Overview
We are seeking a Finance & Forecasting Business Analyst to support discovery and requirements-definition in the defence sector. The successful candidate will collaborate with Finance, Planning, Operational, and Technology stakeholders to analyse financial modelling and forecasting requirements, while leading workshops to improve current processes. This is a hybrid role requiring presence on-site for two days a week.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery workshops with Finance, Planning, Operational and Technology stakeholders.
- Analyse financial modelling, forecasting and affordability requirements.
- Review current processes, manual activities and spreadsheet-based ways of working.
- Decompose Epics into Features, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
- Define functional, non-functional, business, data and integration requirements.
- Assess data sources, ownership, quality, dependencies and lineage.
- Identify business rules, risks, assumptions and constraints.
- Produce a prioritised delivery backlog and maintain full requirements traceability.
Requirements
- Strong Business Analyst experience with a focus on financial processes.
- Experience in planning, forecasting, budgeting, or cost modelling.
- Knowledge of financial transformation methodologies.
- Ability to lead workshops and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
- Understanding of data sources and quality assessment in financial contexts.
- Experience in decomposing requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Clear understanding of business rules and requirements traceability.