Summary: The role of Business Analyst in the Finance domain requires expertise in finance processes and knowledge of AWS to support finance transformation and cloud migration initiatives. The candidate will collaborate with business users and technical teams to define requirements and optimize processes for cloud-enabled financial solutions. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills are essential for success in this position. The role is hybrid and based in Greater London, England.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Deep Dive into Use Cases from a business perspective, confirming complexity and impact/value.
- Interview stakeholders and outline required data from the client to accelerate use case analysis.
- Dive deep on functional and non-functional requirements, business value, and capabilities.
- Work with finance stakeholders to understand business needs, regulatory requirements, and process gaps.
- Translate business requirements into BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
- Ensure strong stakeholder management and maintain communication between business units, IT teams, and cloud specialists.
- Prepare project documentation, training materials, and support knowledge transfer.
Key Skills:
- 5–10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within the Finance domain.
- Strong understanding of finance processes: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting, Tax, etc.
- Hands-on knowledge of AWS cloud concepts, architecture, and services.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum or hybrid delivery environments.
- Proficiency in tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Visio, Lucidchart, Excel, and SQL.
- Ability to create BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process maps, and data flow diagrams.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot issues and interpret financial data.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Greater London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Finance
Job Title: Business Analyst – Finance Domain with AWS Knowledge.
Location: Hybrid
Duration: Contract
Role Overview: We are seeking a skilled Business Analyst with strong Finance domain expertise and working knowledge of AWS to support finance transformation, cloud migration, and digital modernization initiatives. The ideal candidate will work closely with business users, finance SMEs, and technical teams to define requirements, optimize processes, and support cloud-enabled financial solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsibility: Lead the Deep Dive into the Use Cases from business perspective, confirming complexity, impact/value to appropriate standards. Include interviewing stakeholders as well as clearly outlining required data from Client. Aim is to help accelerate time to complete use case analysis and provide Client with more room to build out the appropriate architecture/roadmap...bringing deliverables forward.
- Person is also expected to dive deep on functional and non -function requirements as well as business value and capabilities. Experience with AWS is needed.
- Work with finance stakeholders to understand business needs, regulatory requirements, and process gaps.
- Translate business requirements into BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
- Ensure strong stakeholder management, maintaining communication between business units, IT teams, and cloud specialists.
- Prepare project documentation, training materials, and support knowledge transfer.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5–10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within the Finance domain.
- Strong understanding of finance processes: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting, Tax, etc.
- Hands-on knowledge of AWS cloud concepts, architecture, and services (not necessarily expert-level).
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum or hybrid delivery environments.
- Proficiency in tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Visio, Lucidchart, Excel, and SQL.
- Ability to create BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process maps, and data flow diagrams.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot issues and interpret financial data.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Cloud Practitioner or higher certification
- Experience with finance systems (Oracle, SAP, Workday, Netsuite, or others)
- Experience with cloud migration, data analytics, or finance transformation programmes
- Background in working with modern data platforms or BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, AWS QuickSight)
Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Stakeholder management at senior and operational levels
- Ability to work independently and within cross-functional teams
- Attention to detail and a continuous-improvement mindset
