Finance ERP Business Analyst

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The Finance Systems Transformation Programme is a major change initiative that supports Arup's Global Finance Vision. The programme will transform our future finance capabilities by enabling significant operational change through the worldwide implementation of Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM across Arup.

Delivering a modern cloud-based finance foundation will allow data and processes to be unified to enhance decision-making, increase efficiency and improve user experience, strengthening our organisation for the future.

The Programme will be delivered by a dedicated, collaborative, cross-functional and multi-location team working closely with our Finance team, our wider business, and the implementation partner to ensure a successful outcome.

The Finance ERP Business Analyst will be a key member of the functional ERP delivery team. The role contributes to gathering and validating the finance operations business requirements, supporting functional solution design, and ensuring alignment to best‑practice end‑to‑end finance processes. Supporting the workstream leads this will be a hands‑on role across design, documentation, data migration, testing, reporting and change management activities.

This is a fixed term contract role forecasted to last until May 2028.

The role will work closely with Finance stakeholders, functional workstream leads, technical teams, and the implementation partner to ensure successful end‑to‑end delivery of the functional ERP and EPM solution.

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• Support the workstream leads in delivering the effective and standardised outcomes for the Oracle Fusion ERP implementation
• Assist in gathering, documenting, and validating detailed business requirements for Oracle Finance Fusion modules from stakeholders across different business units and locations.
• Support functional solution design and configuration across relevant Oracle Fusion modules.
• Produce and maintain functional documentation, including process flows, configuration workbooks, functional specifications, and test scripts.
• Support data migration activities, including preparation, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution across data sets.
• Participate in end‑to‑end process design to ensure alignment with prescribed best practice processes.
• Support systems integration testing and user acceptance testing activities, including defect identification, triage, and re‑testing.
• Assist with reporting requirements for the platform, including via OTBI, BI Publisher and any other reporting tool.
• Contribute to change management and training activities, including development of user guides, training materials, and support for business readiness.
• Track and support resolution of issues, risks, and dependencies, escalating as appropriate.

• Experience supporting a key operational workstream (O2C, P2P, R2R, Projects, etc) as part of an Oracle Fusion transformation programmes, ideally within a large, complex, multi‑location organisation.
• Experience of working within a finance operations role and functional knowledge of Oracle Fusion modules in that respect and their integration with business processes.
• Experience contributing to ERP design, testing, and deployment…