Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst - Remote in the UK

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

Role Summary

The Senior Business Analyst acts as a strategic partner between Finance business teams and Finance Technology, ensuring business needs are understood, documented, and translated into effective technology solutions. The role is responsible for leading requirements gathering, business process analysis, solution design support, and project delivery activities across Finance systems and initiatives.

The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvement, define detailed business and functional requirements, support testing and implementation activities, and drive the successful delivery of business change. This role requires strong analytical skills, excellent stakeholder management, and the ability to operate effectively throughout the full project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Finance and Technology stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, and priorities.
• Lead requirements gathering activities through workshops, interviews, and process reviews.
• Analyse, document, and validate detailed business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear process maps, and other project documentation.
• Collaborate with delivery, development, and support teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements.
• Support all phases of project delivery, including solution design, testing, deployment, and post-implementation review.
• Develop and execute test scenarios, support system integration testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and ensure quality deliverables.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and meetings, managing expectations and building strong cross-functional relationships.
• Support the preparation of business cases, recommendations, and project updates for management and key stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across Finance processes, systems, and controls.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6–8+ years' experience as a Business Analyst, preferably supporting Finance, ERP, or enterprise technology solutions.
• Proven experience gathering and documenting detailed business requirements and translating them into actionable solutions.
• Strong understanding of business analysis methodologies, requirements management, and process improvement techniques.
• Experience working across the full project lifecycle, from requirements definition through implementation and business adoption.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and/or Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience supporting system testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and defect management.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
• Outstanding communication, workshop facilitation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Ability to work effectively across business and technical teams in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with Finance processes and systems, including ERP platforms and financial applications.
• Experience within Life Sciences, Healthcare, or a regulated environment.
• Familiarity with SDLC and requirements management tools.

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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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