Business Analyst

Shape the future of how we work. Join Buro Happold as a Business Analyst. This person can be based in our Bath, London, Leeds or Manchester office on a hybrid working model. At Buro Happold, we’re growing and with that growth comes the opportunity to rethink, refine, and improve how we operate. We’re looking for a Business Process Improvement Analyst to join our expanding Business Process Improvement (BPI) Team, playing a key role in driving change across our systems and processes.

About The Role

This is a hands-on position where you’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business to identify opportunities, with a focus on finance processes and projects (FP&A, Budgeting, AP, AR, Year End, electronic banking and invoicing) solving problems, and driving meaningful change. You’ll manage a pipeline of initiatives, ensuring priorities are aligned with business needs and delivering outcomes that support both operational efficiency and long-term growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver business and system improvement projects and initiatives with a specific focus on Finance processes.
• Analyse business needs, systems, and processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Elicit, document, and manage business and system requirements.
• Map as is and to be processes and recommend practical solutions.
• Act as the link between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Specify technical requirements and work with the technical teams to deliver solutions.
• Oversee system and user testing to ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Prepare and deliver user training.
• Support the communication, roll out, and adoption of initiatives.

Your skills and experience:

• At least 5 years' experience working as a business analyst with a strong focus on Finance operations.
• Knowledge of key finance operations processes including Year End, Month End, AP, AR, invoicing, P2P, budgeting, FP&A.
• Experience delivering projects or change initiatives of varying scale end-to-end.
• Familiar working with business systems (e.g. ERP, CRM, reporting tools).
• Proven experience analysing and improving business systems and processes.
• Skilled in requirements engineering and process mapping.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interrogate data.
• Adept at translating business needs into clear, structured requirements for delivery teams.
• Ability to present complex information clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with a strong ability to influence.
• Strong IT skills and ability to quickly learn new systems.
• BCS qualification or equivalent.

Why Join Buro Happold?

At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.

What we Offer You:

• Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
• A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere. A place for everyone. Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.