Skills

Leadership Accounting Agile Recruitment

Job Specifications

Business Analyst

Contract - 12 months+ (day rate outside IR35)

London

City of London - hybrid working

About the Role

We’re hiring a highly experienced Business Analyst with deep Finance Process expertise in the Financial Services sector to join the Finance & Group (F&G) value stream. This role sits across finance, investment, actuarial operations and product change — supporting major Retail-driven transformation impacting Group financial systems and processes.

You’ll join a well-established BA function, replacing an existing contractor, with strong onboarding, stable leadership, and close collaboration with Retail, Product, Finance, Investment and Actuarial teams.

Responsibilities

Lead expert-level analysis across finance, actuarial and investment processes
Translate Retail transformation into clear Finance & Investment requirements
Analyse accounting flows, ledger impacts, data pipelines and system integrations
Support design, build, testing and embedding of new products and system changes
Produce high-quality requirements and functional designs with full traceability
Operate in a mainly waterfall delivery environment, aligned to agile Retail sprints
Run workshops and explain complex financial concepts to senior stakeholders
Assess risks, dependencies and upstream/downstream impacts across teams

Required Skills

Finance & Accounting Knowledge

Deep understanding of accounting flows (debits/credits, ledgers)
Ability to interpret actuarial/finance impacts of product changes
Comfortable working daily with Accountants and Actuaries
Part-qualified accountant or finance-system implementation experience desirable

Business Analysis Expertise

Strong BA experience in accounting systems, actuarial systems, investment ops
Experience in product launch, product lifecycle and back-end integrations
Skilled in analysing data flows and complex system behaviour

Delivery Skills

Strong waterfall delivery experience (essential)
Understanding of agile/hybrid delivery (beneficial)
Confident managing dependencies and multi-team delivery alignment

If you’re a hands-on BA with deep finance and accounting system expertise — and want to shape transformation across Finance & Group operations — we’d love to hear from you.

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About the Company

www.thecurvegroup.co.uk At The Curve Group we create extraordinary solutions that transform working lives by supporting organisations to design, develop and elevate Recruitment and HR functions. Through expert analysis, benchmarking, consultancy and delivery services, we provide solutions across the entire employee lifecycle to enable better attraction and retention of talent. If you’d like to talk to us today about your plans and ambitions or to get fresh ideas and solutions to your current challenges, get in touch ... Know more