Business Analyst - inside IR35 -Leeds/Flexi working

NHS SBS is embarking a significant transformation of its business, building on its traditional business process services foundations to a create a digitally enabled, innovation driven organisation.
To support this NHS SBS is seeking Business Analysts with proven experience in Oracle Fusion Cloud financial across a range of subject areas. The successful candidates will be joining one of a number of dedicated Solution teams, each team brings together business SME's, IT developers and external expertise to work on a major NHS SBS ERP upgrade from Oracle R12 to Oracle Fusion Cloud.

Job purpose:
The Senior Business Analyst will undertake business analysis on high complexity, high risk, business critical projects. This may involve the management of a team of Business Analysts. May contribute to pre-sales assignments and proposals that may lead to significant revenue opportunities. Roles at this level achieve results and provide services either personally or through others in a specific area or discipline to meet defined quality or efficiency standards or to ensure best practice advice is given. Individuals possess the skills, knowledge and ability to perform and deliver without day-to-day supervision. They possess the ability to solve problems with commercial judgement and are influential in customer relationships. Roles at this level will require a detailed understanding of methods, systems, and procedures. The work involves limited guidance and only general instructions from more senior colleagues. Initiative and judgement are required to address and resolve daily problems.
The key activities will include:
Analyse, capture, document and implement business processes and/or business cases, and create requirements documentations or specifications as part of the Programme /Project life cycle, often to tight deadlines
Engaging with users to understand the functional requirements, including anticipated future needs.
Analysing user requests & constructively challenging users to adopt Oracle Fusion standard functions wherever relevant.
Where development is required, ensuring that design & content requirements are properly captured.
Creating functional specifications in collaboration with business users, and working with the development team to validate requirements, define the solution, and oversee the delivery of reports.
Working with design leads to ensure that functional process is consistent with approved business processes.
Supporting users to ensure new or modified functions are tested and signed off.
Providing advice and training to the Finance community and business users on driving best practice through effective use of tools, standardisation, templates, formats, and visualisation.

Principle responsibilities
Defines scope and deliverable for assignment with 'client'
Delivers assignment in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures
Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment
Ensures risk management plans are in place for assignment
Supports the development of intellectual property including methods, approaches, sales collateral and capability development programmes to support creation of and renewal of generic business propositions

Essential skills, qualifications, and experience:
Good working knowledge of Oracle Fusion/Oracle Fusion Financials Experience
Knowledge of finance processes including comprehensive understanding of one or more of the Oracle functional specialisms.
Experience in working with stakeholders at all levels across the business, delivering with quality and at pace to meet deadlines
Excellent Verbal and Written communication skills
Highly numerate and analytical
BCS Business Analysis qualifications or equivalent

Desired Specialisms/ Oracle Module area of focus:
Accounts Payable - Invoice Processing, Supplier Data Management, i-Supplier Portal etc.
Purchasing - requisitioning, PO processing/interfaces etc.
Record to Report - General Ledger, Chart of Accounts, Reporting etc.
Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
Order to Cash - Accounts Receivable, Advance collections
Cash Management
Projects & Fixed Assets

Desired skills, qualifications, and experience:
Degree Level Qualification or equivalent
Scrum Master Qualification
CRM/BPMS Project and Delivery Experience
Oracle Fusion Financials Experience
Agile/Dev Ops Delivery experience
Demonstrable experience of working as a Senior business Analyst on large or complex programmes/ projects.

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