Finance Business Analyst Consultant

The Finance IT Business Analyst main responsibility is to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for change to finance business processes, policies and information systems related to our global finance initiatives.
The BA should understand finance business processes, problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements, and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
The role works closely with the IT build teams, clarifying requirements, working on the solution design and validating the development (SIT, UAT)
Main areas of focus and accountability of the role
• Serves as primary, systems point-of-contact for our internal customers of finance.
• Assists in analysis, definition, and then documents detailed requirement specifications for new solutions, for changes to existing systems and/or new functionality
• Ensures delivered solution meet the requirements and productivity levels are reached in an effective and efficient manner and maintaining quality performance objectives
• Participate in preparation for solution’s User Acceptance Testing and ensures proper coverage of test cases
• Pro-actively & continuously seeks to improve the highest level of service from the application(s)
• Effectively identify and escalate issues as appropriate
• Supports effective release management with IT and ensures both implementation and operations are aware of updated features.

Education and Qualifications
• Equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree in business management or IT
• At least 5 years of experience
• Proven track record in systems projects
• Fluent in English
• Ability to understand and document customer’s internal and external processes, policies & systems
• Broad view of the business with in depth understanding of business strategy, operating processes and capabilities, business process standardization, enabling technologies, and governance
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected processes and procedures and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business needs
• Strong affinity with IT finance systems and the related impact/benefits to solution design
• Strong situational analysis and problem-solving abilities
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Team player
• Ability to work well under pressure

Work arrangement: hybrid in Madrid (4–5 days in the office).