Financial Business Analyst

Role: Finance Business Analyst

Timings 2pm to 11pm IST

Years of experience: 8+ years

Remote

Role Overview

The Business Analyst partners closely with Finance and Procurement stakeholders to understand business problems, explore needs and shape effective outcomes. Using strong engagement, facilitation, analysis, process modelling and requirements management skills, the role builds shared understanding, challenges assumptions and connects business and delivery teams to achieve measurable value.

Responsibilities

Key accountabilities include, but are not limited to:

Stakeholder Engagement & Needs Discovery

• Build trusted partnerships with Finance and Procurement stakeholders, acting as a key link between the business and delivery teams.
• Engage stakeholders to understand their goals, challenges and underlying needs, using curiosity and constructive challenge to explore problems before defining solutions.
• Plan and maintain effective stakeholder engagement throughout discovery, delivery and adoption.

Facilitation & Business Analysis

• Facilitate workshops and discussions that encourage participation, uncover insight and build agreement across differing viewpoints.
• Analyse business situations to identify root causes, opportunities, constraints and desired outcomes.
• Use appropriate analysis and modelling techniques to create shared understanding and support informed decisions.

Process Improvement

• Work with stakeholders to understand current processes, identify improvement opportunities and assess options for change.
• Apply suitable process improvement methods to shape practical recommendations that improve efficiency, effectiveness and user experience.

Requirements & Backlog Management

• Translate validated business needs into clear, prioritised requirements and outcomes aligned with business objectives.
• Manage the Finance and Procurement DevOps backlog, ensuring proposed work is understood, assessed, prioritised and communicated.
• Validate requirements and proposed solutions with stakeholders to maintain shared understanding and reduce ambiguity and rework.

Decision Support & Information Management

• Support decision-making by presenting clear evidence, options, impacts and recommendations.
• Capture and communicate relevant business and technical information at the level needed to maintain alignment across stakeholders.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior business and IT leaders.
• Strong facilitation skills, with experience leading workshops and discussions that uncover needs, encourage participation and build agreement.
• Demonstrable experience exploring business problems, challenging assumptions and identifying underlying needs before defining requirements or solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex information, identify root causes and present clear recommendations.
• Practical knowledge of business analysis techniques, including business situation analysis, process modelling, requirements management and option assessment.
• Experience working in structured delivery environments, such as Agile or DevOps, and collaborating with delivery teams through iterative change.
• Experience working with enterprise systems and platforms, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform or similar ecosystems.

Desirable

• Experience working in Finance and Procurement, with an understanding of relevant processes, controls and operational challenges.
• Experience supporting or contributing to the development of business analysis standards, frameworks, or governance models.
• Knowledge of process improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma) and their practical application.
• Experience working in global or cross-functional environments, managing stakeholders across multiple regions or business units.
• Familiarity with data and reporting tools (e.g. Power BI) and an understanding of how data supports decision-making.
• Awareness of emerging technologies such as AI-enabled solutions and their application within business processes.

Measures of Success

Success in this role will be demonstrated through:

• Strong stakeholder relationships, demonstrated through trust, active engagement and positive feedback.
• Effective facilitation that encourages participation, builds shared understanding and enables agreement.
• Clear understanding of business problems, needs and desired outcomes before solutions are defined.
• High-quality analysis and requirements that support informed decisions and reduce ambiguity and rework.
• Effective prioritisation of work based on business value, need and strategic objectives.
• Measurable improvements in business processes, efficiency and user experience.
• Successful adoption of delivered changes and realisation of expected benefits.
• Contribution to the continuous improvement of business analysis practices and ways of working.