Business Analyst

BUSINESS ANALYST - MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365 BUSINESS CENTRAL CLOUD MIGRATION

LONDON / SURREY

MAINLY REMOTE (OCASSIONAL TRAVEL)

OUTSIDE IR35

£420 TO £520 PER DAY

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a large-scale cloud transformation programme, helping a major organisation migrate from a highly customised on-premise Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central environment to the cloud. You'll join during the discovery phase and have the chance to influence future-state design, challenge legacy processes, and shape the overall approach to delivery.

The Company

They are a well-established UK organisation undertaking a significant ERP modernisation programme to improve scalability, standardisation, and long-term operational efficiency. With a complex business landscape and a heavily integrated technology estate, they are investing in a cloud-first future. The programme brings together business stakeholders, technical teams, and delivery partners to transform core finance processes and systems.

The Role and Deliverables

• Lead discovery workshops across Finance and wider business functions to capture requirements and shape future-state processes.
• Document current and future-state business processes, requirements, decision logs, and discovery outputs.
• Conduct fit-gap analysis against standard Dynamics 365 Business Central cloud capabilities and identify opportunities for simplification.
• Support data migration planning, including financial data validation, reconciliation, and acceptance criteria.
• Assess integrations, legacy applications, and customisations to inform cloud migration and future-state architecture.
• Act as a key liaison between Finance stakeholders, project teams, solution architects, and implementation partners.

Your Skills & Experience

• Strong Business Analysis experience within complex ERP transformation programmes.
• Demonstrable experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Experience delivering Business Central on-premise to cloud migration projects.
• Strong understanding of finance processes, controls, and ERP environments.
• Proven ability to facilitate workshops and engage stakeholders at senior leadership level.
• Expertise in requirements elicitation, process mapping, fit-gap analysis, and discovery activities.
• Experience supporting financial data migration, validation, and reconciliation activities.
• Ability to assess complex integration landscapes and support migration to API-driven cloud solutions.
• Strong documentation skills across requirements, process models, and business analysis artefacts.
• Confident challenging existing ways of working and driving process improvement initiatives.
• Comfortable operating independently within complex, evolving programmes.
• Experience within hospitality, finance transformation, or highly customised Business Central environments would be advantageous.