Business Analyst

Role: Business Analyst – E-Invoicing Location: Manchester, UK Contract: 12 Months/ Hybrid Experience: 6–10 Years Rate: £450–500/day (Inside IR35) We're hiring a Business Analyst to support the implementation of a centralized, automated e-invoicing solution across Germany, the UK, and Poland for a leading UK telecommunications company. This role focuses on gathering business and regulatory requirements, defining future-state processes, and ensuring compliance with German B2B e-invoicing regulations, GoBD, multi-VAT scenarios, and upcoming EU ViDA standards. Key Responsibilities • Gather and document business, functional, tax, and compliance requirements • Assess current invoice-receiving, validation, processing, and archiving processes • Define future-state e-invoicing processes and workflows • Support structured invoice formats such as XRechnung and ZUGFeRD • Capture requirements across multi-entity, multi-country, and multi-VAT scenarios • Ensure GoBD-compliant archiving and non-recoverable input tax scenarios are covered • Coordinate with Finance, Tax, AP, Compliance, IT, and implementation teams • Prepare process flows, user stories, functional specs, and acceptance criteria • Support solution design, testing, defect resolution, deployment, and business readiness • Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and compliance risk Required Skills & Experience • 6–10 years as a Business Analyst, ideally within Finance, Tax, or AP transformation • Strong understanding of invoicing, VAT, AP, and financial processes • Experience with e-invoicing, tax compliance, or finance transformation programmes • Knowledge of German B2B e-invoicing regulations, XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, and GoBD preferred • Experience with SAP, ERP, invoice management, or tax technology solutions • Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, documentation, and analytical skills Preferred • Multi-country European implementation experience • Knowledge of EU ViDA regulations and digital tax reporting • Agile/hybrid delivery experience • Exposure to automation, workflow, OCR, or AI-driven invoice processing