(Norwich based, UK)
Norse Group has an exciting new opportunity for a Business Process Analyst to join the Finance Team on a full time, permanent basis working 37 hours per week. This role will be based onsite at our Norse Group Head Office - Unity Place, Fifers Lane, Norwich.
Reporting directly to the CFO, the Business Process Analyst will lead the analysis, enhancement, and redesign of key business processes to improve financial control, governance, and operational performance. The role is instrumental in supporting finance optimisation, embedding best-practice processes, and ensuring all activities are aligned with strategic and financial objectives.
Main Responsibilities:
- Analyse existing business processes and data across finance operations and Identify inefficiencies, control gaps, and risks within financial processes.
- Map workflows using suitable tools.
- Document end-to-end processes including financial impacts.
- Design improved (“to-be”) processes with strong financial controls embedded.
- Drive automation and standardisation of finance processes (e.g., P2P, O2C, R2R).
- Improve reporting accuracy, close cycles, and working capital processes.
- Apply Lean / Six Sigma / continuous improvement methodologies.
- Ensure processes comply with accounting standards.
- Strengthen internal controls and audit readiness, working closely with internal and external auditors on process design and improvements.
- Partner with Finance, Operations, MIS, and IT teams to gather requirements.
- Translate finance and business needs into process and system solutions.
- Define KPIs related to efficiency, cost, and financial accuracy.
- Work with the MIS team to develop dashboards (Power BI) to monitor process performance.
- Support financial and system implementation projects.
- Develop training materials and support change adoption which ensure smooth transition to new processes with minimal disruption.
Our Successful Candidate:
You will bring a combination of strong financial accounting knowledge with advanced technical skills including data and reporting tools (Power BI). Alongside this you will demonstrate:
- Sound financial experience Finance (e.g., Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Audit)
- Proven business process improvement experience.
- Lean Six Sigma or process improvement certification.
- Business Analysis certification.
- Extensive experience overseeing financial transformation or shared services environments.
Our Offer
- 25 Days annual leave + 8 bank holidays, Nest pension and 8-week Sickness pay scheme.
- Access to company discounts and offers.
We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage.
