Finance Systems Business Analyst

Overview

Purpose of Position
The Finance Systems Business Analyst is the bridge between the finance business and the Group Finance Systems team. This role is responsible for capturing, translating, and managing requirements from finance stakeholders — ensuring that technology solutions in D365 F&O and connected platforms or supporting systems genuinely reflect business needs. The BA owns the requirements lifecycle from discovery through sign-off, and plays a key role in UAT, change management, and continuous improvement across finance systems. A significant and immediate focus of this role is the Billing Experience 2.0 initiative — a strategic, cross-functional programme launching this year to fundamentally rethink and modernise both internal and external payment processes across the group. The BA will represent GFS within the cross-functional programme team, acting as the voice of finance systems and ensuring that D365 and connected platforms are designed and delivered to support the programme's ambitions end-to-end.

Key Tasks

• Represent the Group Finance Systems team within the Payment Experience 2.0 cross-functional programme team.
• Lead requirements gathering for all GFS workstreams within the programme, covering internal payment processes (AP, treasury, intercompany), order-to-cash cycle (Master data, AR, bank) and external-facing payment flows.
• Work closely with programme stakeholders across Finance, Treasury, Operations, and Technology to ensure end-to-end process design is coherent and well-documented.
• Own the GFS-side test strategy for Payment Experience 2.0, coordinating UAT with finance business users and managing sign-off.

• Elicit, document, and manage functional requirements from finance stakeholders across GL, AP, AR, budgeting, and reporting.
• Act as the primary liaison between the finance business and the GFS team, translating business needs into clear functional specifications.
• Maintain a prioritised backlog of change requests in collaboration with the Head of GFS.

• Work with developers and architects to validate that proposed solutions meet business requirements before build commences.
• Support configuration and functional design decisions within D365 F&O, ensuring alignment with finance process best practice.
• Contribute to solution documentation including functional design documents, process maps, and training materials.

• Own and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) — writing test scripts, managing test cycles, and tracking defect resolution.
• Support change management and user communications around system changes and new releases.
• Assist with end-user training and hypercare during go-live periods.

• Proactively identify opportunities to improve finance processes and system usage.
• Stay current with D365 F&O release waves and assess impact on the business.

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst on ERP implementations or functional consulting.
• Strong understanding of core finance processes: general ledger, accounts payable/receivable, financial reporting, and budgeting.
• Experience in payment processes — internal or external — including AP/AR automation, payment runs, bank integration, or customer payment journeys. Direct experience on a payments transformation programme is highly advantageous.
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional programme teams alongside non-finance stakeholders (e.g. Operations, Technology, Product).
• Hands-on experience with D365 Finance & Operations or a comparable ERP platform (SAP, Oracle, etc.).
• Experience writing functional specifications, process maps, and test scripts.
• Exposure to Agile or structured project delivery methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills — able to work effectively with both finance and technical audiences.
• Analytical and structured thinker with a high attention to detail.
• Self-starter who can manage their own workload and prioritise across multiple concurrent demands.
• Collaborative team player with a continuous improvement mindset.
• D365 F&O functional knowledge across finance modules — desirable.
• MS Vision, Jira, Confluence (Atlassian Suite) or equivalent project/backlog management tooling — desirable.
• English skills are essential (Romanian, or Portuguese – advantageous)

Our Offer

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
• Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions
• Health & Well Being: With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can devote yourself to your mental and physical well-being.
• Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite Awin Academy to cover a wide range of skills that nurture you professionally and personally, with trainings conveniently packaged together to support your overall development.
• Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover a part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
• Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program.
• We are hiring in multiple countries, additional benefits in terms of health, well being, security and more will be discussed further upon first initial interview with the talent team.

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture. Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities. Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why. Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.