Finance Business Analyst / Process Designer (Contract) in City of Westminster

We're looking for an experienced Contract Finance Business Analyst / Process Designer to join a high-profile operational transformation programme.

Reporting into the Programme and Finance workstreams, this role involves working hands‑on in validating current‑state processes, defining credible future‑state processes, and shaping AI‑enabled workflows for our Transactional Finance wave.

Responsibilities

• Validate and refine existing as‑is process flows for Accounts Payable, bank reconciliation, and repayments, mapping out pain points, controls, handoffs, and role effort.
• Design pragmatic future‑state finance workflows that improve control, reduce manual effort, and tackle decentralised purchasing and spend visibility issues.
• Execute SAP optimisation assessments, identifying where standard SAP functionality, configuration, or process discipline can address business needs without custom code.
• Define practical agentic AI and automation opportunities, building in required human‑in‑the‑loop controls, exception handling and safe fallback routes.
• Support the benefits baseline and sign‑off logic, directly linking process changes to time saved, role impact, and run‑rate savings.
• Produce delivery‑ready backlogs, including clear business requirements, process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering and platform teams.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, running structured workshops across Finance SMEs, Procurement, Technology and external platform partners.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands‑on finance process experience with deep domain knowledge across AP/P2P (three‑way matching), invoice processing and bank reconciliations.
• Proven expertise mapping complex workflows, using BPMN, swim‑lanes or equivalent process design notation to turn raw discovery data into structured blueprints.
• Practical SAP experience, ideally working with legacy SAP versions (ECC) where the primary focus is process optimisation before custom tool selection.
• Commercial and benefits realisation awareness, with a track record of connecting process improvements to hard metrics such as role effort, headcount capacity and run‑rate savings.
• Experience identifying automation or AI use cases within finance, balancing digital process design with strict finance controls and segregation of duties.
• Ability to develop workflows iteratively, balancing short‑term transactional pain points with long‑term target operating model assumptions.
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