Finance Business Analyst Consultant

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Summary: This role involves acting as a liaison among stakeholders to define and validate requirements for finance business process changes and IT systems, ensuring solutions meet organizational goals. Highlights: 1. Serves as primary system point-of-contact for internal finance customers 2. Assists in defining detailed requirement specifications for new solutions 3. Ensures delivered solutions meet requirements and productivity levels **Company Description** **Devoteam is a leading European consultancy focused on digital strategy, technology platforms, cybersecurity, and business transformation through technology.** Concentrated on six areas of specialization, we address our clients' strategic challenges: Digital Business & Products, Data-driven Intelligence, Distributed Cloud, Business Automation, Cybersecurity, and Sustainability Achieved Through Digitalization. Technology is in our DNA, and we believe in it as a lever capable of driving change to improve, while maintaining a balance that allows us to offer our clients top-tier technological tools—always with the proximity and professionalism of a team that acts as a guide throughout the journey. Our **25 years of experience** make us an innovative, established, and mature consultancy, enabling the development of our **10,000 professionals**, continuously certifying our consultants in the latest technologies and counting on experts in: Cloud, BI, Data Analytics, Business Process Excellence, Customer Relationship Management, Cybersecurity, Digital Marketing, Machine Learning, Software Engineering and Development. Devoteam has been awarded Partner of the Year 2021 by the five leading cloud providers: **AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow.** \#CreativeTechnologyForBetterChange **Job Description** The Finance IT Business Analyst’s main responsibility is to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes 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 finance customers. * Assists in analysis, definition, and then documents detailed requirement specifications for new solutions, for changes to existing systems and/or new functionality * Ensures delivered solutions meet the requirements and productivity levels are reached in an effective and efficient manner and maintaining quality performance objectives * Participates 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 identifies and escalates issues as appropriate * Supports effective release management with IT and ensures both implementation and operations are aware of updated features. Work arrangement: hybrid in Madrid (4–5 days in the office). **Requirements** 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