BA/BI Consultant

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct requirement gathering workshops with business and finance stakeholders (FP&A, Accounting, Reporting teams).
• Document detailed business and financial requirements, including KPIs, metrics, and analytical use cases.
• Define financial data requirements, including ratios, measures, and reporting logic.
• Prepare comprehensive functional specifications for dashboards and financial reports.
• Define data mappings, business rules, and financial transformations for ETL processes.
• Collaborate with data engineering and BI teams to ensure accurate implementation of financial logic.
• Enable self-service BI and ad-hoc reporting capabilities with proper governance and access controls.
• Act as a bridge between onshore stakeholders and offshore delivery teams for clarifications and alignment.
• Support and coordinate

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• with finance users, ensuring business validation and sign-off.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of financial data across reports.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience in

Business Analysis

Finance domain (FP&A, Accounting, Financial Reporting)

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• In-depth understanding of financial KPIs, ratios, and performance metrics.
• Proven experience in
• Actual vs Budget vs Forecast
• , variance analysis, and trend analysis.
• Solid knowledge of financial statements:

P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow

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• Understanding of

General Ledger (GL)

• structures and financial data flows.
• Good knowledge of
• data modelling, ETL processes, and financial data transformations
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• Familiarity with

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC)

• or similar BI/reporting tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, especially with senior finance stakeholders (e.g., CFO, FP&A leadership).
• Ability to conduct workshops and translate complex financial concepts into clear BI requirements.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in banking or financial services domain.
• Exposure to data warehousing concepts and BI architecture.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.