Financial Systems Business Analyst

• Maintains an understanding of business drivers and processes for Finance & Accounting.
• Works closely with the Chemonics’ value stream leaders to design and implement solutions that enable achievement of company goals and enhance value stream process efficiency.
• Analyzes and leads the implementation of modification and configuration in SAP Business ByDesign based on business capabilities requirements, including revenue recognition and timesheets.
• Proactively mitigates issues and exploits opportunities to enhance functionality for continuous improvement of value streams.
• Maintains current knowledge of technology trends, new features in SAP Business ByDesign, and emerging technologies to enable current and evolving business outcomes across value streams.
• Maintains current knowledge of, evaluates, and supports selection of Independent Software Vendor solutions.
• Coordinates with the developers and supports partners on application enhancements.
•  Leads user acceptance testing and writes test scripts.
• Assists in business process redesign and documentation. 
• Supports successful evaluation of options and decision-making of application governance bodies, including creating prototypes.
• Supports project management using Agile Scrum for successful solution implementation.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with Chemonics’ enterprise architecture principles and future-state architecture vision.
• Identifies the organizational impact and fiscal impact of the functional solutions developed.
• Works with Project Managers on projects/issues of high complexity that require in-depth knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments. 
• Work with teams in UK, US, and project teams located around the world.
• Support the development and delivery of SAP Business ByDesign training to build capacity of business users to understand and use the system. 
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required.

•  Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information systems, finance, or accounting required; SAP Business ByDesign Certification preferred.
• Experience designing solutions for various modules in SAP Business ByDesign required, including experience with revenue recognition and timesheets.
• Advanced to expert level knowledge and understanding of Finance & Accounting business processes required, including project, time sheets and revenue recognition.
• 8 to 10 years of experience as a Business Analyst required, preferably with multiple SAP Business ByDesign implementations including cloud solutions support.
•  Advanced capabilities using Microsoft 365 including Word, Excel, PowerBI, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Project, and Visio.
•  Experience in supporting, enhancing, and integrating with enterprise financial solutions such as D365 and QuickBooks. 
•  Experience working with Solutions Architects, Application Developers, and deployment operations.
•  Experience managing Agile Scrum implementations in Azure DevOps.
•  Experience as an IT project leader working on issues of high complexity that require in-depth knowledge of business segments.
•  Exceptional people skills, teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation. 
• Strong leadership skills; excellent analytical, technical, planning, and organizational skills. 
• Experience in facilitating change management across the business functions.
• Experience creating and presenting financial models to estimate the budgetary impact of solution architecture alternatives.
• Ability to collaborate with developers in both on and offshore environments.
• Experience proposing and presenting convincing business cases and product roadmaps.
• Ability to solve complex technical, managerial, or operational problems and evaluate options based on relevant information, resources, well-rounded experience, and knowledge.
• Ability to operate at advanced levels of authority and manage significant activities and resources to produce and take responsibility for results.
•  Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Demonstrated integrity, independent thinking, judgment, and respect for others.
  

• Experience from Government contracting or Aid and Development organisations preferred.  
• Experienced in working with senior level resources across several business functions preferred.

About Us

Chemonics UK is a leader in global sustainable development and part of Chemonics International's global network of specialists. We run projects that range from supporting children with special educational needs in Syria to increasing access to public services in Mozambique and fostering peacebuilding initiatives in Yemen. Every action we take is driven by the goal to transform life-changing ideas into world-changing ones. 

Our teams reflect a diversity of technical expertise and lived experience, because solving complex development challenges requires both. As a company, we are committed to connections – global and local, human, and technological – that allow learnings to efficiently flow and adapt between experts, projects, and countries. This is how we match the speed and scale of humanity’s most pressing and ever-evolving challenges, from bolstering research and innovative systems across Africa to supporting local governments and civil society in Ukraine.

Chemonics International is a major international development consultancy, with a 50-year history and a track record for delivering integrated solutions across multiple sectors and geographies to support the achievement of sustainable development goals. We are 6,000 experts in more than 100 countries around the globe, and 90% of us are working in a community we have long-considered home.

Further Information

Safeguarding & Pre-employment Checks

Chemonics is committed to safeguarding our staff, associated personnel, and our beneficiaries from all forms of harm including sexual exploitation, abuse, and sexual harassment. We respond with a survivor-centred approach if these forms of harm occur, perpetrated by persons representing Chemonics. Our safeguarding policy applies to all Chemonics staff and associated personnel, including the board of directors, consultants, interns, and sub-awardees both during and outside of working hours. All employees are subject to due diligence checks including but not limited to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) basic check or equivalent overseas police checks.

Our Culture

We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture rooted in access, belonging, and connection for all our teammates.

Chemonics UK values and celebrates the diversity of our colleagues. We embrace differing perspectives, lived experiences and expertise and believe that everyone should be treated with dignity, respect, transparency and fairness.

We welcome and want to continue attracting diverse talent, recognising that each candidate is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics. Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how Chemonics UK supports pregnant women and new parents.