Finance Business Analyst ERP/NetSuite

Role: Finance Business Analyst (ERP/NetSuite) - outside IR35

Location: Crawley/Remote

Role type: Contract

Duration: 12 months+

Start date: ASAP

Rate: £500-525pd (outside IR35)

Our client is seeking an experienced Finance Business Analyst who will drive the implementation and adoption of a new finance ERP system (NetSuite) across all geographical locations of the business. Fully remote. Our client is an award winning & thriving International pharmaceutical company are undergoing a major business transformation programme. This exciting opportunity requires candidates from a blue-chip background who can make a positive contribution to the business.

The Role as Finance Business Analyst:

• Facilitate workshops with key business stakeholders to:
  • Gather as-is issues and challenges currently experienced.
  • Discuss, agree and document the to-be processes
  • Provide input and insight into best practice
• Perform a gap analysis against existing systems, BRD, Process Mapping, Traceability Matrix
• Requirements gathering and specification skills - including standard approaches for assimilation and presentation
• Conduct requirements elicitation and prioritisation with business stakeholders and the delivery team including functional, non-functional & technical requirements and Testing (UAT scripts and manage UAT activities) where necessary
• Strong analytical skills, ability to understand problem domain and express complexity in clear terms to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• The ability to translate business requirements into detailed functional design either using UML (UseCases, Activity/State Diagrams, Process Mapping, Work Shops)
• Stakeholder (internal/external) relationship management
• Create and manage functional specification together with creative, user experience and technical stakeholders
• Support project manager during project planning and delivery, including estimation, risk management, briefing of technical and quality assurance teams, issue resolution, client status updates and testing

The Candidate

In addition to excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, you should possess strong collaboration and people management skills, be a pragmatic person and highly focused on delivery.

• Strong knowledge of Finance Systems (Netsuite, Workday, Dynamics, SAP or similar)
• Waterfall & Agile Experience
• Proven experience in gathering business and functional requirements through a variety of methods, interacting directly with end users and senior business stakeholders alike.
• Ideally CIMA, ACCA or FCCA qualified
• Experience in writing UAT scripts and manage UAT activities
• End to end experience of the systems project life cycle, with proven experience of delivering projects using different methodologies
• Demonstrable evidence of documenting and analysing complex business processes.
• Previous experience of delivering digital projects encompassing both website and mobile application development.
• Demonstrable experience writing requirements specifications for Information Systems
• A flexible approach, with the ability to quickly adapt to changes in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as customer service skills.