Senior Finance Systems Business Analyst - 18 Month FTC

The Opportunity

The Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) oversees and delivers a portfolio of programs and initiatives aligned to the Firm's strategic goals.

Reporting to the Principal Business Analyst with a dotted line to the Finance Integration Lead, the role will be responsible for supporting a programme of work within the Finance Department with a focus on process design, reporting design, business analysis, reporting specifications development, and data touch points.

This is a full time, 18 month FTC role that can be based in either our Glasgow office or our London office with hybrid working.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the analysis, validation, and verification of requirements, ensuring they are complete, traceable, and unambiguous.
• Gather requirements using various techniques such as interviews, workshops, use cases, scenarios, and UX designs.
• Facilitate prioritisation of requirements based on business value.
• Manage and enhance user requirements or product backlogs, and oversee changes using change control processes and tools.
• Design and document end-to-end business processes, identifying opportunities for optimization and standardization.
• Develop reporting requirements and specifications, working with stakeholders to define key metrics, data sources, and output formats.
• Identify and document data touch points across systems and processes, ensuring data integrity and alignment with business needs.
• Produce detailed functional and technical specifications to support solution development and implementation.
• Liaise with workstream leads to ensure solutions and plans align with business requirements.
• Work with third-party suppliers to communicate requirements and ensure solutions meet quality standards.
• Communicate effectively with business areas to define system requirements or processes.
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• Collaborate with the wider project team, including business stakeholders, project managers, communications, training, testing, development, and architecture teams.

Essential skills and experience:

• Extensive experience as a Business Analyst in customer-facing roles, specialising in finance project delivery with proven track record in complex, large-scale business transformation projects, ideally in global organisations
• Strong numerical and excel skills, with corporate financial literacy
• Ability to build requirements supporting financial data models, processes, and reports
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans to achieve desired outcomes
• Able to influence, engage, and manage stakeholders at all levels
• Highly organized, able to prioritize diverse workloads, and work independently to meet deadlines
• Effective collaborator, experienced in working with remote, global teams
• Excellent oral and written communication; strong interpersonal abilities to bring clarity to complex operational environment
• Tactful and diplomatic under pressure
• Strong problem-solving, planning, and decision-making skills.
• Capable of analysing, challenging, and modelling new business processes and procedures
• Extensive experience with technology and IT projects.
• Proficient in BA methodologies, tools, and techniques
• Advanced user of MS Office suite, and familiar with MS DevOps, Jira, and Confluence
• Experienced in structured project framework
• Knowledgeable in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Desired skills and experience:

• Extensive experience as a Business Analyst in customer-facing roles, specialising in finance project delivery with proven track record in complex, large-scale business transformation projects, ideally in global organisations
• Strong numerical and excel skills, with corporate financial literacy
• Ability to build requirements supporting financial data models, processes, and reports
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans to achieve desired outcomes
• Able to influence, engage, and manage stakeholders at all levels
• Highly organized, able to prioritize diverse workloads, and work independently to meet deadlines
• Effective collaborator, experienced in working with remote, global teams
• Excellent oral and written communication; strong interpersonal abilities to bring clarity to complex operational environment
• Tactful and diplomatic under pressure
• Strong problem-solving, planning, and decision-making skills.
• Capable of analysing, challenging, and modelling new business processes and procedures
• Extensive experience with technology and IT projects.
• Proficient in BA methodologies, tools, and techniques
• Advanced user of MS Office suite, and familiar with MS DevOps, Jira, and Confluence
• Experienced in structured project framework
• Knowledgeable in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

We offer you all the things you should expect from an international law firm, some of which include:

• competitive remuneration with the flexibility to reward high performance;
• flexible working;
• corporate health plans;
• a global professional development offering for all employees; and
• an industry-leading programme that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

We are committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme.

We aim to recruit, retain and promote the best people from the widest possible talent pools. We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming environment for all employees to ensure they are supported to work at their best.

Beyond this, what sets Ashurst apart from others is our global strength, our drive to innovate and collaborate, and our commitment to excellence. It is these values that make Ashurst a unique place to work.