Business Analysis Lead

Location: Hybrid / Stratford, London, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Accounting & Finance | Business Analyst
Salary: Competitive salary

Job title:
Business Analysis Lead

Reporting to:
Head of Integration & Technology

Hours:
Full time Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm (37.5 hours per week)

Location:
Hybrid working - must be willing to travel to all current & future Affinia office locations as required mainly in Southeast.

Affinia is the UK’s largest purpose-led, purpose-built Accountancy firm, focused on building stronger, more valuable relationships. With over 1000 colleagues across the East, South East, London and the Midlands, we are dedicated to supporting our clients, colleagues and communities.

We advise businesses, public sector organisations, charities and individuals throughout the UK and internationally across six Service Lines - Accountancy & Advisory, Tax and Planning, Audit & Assurance, Corporate Finance, Payroll and Corporate Recovery. Our team also offer in-depth sector expertise across a number of sectors, ensuring our clientsreceive the best short to medium and long-term advice, tailored to them. We are committed to delivering excellence in every aspect of our work, adapting to the evolving technology and regulatory landscape while consistently exceeding client expectations.

Our people are our most valuable asset. We are therefore committed to supporting our colleagues throughout their professional development, providing guidance and training at whatever stage of the career they join us.

We are seeking a highly organized Business Analysis Lead to join the Integration Management Office which manages the integration of multiple businesses per year as part of our private equity growth journey. The Business Analysis Lead will play a critical role in our organisation by bridging the gap between business needs and, where applicable, technology solutions. The Business Analysis Lead position is responsible for understanding the objectives of the company and translating them into actionable requirements for Business Change and IT projects/initiatives.

This critical role will be responsible for:

• Driving and maintaining our Target Operating Model
• Ensuring we have documented end to end business processes across the organisation for the different client and employee journeys.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders at all levels of the business up to and including C‑Suite.
• Understanding how a target acquisitions business processes map to the Affinia standard and identify where there are gaps and changes required post‑acquisition.
• Supporting the Organisation in identifying opportunities to drive business value through optimising processes, enhancing system functionality, and driving continuous improvement initiatives by bringing a holistic view of change.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Building strong relationships, working closely with business SMEs, department heads, and other key stakeholders to understand business needs and priorities.
• Supporting the facilitation of workshops, meetings, and interviews to elicit and capture requirements, identify challenges, and explore opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitating the communication of complex concepts and solutions in a clear and concise manner appropriate for the audience.
• Acting as a transformation partner for our multiple business areas - helping them understand how change impacts themselves and our new acquired offices.

Business Analysis and Enterprise Architecture:

• Responsible for leading, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closing the analysis components for projects and programmes that are deemed high complexity.
• Conducting research in the discovery phase, defining problems, crafting…