Senior Business Analyst - Finance Controls & SOX Compliance in Cheshire, Warrington

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies. Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings.

Our Client is one of the world's longest standing general insurers, providing peace of mind to individuals and families, and protecting small businesses and large corporations from uncertainty for more than 305 years. They provide award-winning personal, commercial and specialty insurance products and services direct-to-customers, via brokers and affinity partners.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a Senior Business Analyst - Finance Controls & SOX Compliance for a 12 month contract based remotely with occasional travel to Liverpool.

Purpose of the role: To support the enhancement of the Finance control environment within our insurance organisation. This role plays a key part in strengthening financial governance, ensuring process integrity, and supporting compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002. You will work closely with Finance and wider business stakeholders to document processes, assess risks, analyse controls, and help embed sustainable control improvements across the Finance function and wider business.

What you'll do:

• Support the design, enhancement, and documentation of Finance processes and controls to ensure alignment with SOX requirements.
• Assist in identifying gaps, weaknesses, and inefficiencies within the current control environment, recommending and supporting the implementation of robust remedial actions.
• Coordinate testing activities with relevant internal parties, ensuring timely provision of documentation and evidence.
• Track and monitor remediation actions, ensuring issues are resolved effectively and sustainably.
• Maintain and update process narratives, control matrices, risk assessments, and other SOX artefacts.
• Engage with process owners across Finance and business teams to understand end-to-end financial processes.
• Analyse existing workflows, systems, and data flows to identify opportunities to improve control design and operational efficiency.
• Support the development of standardised, well-controlled processes across financial reporting, reconciliations, accounting operations, and other core activities.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and process mapping sessions using recognised BA methodologies.
• Partner with Finance and Business leaders and subject-matter experts to ensure controls are practical, well-understood, and embedded into daily operations.
• Collaborate with IT teams to understand system dependencies, automated controls, and opportunities to strengthen technology-enabled controls.
• Confidently deliver training to key stakeholders to educate and upskill.
• Communicate clearly and confidently with stakeholders at all levels, presenting analysis, findings, and recommendations.

The skills you'll need:

• Experience as a Business Analyst in regulated environments.
• Excellent understanding of Finance processes.
• Proficiency in process mapping, documentation and analytical problem-solving.
• High-level Stakeholder management experience.
• Experience collaborating with audit teams/supporting audit cycles.

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model. If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.