Business Analyst (Finance & Financial Ops)

As an experienced IT Business Analyst within the Finance & Financial Operations domain, you will be involved in a key global transformation programme. As a member of the product team, working autonomously and within a team, you will play a pivotal role working with business stakeholders and technical teams alike in driving change and efficiency across the organisation., Business Analysis and Delivery:

• Plan, deliver, and assure business analysis deliverables for workstreams.
• Drive and manage scope and design for workstreams, assessing risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solutions.
• Lead business requirement gathering and documentation for prioritised enhancements, projects, and defects in the change management repository.
• Ensure solutions meet design-to-operate principles and plan effective transitions to operations.
Stakeholder Management:
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, keeping them informed and managing expectations.
• Ensure transparent communication with business collaborators throughout the lifecycle of change and release management processes.
• Maintain and build key relationships with external IT teams and internal business collaborators.
Innovation and improvement:
• Generate innovative approaches to existing problems or new opportunities.
• Standardize and reinforce processes for eliciting requirements, designing, and validating system functionality.
• Ensure solutions deliver benefits aligned with longer-term strategic goals.
Technical Skills and coordination:
• Operate as a Business Analyst across functions, translating business needs into functional designs for technical teams.
• Capture and prioritize features and functionality within the delivery backlog.
• Ensure developed items meet business requirements before formal release management cycles.
Project and change management:
• Lead backlog grooming activities as part of scrum prioritization.
• Coordinate change across different delivery teams, managing conflicting priorities.
• Ensure strategic alignment with IT projects, goals, and architecture.
• Manage functional delivery through various digital disciplines, securing business sign-off for solutions.
  
  Proven experience in utilisation of data-driven analysis and modeling to prototype problem solutions.
• Detailed knowledge of financial reporting requirements in a trading environment.
• Experience operating within commodities and/or financial markets and associated Trading processes.
• Proven experience working with Finance and/or Treasury systems.
• Exposure to the full trade lifecycle with a focus on Finance, Financial Operations & Treasury functions.
• Demonstrable experience in coordinating complex change.
• Delivered change under both waterfall and agile SDLC methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Diligent and dependable with strong integrity
  
  Our mission is to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy by providing innovative financial solutions to our clients.
We are not just any energy and sustainability group; we're a dynamic, award-winning powerhouse! At the forefront of environmental innovation, we lead the charge in providing cutting-edge solutions for large-scale energy consumers. From guiding small businesses to corporate giants on their journey to achieve net zero emissions to expertly managing risks and supplying vital power and gas resources, we do it all. But wait, there's more! We're not content with just excelling in our current ventures - we thrive on pioneering new businesses and seizing energy investment opportunities., The CF Group is committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity and respect, and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all employees/contractors and job applicants.


• 25 days annual leave in addition to Bank holidays.
• Hybrid working pattern; 3 days a week in the office and 2 days remote.
• Discretionary commission/bonus scheme.
• Company pension scheme.
• Life and medical insurance, and eyecare scheme.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Family-friendly policies.
• Recruit and Reward scheme.
• Access to perk-box benefits package.