Rutherford Cross is pleased to be partnered with a global premium drinks business in Lanarkshire to appoint a Business Analyst. Reporting to the head of BA, this represents a great opportunity for a data-focused finance professional to join a hugely successful Scottish business that has a track record of staff development and a market-leading culture & benefits package.

Ideally, we are looking to engage with qualified or qualified by experience accountants who have a robust knowledge of the balance sheet & P&L gained in a large-scale organisation. We are also happy to consider first movers from accounts preparation in practice, or keen to speak with Finance Analysts who have had significant exposure to MI, P&Ls, Financial reporting etc.

This role will be responsible for a variety of tasks predominantly relating to the creation of high-quality MI, business intelligence, projects and systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the formation of requirements, detailed specifications and changes to reporting requirements and associated business processes
• Complete analysis of requirements ensuring it is fully defined, well understood and will deliver the business requirement, clearly highlighting business process and data issues and changes required
• Work with business representatives to ensure there is a clear plan to deliver business / data changes to enable the delivery of the proposed change
• Assist in the completion of specification documentation in line with requirements and communicate these requirements to the Business Intelligence team
• Build expected results models to be used to test the developed solution
• Develop acceptance criteria guidance and input for test scripts, and ensure scenarios cover key business activities and variations. Help to coordinate UAT execution, validating any defect impacts and actions to address
• Ensure testing is fully signed off by projects, BI team and business before being released
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring cross-functional working
• Responsible for management reporting packs maintenance and changes via Assyst or the Governance process

For an initial confidential discussion regarding this opportunity, or more information on the company / remuneration, please contact Harry Young at Rutherford Cross – 07494 280 500 / [email protected].