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The successful candidate will work with stakeholders to understand and analyse complex finance-related processes, data flows and system integration. Plan and facilitate meetings, workshops and other activities to elicit the information needed from technical specialists and stakeholders.

Client Details

The client sits within the Higher Education space.

Description

Key responsibilities:

Take responsibility for business analysis activities on the project - planning and managing the analysis work to fit in with wider project plans.
Manage the elicitation, documentation, prioritisation, validation and sign-off of business and technical requirements and their acceptance criteria.
Work with stakeholders to analyse, model and document finance-related business processes, data flows, systems, and system integration.
Plan, manage and facilitate on-site, hybrid and remote meetings, interviews, workshops and other business analysis activities.
Analyse information gathered from multiple stakeholders, pro-actively identifying gaps, resolving conflicts and challenging constructively when needed.
Work with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria for requirements.
Work with the IT systems lead, data and enterprise architects to ensure that analysis outputs meet with ITS standards.
Prepare user acceptance testing scenarios and test cases.
Support user acceptance testing activities, liaising between users, stakeholders, and development teams.
Collaborate with the project manager to identify and log project risks and contribute to project highlight reporting as required.
Ensure that the analysis adheres to all relevant policies and systems, ensuring any audit requirements and institutional standards are met.
Set up and lead multi-disciplinary groups as and when required.
Communicate effectively with stakeholders throughout the project.
Present findings, updates, or reports both verbally and in written format, to key stakeholders, senior managers, the project team and/or project board.Profile

The successful candidate will have the following experience:

Proven experience as a business analyst working on previous complex technical migration/transformation projects
Previous experience of carrying out business analysis on projects involving finance/ERP systems and for cloud migrations
Significant experience of systems and process analysis including producing diagrams, maps and models, documenting data flows and system integration
Previous experience of all aspects of business analysis including requirements elicitation, documentation, prioritisation and validation, definition of acceptance criteria and data analysis
Experience of facilitating on-site, hybrid and remote meetings workshops, meetings and interviews.
Experience of working on multiple workstreams/projects at the same time within a complex programmeDesirable skills/experience:

Experience as a business analyst in a Higher Education environment
Experience of Unit 4 / AgressoJob Offer

This role is an initial contract through to end of July 2025 but may be extended.

It is a hybrid role requiring 60% of the time on-site in Liverpool with 40% of the time remote.

It is also outside IR35