Lead Business Analyst (f/m/x)

• Craft structured sessions with clear goals, agendas, and supporting materials.
• Facilitate conversations to uncover, record, and evaluate current processes and challenges.
• Create visual process diagrams, define data structures, draft user stories, and develop initial prototypes.
• Determine roles and security requirements to ensure proper controls and audit readiness.

• Oversee the collection and documentation of needs spanning Finance, FP&A, Accounting, and cross-functional teams.
• Translate operational objectives into actionable, well-documented functional specifications.
• Coordinate with subject matter experts to confirm and refine requirements.

• Map data flows, document transitions from source to target, and define criteria for data quality and reconciliation.
• Specify master data management requirements and outline governance processes.

• Identify capability needs, operational inefficiencies, decisions points, and integration requirements.
• Develop improved ("to-be") process flows and outline structures for master data, hierarchies, and security.
• Pinpoint standardization opportunities and existing gaps.
• Lead the production of business needs documentation with a clear trace from requirement to deployment.

• Prepare business-focused test cases, UAT materials, and acceptance benchmarks; coordinate user testing.
• Develop user training content and functional user manuals for various roles.

• 7-10 years' experience in a Lead Business Analyst or Functional Consultant capacity for ERP or EPM programs.
• Track record of designing and moderating in-depth business workshops.
• Proficient with leading EPM tools (e.g., Onestream, Tagetik, HFM, or similar).
• In-depth understanding of FP&A, consolidation, intercompany operations, and cost analysis.
• Capable of producing organized documentation, frameworks, and templates.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to present to executives.

Robert Half