerical skills and confident using IT platforms for finance problems
• Experience of financial reporting requirements
• Able to operate on own initiative and be self-managing
• Ability to manage diverse stakeholder relationships
• Work collaboratively with 3rd Party consultants
• Team player with good personal skills
• Excellent requirements, Epics, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria specification
• Managing agile product backlogs in scrum
• Process and requirements modelling
• Data Modelling of financial data and CUBE/Star Schema
• Data Analysis Reconciliation
• Defect triage and classification of bug prioritisation and severity
• Financial modelling and statutory reporting platforms
• 7+ years of direct experience of finance software implementations
• Working understanding of accounting principles and EPM solutions
• 5+ years previous experience in a Global business environment
• 5+ years working in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner or BA
• Experience with OneStream beneficial
• Experience in extracting and analysing data from financial systems
• Demonstrable experience in agile delivery

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT