At a Glance
- Tasks: Bridge Finance, Technology, and Data teams to deliver transformative finance solutions.
- Company: Rapidly growing specialty insurer with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a collaborative team dedicated to continuous improvement and data excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by optimising finance systems and processes in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in business analysis within finance systems and strong stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 £ per year.
We are currently partnering with a rapidly growing speciality Insurer to recruit a Finance Systems Business Analyst.
The successful candidate will support the Head of Finance Systems and wider Finance team in delivering finance systems, process and data transformation over a 12-month interim period.
Key responsibilities
- Act as a key bridge between Finance, Technology, and Data teams, ensuring Finance requirements are clearly understood and translated into practical, scalable solutions.
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the end-to-end Finance systems landscape, including system architecture, interactions, data flows, integrations, ownership models, and reporting dependencies.
- Support the delivery of the Finance Systems strategy through business analysis, requirements definition, process design, solution evaluation, and implementation support.
- Contribute to the development and ongoing evolution of the Finance Systems Blueprint by documenting the current-state architecture, identifying gaps, and supporting the design of the target-state operating model.
- Identify opportunities to simplify Finance processes, automate manual activities, strengthen controls, reduce complexity, and improve scalability.
- Define detailed business requirements, process maps, user stories, dependencies, decision points, data requirements, and implementation inputs for transformation initiatives.
- Support the development of Databricks as the single source of truth for Finance data, including data ownership, standards, governance, quality controls, and reporting requirements.
- Identify and coordinate the resolution of data issues, helping to improve data consistency, completeness, accuracy, reliability, and usability.
- Review Finance integrations and recommend improvements to ownership, monitoring, resilience, performance, and scalability.
- Partner with Finance, Technology, Data, Procurement, Human Resources, and external vendors to deliver effective system, data, reporting, and process improvements.
- Support the optimisation of key Finance platforms, including Net Suite and Concur, by assessing system capabilities, processes, controls, reporting, integrations, vendor roadmaps, and enhancement opportunities.
- Identify opportunities to improve Procure-to-Pay, travel and expense processes, automation, analytics, and reporting while reducing manual reconciliations, spreadsheet dependencies, and end-user computing solutions.
- Support testing, implementation, stakeholder adoption, benefits tracking, governance, and continuous improvement to ensure Finance technology investments deliver maximum value.
- Ideal candidate should have but not limited to
- Background working within the Insurance industry.
- Business analysis experience across Finance systems, data transformation or process improvement.
- Strong understanding of finance processes, controls, reporting, integrations and data flows.
- Skilled in requirements gathering, process mapping, documentation, and stakeholder management.
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Finance Systems Business Analyst employer: Weareedenbrook
Weareedenbrook is an excellent employer, offering a vibrant work culture in the heart of London that fosters collaboration and innovation. Employees benefit from comprehensive training and development opportunities, ensuring personal and professional growth within the dynamic insurance sector. With a focus on building strong relationships and a commitment to excellence, joining our team means being part of a supportive environment where your contributions are valued.
We think you need these skills to ace Finance Systems Business Analyst
Business Analysis
Finance Systems Knowledge
Data Transformation
Process Improvement
Requirements Gathering
Process Mapping
Stakeholder Management
