Business Analyst - Divestment

Business Analyst - Divestment

Location: UK-based | Fully Remote
Contract: 3 months
Rate: Up to 600 per day |Outside IR35
Start Date: ASAP

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join a high-impact business divestment programme with a global organisation.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a BA with experience in divestment, carve-outs, business separation or M&A to play a key role in understanding how a business currently operates and what is required for it to successfully operate as a standalone organisation.

You'll work across the business to identify dependencies, ask the right questions and help define what needs to be separated, established or retained across the organisation.

This is a holistic business analysis role, so we're looking for someone who can look beyond individual systems or processes and understand the wider picture.

What You'll Be Doing

• Analyse the current state of the business being divested and understand how it operates within the wider organisation.
• Identify dependencies between the business being divested and the parent organisation.
• Assess what the business needs to operate independently following separation.
• Engage with stakeholders across Finance, HR, Sales, Operations, Legal, IT, Data and other business functions.
• Identify business, operational, process, people, data, application and technology dependencies.
• Ask the right questions to uncover hidden dependencies and separation requirements.
• Support the definition of the future-state/standalone business environment.
• Document current-state and future-state processes, requirements, dependencies and gaps.
• Work collaboratively with business and technical stakeholders across the UK, Europe and the US.
• Support the wider divestment programme with clear analysis, documentation and actionable recommendations.
• Help ensure that critical business capabilities are understood and addressed as part of the separation.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for an experienced Business Analyst who can demonstrate:

• Strong experience working as a Business Analyst within complex transformation programmes.
• Previous experience in divestment, business separation or carve-out programmes is highly desirable.
• Strong M&A experience, particularly where this has involved separation or establishing standalone business capabilities.
• Experience understanding a business holistically, rather than focusing solely on a specific system or function.
• The ability to work across multiple business functions, including Finance, HR, Sales, Operations, Legal, IT and Data.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• The ability to independently investigate a business, challenge assumptions and ask the right questions.
• Experience working within global organisations, with exposure to both European and US environments.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• The ability to work effectively in a fully remote environment and engage confidently with stakeholders at different levels.

Desirable Experience

The following would be advantageous, but are not essential:

• Experience with Oracle ERP.
• Experience with Microsoft Business Central.
• Experience with Salesforce CRM.
• Experience working with Transition Service Agreements (TSAs).
• Experience defining or supporting standalone operating models.
• Experience identifying and managing complex business/system dependencies during a carve-out.