Senior Business Analyst - Finance

Plan, organize, manage, monitor and be responsible for the business analysis activities of projects.

Understand business context, project justification, business goals, and priorities and update and maintain documentation on such

Understand and apply business architecture concepts to ensure strategic alignment with organizational goals, outcomes and business value.

Recommend types of working groups, and leads working groups to support the discovery and analysis of business processes and requirements and the design of new solutions.

Document current state business process, capture issues and opportunities and understand proposed future state, identifying gaps to achieve that state.

Develop business requirements documents, solutions requirements documents, functional requirements.

Partner with and support architects in the creation of current and future state architecture.

Create process maps, data maps, data model, data flow diagrams and work with and support data architects.

Collaborate with integration architects to design integrations.

Prepare RFPs, including functional and non-functional requirements.

Participate in developing RFP scoring mechanisms and facilitating and managing the scoring processes

Recommend options for the implementation of business solutions.

Support change management by working with change management teams, creating training materials, and managing training when required.

Provide guidance and leadership to testing teams (end users etc.) and/or develops user test cases and validates test results during user acceptance testing, system acceptance testing and operational acceptance testing.

Lead and conduct workflow and gap analysis for operational support processes.

Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of the university's technical and business environment.

Participate in the continuous improvement of the business analysis methodology via recommendations and suggestions, lessons learned and working groups.

Advise and mentor project teams on various methodologies including waterfall and agile methodologies.

Lead, mentor and coach other Business Analysts on process, techniques, and good practices and provide guidance on project specific situations

Actively seeks ongoing career development through self-motivated professional development in the field of business analysis

Excellent English communication skills

Demonstrated expertise in mapping financial processes, gathering requirements, and delivering process automation solutions using platforms like Workday, Salesforce, or RPA tools.

Proven ability to work with Solution Architects and technical teams to design, implement, and support enterprise solutions across multiple phases of a project.

Experience facilitating across diverse IT teams (e.g., Integration, Privacy, IAM) and leading UAT, integration testing, and issue resolution.

Ability to develop high-quality documentation for processes, solutions, testing, and training to ensure smooth knowledge transfer to sustainment teams.