Senior Business Analyst - Finance Transformation (Ftc)

Company Description
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Job Description
Please note this role is a Fixed Term contract, until the end of Nov 2024.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst with demonstrated skills and expertise working on medium to large-scale Finance transformation programs. The successful candidate will be a part of project team working closely with business stakeholders in Finance and Actuarial space gathering requirements, analysing current state, and designing target state processes, performing data analysis, and being a key liaison among business, project, system implementation, and IT teams, both internal and external.
YOUR KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate business requirements for the ERP SaaS transformation project & conduct thorough analysis of existing business processes and identify opportunities for improvement and optimization.

• Run workshops with multiple stakeholders to facilitate requirement elicitation and process analysis.

• Create detailed and clear documentation of business requirements, process flows, use cases, and functional specifications.

• Maintain comprehensive and organized documentation throughout the project lifecycle. Establish traceability from requirements to solution design and eventually to test cases.

• Serve as a primary point of contact between business and system implementation teams.

• Facilitate communication and understanding between technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Support test teams to ensure test plans, scenarios, cases adhere to requirements and collaborate with QA teams to support issue resolution.

• Assist in change management and review of user training material.

• Lead the analysis and mapping of data from legacy systems to the new ERP SaaS solution.

• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure accurate and timely data migration. Establish and maintain data integration processes between ERP modules and other systems

Qualifications

• Demonstrated practical experience in business analysis on medium to large-scale transformation programs
• Experience in Finance ERP, general ledger, and actuarial systems related projects and experience in dealing with Finance and Actuarial stakeholders
• Ability to engage stakeholders at various levels in the organisation, build rapport quickly and develop long-term relationships
• Ability to analyse and solve problems in a complex working environment
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to run workshops with multiple senior and business stakeholders
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, respond to short deadlines and effectively manage multiple priorities
• Experience in and understanding of Finance ERP and ledger related projects
• Experience in and understanding of the insurance industry/financial services sector
• Tertiary degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field preferred
• Must be a team player and able to work diverse teams to achieve success

Additional Information
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