Finance Business Analyst, M&A

Finance Business Analyst, M&A | International TIC Group | UK-based, extensive travel

Salary: £60,000 basic + bonus + private medical insurance + benefits. All travel and subsistence covered on top of salary

Location: UK-based, remote, anywhere with easy access to a major airport. A lot of travel with the current pipeline mainly in Italy and Spain and the potential for a wider remit after that

Reports to: Lead Business Analyst, M&A Integration

Our client is a private equity-backed testing, inspection, and certification group that grows through acquisition. Its central integrations team brings each newly acquired business onto the group’s NetSuite platform. A deal completes, and within days the team is on site going through the balance sheet and P&L. Eight weeks later, the business is running on the group’s finance model, and the team has moved on to the next one. The group is hiring two Finance Business Analysts who will go on site, get into the data themselves, and get each entity live.

The role

You’ll work across every finance workstream (RTR, PTP, and OTC) on three to four integrations at once, each at a different stage of discovery, configuration, UAT and cutover, or hypercare. Priorities shift as deal dates and cutover schedules move.

When you arrive at a newly acquired business, you’ll do the discovery yourself. You’ll log into unfamiliar legacy systems, extract raw transactional data, and untangle messy ledgers, rather than sending checklists to the local team and waiting for answers. You’ll:

• Extract and clean data for multi-entity subsidiary setups, map local ledgers to the standard Chart of Accounts, and load opening trial balances
• Configure tax and VAT schedules and run general ledger cutovers
• Clean vendor masters, standardise approval matrices, and set up bank feeds and payments
• Migrate customer portfolios and open debt, and configure billing schedules and revenue recognition from local contracts
• Find undocumented system dependencies, shadow IT, and local applications, and document what the NetSuite systems team needs to know
• Decide when a legacy discrepancy needs resolving properly and when an interim workaround is acceptable, without compromising group governance
• Write clean SOPs, handover registers, and process maps so the shared service centre and BAU teams can take over at go-live

The finance teams you’ll work with have just been acquired, and many will be anxious about what comes next. You’ll be the person who solves problems for them on the ground and makes the change feel like an upgrade.

What you’ll bring

• Three to five or more years in business analysis or systems accounting, focused on data migration and system implementations
• Hands-on, multi-subsidiary NetSuite experience, including intercompany eliminations, opening trial balance cutovers, and reporting segmentation (this is essential)
• Advanced Excel for heavy data mapping and cleaning, including VLOOKUPs and CSV uploads
• Working knowledge of RTR, PTP, OTC, payroll interfaces, and master data management
• An approachable, professional manner, and the ability to build trust quickly with people under pressure
• Genuine availability to travel most of the time, often at short notice, wherever the next acquisition is

Spanish or Italian language skills would be advantageous. Portuguese would help too.