Finance Consolidation Business Analyst - Hybrid Working - Outside IR35 Our client, a global Insurance company, are currently looking to hire a Business Analyst with Finance Consolidation project experience to join the team on a hybrid working contract basis with the client site based in London. Systems Experience: • OneStream • CCH Tagetik • Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) This role operates within the Finance Change Team and is crucial to redevelopment of the OneStream Architecture leveraging the capabilities of the OneStream MI solution, facilitating and writing requirements, acceptance criteria and validating solution implementation. The project is adopting a hybrid agile delivery by a third party, and the role will manage the product backlog and facilitate UAT and Business Acceptance testing phases of delivery. Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities • Facilitate and write requirements and acceptance criteria for Epics and Stories • Ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are approved by stakeholders • Review proposed solution designs meet the requirement and acceptance criteria and ensure their acceptance • Support the formulation and acceptance of key design decisions • Validate implementation across sprint reviews and all testing phases, and provide feedback and raise bugs, facilitating the capture of test cases and test evidence. • Facilitate and perform Data Reconciliation • Support and facilitate product backlog review, prioritisation and sizing sessions with the business and implementation team • Manage and refined the product backlog to ensure it reflects the most recent priorities and sizing • Support and facilitate the formulation of CRs and provide inputs into the impact assessment, cost benefits and recommendations • Conduct and facilitate defect triage to ensure bugs vs feedback are correctly identified and agreed for resolution and/or backlog prioritisation Knowledge and Experience • Strong influencing and negotiating skills • Good communication and presentation skills – ability to communicate clearly with a high degree of clarity and professionalism • Good understanding of project governance and lifecycle • Solid analytical and organisational skills with the ability to review, challenge and influence solutions and processes • Good numerical skills, confident using IT platforms to solve finance problems, conversant in the language of Finance from detail level up to C suite level • Experience of financial reporting requirements; covering either statutory reporting, management reporting, or financial planning • Able to operate on own initiative and be self-managing and work remotely • Ability to manage diverse stakeholder relationships across the organisation • Work collaboratively with 3rd Party consultants to deliver effective OneStream Financial Models • Good personal skills and ability to apply pragmatism and diplomacy when needed • Excellent requirements, Epics, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria specification • Managing agile product backlogs in scrum • Process and requirements modelling • Data Modelling of financial data and CUBE/Star Schema • Data Analysis Reconciliation • Defect triage and classification of bug prioritisation and severity • Financial modelling and statutory reporting platforms Knowledge and Experience 1. 7+ years of direct experience of finance software implementations and delivery finance MI requirements 1. Working understanding of the principles of accounting and EPM solutions 1. 5+ years previous experience of working in a Global business environment 1. 5+ years working in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner or BA 1. Experience with OneStream beneficial 1. Experience in extracting and analysing data from financial systems 1. Demonstrable experience in agile delivery Please apply!