Senior Business Analyst – B2B Revenue & Finance Transformation

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Who We Are

Since 1843, The Economist Group has championed independence, excellence and openness, helping people understand and tackle the critical challenges shaping the world. Today, we are building on that legacy as a global media and information-services company powered by digital innovation, analytical rigour and evidence-based insight. Across our three businesses
-The Economist, Economist Enterprise and Economist Education- we deliver trusted analysis and insights to individuals and organisations in more than 170 countries. United by a shared purpose to drive progress, we empower decision-makers to make sense of change and chart a course through an increasingly complex world. As a colleague, you will be part of a culture that values ideas, encourages ownership and holds itself to high standards.

We invest in people who are curious, thoughtful and adaptable, whether they are launching new products, reporting on global events or harnessing emerging technologies such as AI to improve how we work. Here, fresh thinking is taken seriously, ambition is matched by integrity, and great work is recognised. Working across disciplines, geographies and perspectives, we are united by a commitment to innovation, excellence and creating meaningful impact.

The Economist is a leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs, published weekly in print and digital editions, and daily through our Espresso app and  We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences, films and digital editions. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world.

Headquartered in London, The Economist Group has offices and people across the globe, and is valued by its customers for its world-class insights and rigorous analysis. We have individual and corporate customers for our analysis, data and educational offerings. We value individuals who think differently and can challenge the status quo.

The Economist Group is embarking on a programme to replace our core Finance platform. Our approach is to prioritise simplifying our current processes and ensure our workflows and data structures are clean before we transition. This foundational work is critical to ensuring accurate and streamlined operations sit at the heart of our commercial engine as well as allowing us to take advantage of the emergence of AI in financial platforms.

This role will primarily focus on B2B Revenue, specifically how Salesforce and our Advertising platforms capture and feed data into our finance systems and processes. We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to collaborate with Finance and Sales Enablement teams to investigate and evaluate the B2B Sales workflows, Salesforce and Media platform data architecture to determine their fit for downstream financial accuracy, billing, and month-end reporting.

While this role will primarily focus on B2B revenue flows, you will collaborate across other work streams. This role will be central in identifying which workflows should be re-engineered and implemented now to drive immediate efficiencies, versus which elements should be scoped but held for the future ERP implementation. The successful candidate will be a skilled navigator of complex stakeholder landscapes.

You will collaborate with a wide range of business and finance stakeholders to build a consensus for change and approach. Rather than being embedded in deep technical delivery, your focus will be on defining the high-level requirements and changes to feed into other product and engineering teams for execution. We need someone who can align commercial requirements with clear financial controls.

You must be comfortable working at a strategic level to validate the business challenge and mapping data assets and structures to ensure that when we migrate to a new ERP, the upstream data from Salesforce is clean, reliable, and optimized.

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