Business Analyst – Finance Reconciliations

London (Hybrid) x3 Days on-site
£550-£600
emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.
We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.
We are seeking a Business Analyst with a strong background in finance and reconciliations to support a high-impact system migration project. The role will play a pivotal part in preparing for and executing financial reconciliations during key delivery milestones, including the critical go-live events.
The Business Analyst will act as a bridge between Finance and Technology teams, ensuring reconciliation requirements are clearly defined, understood, and executed. This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong stakeholder management, attention to detail, and the ability to distil complex financial and technical information into actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
The role:

• Partner with Finance teams to define, document, and deliver reconciliation requirements for migration milestones.
• Identify and document types of reconciliations, expected volumes, data sources, and key dependencies.
• Work with IT teams to source and validate data extracts from systems such as Avaloq, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure pre-, during-, and post-migration balances and loads align consistently and accurately.
• Support the design and build of dashboards, trackers, and runbooks to monitor reconciliation progress and status.
• Facilitate meetings, manage actions, and resolve blockers to maintain delivery momentum.
• Communicate complex financial and technical information clearly to senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment and informed decision-making.
• Maintain structured documentation and provide management reporting and MI updates to governance forums.

Key Skills and Experience:
To succeed in this role you will need:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst working on finance reconciliations, preferably in a banking or financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of financial terminology, reconciliation logic, and reporting requirements.
• Demonstrable experience in data analysis, validation, and integrity checks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to drive discussions and decisions across Finance and IT teams.
• Excellent organisational, planning, and facilitation skills to support structured migration events.
• Ability to produce concise, executive-ready reporting and MI packs.
• Hands-on experience with Avaloq or similar core banking systems.
• Experience supporting migration cutovers or go-live events.
• Familiarity with banking products including Investment, Treasury, Trust, or Custody.
• Experience designing reconciliation dashboards or operational trackers.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint).

Our people
The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.
The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.
We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model
• Investing in employees' growth through ongoing training and development
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients' most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?
At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.
If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.
"emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin"