Lead Business Analyst

Description

Leads the translation of business and finance requirements into high-quality functional solutions, with a focus on the HFM application stack. Ensures alignment between finance, IT, and data processes to deliver accurate, controlled, and scalable financial reporting and consolidation capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements and Stakeholder Management

• Lead the elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business and system requirements across finance and IT stakeholders
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and working sessions to define clear, testable requirements
• Ensure full traceability from requirements through to delivery and testing
• Act as the primary liaison between Finance and Technology teams

HFM Functional and Process Expertise

• Drive analysis and solution design across the HFM lifecycle including:
  • Data integration (source systems to HFM)
  • Metadata management (entities, accounts, hierarchies)
  • Consolidation processes (intercompany eliminations, journals, FX translation)
  • Reporting outputs and disclosures
• Support month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring system readiness and issue resolution
• Translate finance requirements into HFM rules, calculations, and functional specifications

Data and Impact Analysis

• Analyse financial and operational data to identify trends, risks, and business impacts
• Assess upstream and downstream impacts of changes across the finance data ecosystem
• Ensure data integrity, reconciliation, and alignment across systems

Process Improvement and “As Is / To Be” Design

• Document current and future-state processes across finance and reporting landscapes
• Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements aligned to best practice
• Support continuous improvement of consolidation, reporting, and control processes

Solution Design and Delivery

• Contribute to solution design, ensuring alignment to architecture, data standards, and governance
• Define functional specifications for HFM enhancements and integrations
• Support Agile delivery including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and prioritisation

Testing and Quality Assurance

• Define test strategies, scenarios, and acceptance criteria
• Lead UAT for finance systems, ensuring business sign-off and readiness
• Validate that solutions meet functional, data, and reporting requirements

Governance, Risk and Compliance

• Ensure solutions comply with financial controls, audit requirements, and regulatory standards
• Support documentation required for audit and governance reviews
• Maintain strong control over financial data accuracy and reporting integrity

Experience and Skills

• 5 to 8 years’ experience in Business Analysis within Banking, Financial Services, or Insurance
• Strong experience with Oracle HFM / Hyperion stack and finance consolidation processes
• Solid understanding of financial reporting, group consolidation, and finance controls
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments

Proven capability in data analysis, solution design, testing, and stakeholder management

Package & Remuneration

Market Related

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