Finance Business Analyst

On behalf of BEIS - The Insolvency Service , we are looking for a Finance Business Analyst (Inside IR35) for a contract until March 2027 . This is a

hybrid working role (three days per week office based - various locations available).

Job Purpose:

We require an experienced Business Analyst to work on a high-profile project developing the Agency’s Unit Cost Framework and associated cost allocation methodology.

The Business Analyst will work with stakeholders across the Agency to understand how services are delivered and map the activities, processes, resources, systems and data that contribute to defined outputs and their costs.

The role will help deliver a robust, sustainable and data-driven framework that supports effective decision -making and enables the Agency to understand its unit costs.

As a Finance Business Analyst , your main responsibilities will be to:

- Map how services are delivered across Agency functions, linking operational, indirect and support activities and the associated resources, processes, systems and data to defined outputs and costs, with clear traceability.
- Support the development, validation and improvement of the Unit Cost Framework and cost allocation methodology, including evidence-based cost drivers and the treatment of corporate support costs.
- Work collaboratively with business users, SMEs, Finance, Operations and Data teams, facilitating discussions and workshops at all levels of seniority.
- Support the testing and validation of the Unit Cost Framework, ensuring outputs are accurate, clearly evidenced and suitable for ongoing use.
- Work closely with the Project Manager to support delivery against agreed scope, timelines and objectives .
- Support the establishment of baseline unit costs and development of a repeatable framework for tracking progress against the strategic objective to reduce operational unit costs.
- Contribute to defining outputs, establishing model governance, documenting assumptions, and supporting decisions about allocation methodologies, cost drivers and stepped cost triggers, as part of the Unit Cost Framework development.

Essential:

- Finance background with experience of unit cost frameworks, cost modelling and cost drivers – specifically someone who has experience of connecting maps/processes to underlying cost drivers.
- Proven Business Analyst experience supporting complex cost-modelling, operational-analysis or organisational-change projects.
- Strong end-to-end process mapping experience using BPMN.
- Experience working in the public sector, with an understanding of government financial governance, assurance and stakeholder environments.

Desirable:

- Experience with activity-based costing methodologies.
- Experience undertaking data-driven operational analysis .

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, The Insolvency Service encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant / commitment

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, The Insolvency Service welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".