Leads end-to-end business analysis for a Finance/FP&A data product, including discovery, requirements, workshops, process and data analysis, stakeholder alignment, prioritization, UAT, traceability, and implementation readiness. The role analyzes impacts across Finance, Oracle, Workday, data pipelines, controls, and reporting; coaches other analysts; and ensures requirements are testable, documented, and aligned with business outcomes.
Sedona Digital is a technology consulting and services company specialising in AI, Data, Security, Business Applications and Software Engineering. We help organisations solve complex business and technology challenges, from strategy and solution design through to implementation and ongoing delivery.
Our teams combine deep technical expertise with a practical, outcome-focused approach, working with clients through consulting, project delivery, capability augmentation and managed teams. We are focused on helping organisations modernise their technology, unlock value from their data, adopt AI safely and build the capabilities they need for the future.
The RoleSedona Digital is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to lead analysis for a Finance / FP&A data-product engagement. This is a senior, self-sufficient role requiring someone who can independently own complex requirements, challenge senior stakeholders, connect business needs to data and technology delivery, and provide analytical leadership across the wider Business Analysis activity.
Key Responsibilities- Lead discovery and requirements activity across Finance, Data and Technology stakeholders.
- Define the problem, scope, business outcomes, use cases and end-to-end requirements.
- Facilitate workshops and challenge assumptions, ambiguity and conflicting stakeholder needs.
- Produce and manage epics, features, user stories, process/data flows and acceptance criteria.
- Analyse impacts across Finance processes, Oracle, Workday, data pipelines, models, controls and reporting.
- Support prioritisation with the Data Product Manager and delivery planning with the Delivery Manager.
- Ensure requirements are testable, traceable and aligned to data-quality and reconciliation controls.
- Lead business-input into UAT, defect triage, acceptance and implementation readiness.
- Coach and assure the work of the other Business Analysts where required.
- Maintain clear documentation and support knowledge transfer.
- Define and maintain the scope, outcomes and requirements baseline, ensuring alignment and approval from key stakeholders.
- Prioritise epics, features and user stories, with clear acceptance criteria and requirements traceability.
- Develop and maintain current-state process maps, data flows and impact assessments.
- Define and coordinate the UAT approach and scenarios, ensuring business acceptance is captured and evidenced.
- Maintain clear documentation of decisions, assumptions and unresolved requirements, driving outstanding items to resolution.
- Substantial experience as a Senior Business Analyst on complex data, finance or technology change.
- Ability to work independently with limited direction and take end-to-end ownership.
- Strong requirements elicitation, workshop facilitation, process/data analysis and user-story capability.
- Confidence challenging senior stakeholders and resolving conflicting requirements.
- Experience across multidisciplinary and multi-supplier delivery teams.
- Strong understanding of testing, acceptance, traceability and change impacts.
- Clear written communication and structured documentation skills.
- Insurance or financial-services experience.
- Experience of Finance, FP&A, workforce, FTE, cost, GL or financial-planning data.
- Experience involving Oracle and/or Workday.
- Experience delivering on GCP/BigQuery or a comparable cloud data platform.
Our values of Integrity, Persistence, and Impact guide everything we do. Join us in shaping the future while making a meaningful difference for our clients and team.
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