Business Analyst

About the job

Colehouse – who are we?

Founded in 2022, we are a rapidly growing and dynamic change consultancy committed to delivering outstanding solutions for our clients. As we continue to grow and evolve, we’re excited about the opportunities ahead— and we’d love for you to be part of our story!

What you'll do

We need some one who has been a Business Analyst within Investment Banking, with accounting systems and Finance and Change experience. In this role, you will be producing business requirements to inform future state design, supporting teams in understanding the requirements and their linkages to the overall domain strategy. In the course of your work, we’ll also look to you to build, manage and maintain a positive working relationship with stakeholders and third party suppliers across multiple franchises and functions.

You’ll also be:

• Supporting others to articulate the ideas and requirements in the format required by the team, such as use cases, user journeys, user stories and illustrations
• Capturing, validating and documenting business and system requirements and making sure that they’re in line with key strategic principles
• Interacting with customers, key stakeholders and the team to obtain and document functional and non-functional needs
• Analysing existing system documentation to summarise existing system functionality as it relates to the work at hand
• Supporting the identification of team priorities based upon feedback from the customers, key stakeholders and the team
• Extensive unit, system integration and UAT testing of product accounting outputs from Finance systems
• Implementation of front to back data and process controls to ensure ledger results are accurate and substantiated

The skills you'll need

Investment Banking, Finance and Change experience. We’ll look to you to bring a good understanding of Agile values, principles and methodologies with experience of working within an Agile environment. Additionally, you’ll need to hold an appropriate business analyst certification.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of applying business analysis tools and techniques
• Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Good understanding of accounting systems, accounting events, accounting rules, and experience in product accounting testing would be ideal
• Strong Investment Banking background with experience in a Finance Change Function preferable