Finance Business Systems Analyst in Thame

Overview

Job Purpose: Working with the wider Dynamics team, analyse business requirements, recommend solutions and lead local project teams to improve processes using Dynamics 365 and related software. Develop solutions to meet service levels and management information required by the business. Work with the Dynamics team implementing Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management in all Lucy Electric businesses to promote Group processes and standardisation.

Business Overview: Lucy Electric is an international leader in intelligent secondary power distribution products and solutions, with features such as remote operation and monitoring. Linking energy generation to consumption, the business specialises in high-performance medium and low-voltage switchgear for utility, industrial and commercial applications.

Job Context: Working closely with functional business analysts and the support & development team to ensure co-ordinated approach to solution provision. The role is primarily focussed on the financial functional areas of a manufacturing business.

Key Responsibilities and Dimensions

• Engage with the business to assess high level business needs and priorities, elicit business requirements, and prepare documentation and technical specifications.
• Act as a champion to enable modern business practices within the finance domain.
• Act as an advocate for the adoption of digital technologies and ensure business benefits are realised by measuring the impact of change within the business.
• Arrange and engage in rigorous User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Acceptance Into Service (AIS) testing.

Key Accountabilities:

• Engage with business to understand and capture business systems and information requirements efficiently.
• Enhance business engagement processes to develop positive stakeholder interaction.
• Prepare and maintain a tactical plan to address data management priorities.
• Facilitate meetings and develop communications to allow knowledge transfer.
• Logically deconstruct existing systems to understand synergies and opportunities.
• Contribute to the development of corporate business sensing through data insights.

Measures of success:

• Traceable, documented functional and non-functional business systems requirements.
• End-users have clarity on Business Engagement processes and service provision.
• Visible and relevant data management workstreams to provide robust business insight.
• Informed stakeholders through a collaborative participatory approach.
• Systems schematics presented to enable informed enterprise architecture decision making.
• Swift resolution of issues raised by the business.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience

• Preferably CCAB or CIMA qualified (or working towards).
• Sound business requirements elicitation, knowledge acquisition and project management skills evidenced by qualifications or experience.
• 5 years implementing, supporting and enhancing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 / Dynamics 365.
• Experienced with the core financial modules (General ledger, Purchase ledger, Sales ledger, Fixed assets, Cash and bank management, and Project management and accounting).

Job Specific Skills:

• First class communication skills in the global Business Language, English.
• Ability to create detailed proposals, design documents, test scripts and facilitate meetings.
• General commercial awareness across the end-to-end value chain.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Sympathetic to the changing needs of business, while following appropriate process.
• Presenting insights to a range of stakeholders in an engaging and informative manner.

Desirable experience and skills:

• Experience of solution implementation, with the knowledge to challenge technical solutions.
• Process and data ecosystem mapping, data wrangling and coding familiarity.
• Business Intelligence and Data Governance knowledge.