Finance and Procurement Business Analyst for NATO with security clearance
WLG · London, England, United Kingdom
Financial Services · 2-10 employees
About the role
Drive process improvement and ERP solution delivery across financial and procurement functions for NATO's DIANA. This includes analyzing workflows, eliciting business requirements, and supporting the full implementation lifecycle from design to user adoption.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree and 3 years of related experience, or 10 years of extensive expertise. Candidates must have proven experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&O, MS Power Platform, and Agile methodologies.
Full description
Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization?
This Finance and Procurement Business Analyst position is a key role within DIANA, responsible for driving process improvement and ERP solution delivery across financial and procurement functions. The role encompasses the full business analysis lifecycle, from analysing current workflows and identifying inefficiencies, to eliciting requirements, supporting implementation, and ensuring successful user adoption.
Responsibilities:
- Analyse current financial and procurement processes to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement. Collaborate with stakeholders to map and redesign workflows, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and best practices.
- Identify business needs and translate them into elicit, documented and validated business requirements through workshops, interviews, and analysis. Translate these requirements into clear functional specifications and user stories for technical teams, ensuring solutions meet business needs.
- Support project delivery by coordinating requirements management, assisting with planning, and tracking progress. Facilitate communication between business and technical teams to ensure timely and successful implementation of ERP solutions.
- Engage with key users, business leaders, and other stakeholders to gather input, provide updates, and manage expectations. Foster collaboration and ensure all parties are informed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Assist in developing and executing change management plans to support user adoption of new systems and processes. Provide training, create user guides, and offer ongoing support to ensure a smooth transition.
- Participate in system configuration, data migration, and testing activities, including user acceptance testing (UAT). Develop comprehensive documentation, including process flows and functional specifications, to support implementation and future enhancements.
- Support project delivery from start to finish, ensuring goals are met on time and within budget, whilst working in an agile manner, such as adopting the Scrum framework.
- Provide end-user and technical team How to Guides and training on developed features and produce structured documentation and reporting that outlines implementation steps, system behavior, and key technical considerations.
Essential Qualifications & Experience:
- A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience. Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to DX, that is, at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
- Proven experience working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) and MS Power Platform, including business process analysis, requirements gathering, and solution specification.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse, map, and optimize financial and procurement processes; experience developing business cases and functional specifications.
- Experience supporting ERP project delivery, including requirements management, planning, and progress tracking.
- Strong skills in facilitating workshops, interviews, and stakeholder communications.
- Experience in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist in the capture, refinement and tracking fulfillment of user requirements.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the use of AI to develop modern Agentic solutions for common business problems
- Experience assisting with change management activities, user training, and adoption of new systems.
- Hands-on involvement in system configuration, data migration, testing (including UAT), and documentation.
- Familiarity with system integration, data migration, and configuration within ERP environments.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum project environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
- Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate or similar certification.
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