Business / Change Analyst recruitment

MG Investments

MG Investments, part of the Prudential Group, is a city based investment company with assets under management of more than £195 billion, as at 31 December 2010. As one of the largest asset managers in Europe, it aims to maximise profitable growth by operating in markets where it has a leading position and competitive advantage, including retail fund management, institutional fixed income, pooled life and pension funds, property and private finance.

Opportunity
Exciting new opportunity to join our Finance team and focus on new change initiatives (ie; process improvements following on from the implementation of our new Finance system [Hyperion]).

- To analyse business needs of Finance to deliver solutions and process improvements.
- To document the requirements of Finance and facilitate the technical specification of proposed solutions.

Key responsibilities

- Works proactively/closely with business to analyse, investigate and define business requirements
- Obtains a clear understanding of the existing processes and potential impact and benefits where appropriate
- Participates in the definition and documentation of user requirements with Senior BA and manages feedback from reviewers.
- Contributes towards the definition and documentation of the new processes and the relevant documentation
- Works with the FSS Team to convert users' business requirements into functional specification.
- Understands impact of a project on other systems/business areas
- Initiates contact with wider MG business to investigate current business processes which relate to Finance and suggests how to streamline them.
- Produces appropriate testing plans for proposed implementations and assists in system testing and UAT strategy.
- Documents FSS internal processes and plays a key role in communicating these to the wider user community.
- Assists Finance Teams on own area of expertise; provides guidance and support to others.
- Shows resolve and flexibility to achieve successful results despite setbacks or obstacles, maintaining composure in difficult situations.
- Supports the change process throughout the various stages of development implementation.
- Maintains the FSS intranet page, introducing articles of interest and current developments in Finance process change.
- Collates action points from fortnightly FSS User forum and ensures that they are assigned to the relevant member of the FSS Team.
- Ad-Hoc Tasks as required by Head of Financial Systems

What we are looking for

Skills/experience:
- Capable of liaising confidently with senior management, sponsors and senior members of Finance
- Able to influence the solution, business users and sponsors
- Participates in driving and shaping the Financial Systems team and initiating developments within the wider Finance team
- Challenges, drives change and proactively realises opportunities for improvement
- Builds and maintains a network of contacts within the business, developing relationships and utilising them to produce positive delivery
- Has a good understanding of the complete finance management and statutory reporting process
- Strong technical knowledge of existing in house systems
- Definition and documentation of business requirements.
- Modelling of business processes
- Advanced Microsoft Office (Excel/VBA skills)
- Maintains ongoing communication with all project participants and stakeholders and ensures that any identified issues are resolved.

MG is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from a diverse background.