What's involved with this role: Temporary Finance/ Data Business Analyst Ref no: Brent 5259452 Pay Rate: £19.95 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 12 months City: WEMBLEY, LONDON Support the delivery of financial and data-driven transformation initiatives across the organization through comprehensive analysis, solution design, and stakeholder collaboration. This role requires expertise in interpreting financial data, analysing business performance, and identifying trends to inform decision-making and support process improvements. Work closely with project team and service leads, capturing detailed business requirements, developing actionable insights, and driving the delivery of robust financial and operational solutions. Design and document workflows, process improvements, and reporting mechanisms that enhance efficiency, accuracy, and transparency. Actively contribute to workshops, meetings, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring outputs such as minutes, actions, and insights are delivered to a high standard. Key responsibilities: Gather and analyse financial and operational requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, data reviews, and process evaluations. Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, including forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and financial control mechanisms, and implement best practices to enhance efficiency. Analyse complex datasets to identify trends, forecast outcomes, and assess the financial impact of proposed initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals. Research and benchmark performance against industry standards, identifying innovative solutions and practices to optimize financial and operational performance. Design and implement performance dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and reporting tools that provide actionable insights to stakeholders. Produce high-quality, evidence-based reports and recommendations, ensuring clarity and relevance for decision-making. Collaborate with project managers and team leads to document user stories, business requirements, risks, issues, and actions, ensuring alignment with overall project objectives. Facilitate workshops and focus groups to engage stakeholders, including service users and team members, ensuring their input shapes transformation initiatives. Provide advice, guidance, and support on financial and data-related issues to ensure clear understanding and informed decision-making across the organization. Build strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders at all levels, fostering trust and cooperation to deliver project goals. Key requirements: AAT qualified, part qualified CCAB or CII ongoing study OR equivalent experience Experience in process mapping, solution design, and implementation of financial or operational improvements. Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to engage with stakeholders and present findings effectively. Strong analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate complex financial and operational data. Proficiency in financial analysis, reporting tools, and statistical methodologies. Expert user of excel query, Power BI and Oracle/NEC reporting would be an advantage Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. "XI ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please