Business Analyst, Financial Systems

ABOUT US

Climate Impact Partners delivers solutions for climate action. We are carbon market specialists and a go-to partner for every stage of the net zero journey.

With over 25 years of industry experience and fuelled by a relentless drive for rapid action and results, we have made it our mission to urgently ensure a thriving future for all life on earth.

We do this by providing an end-to-end service that delivers high-quality, thoroughly vetted climate projects which reduce carbon emissions, improve health and livelihoods, and enhance biodiversity.

Together with our clients and project partners we have been responsible for the reduction or removal of more than 144 million tCO2e.

Check out our Impact Report to learn more about us and some of the work you could help us drive forward.

What sets us apart:

· Boundless, urgent ambition. We are accountable, relentless, resilient.

· Courage to innovate. We are courageous, creative, curious.

· Integrity without compromise. We are trustworthy, credible, committed.

· Empowered to serve. We are respectful, inclusive, collaborative.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Business Analyst to join our Digital team, with a focus on supporting and improving our use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

You will act as the subject matter expert for Business Central, working closely with Finance colleagues, Digital teammates, and our external development partner. The role is central to ensuring our finance systems are robust, efficient, and fully integrated with Salesforce and our internal Project and Inventory Management System (DIAS, built on Microsoft Power Apps).

From documenting workflows and governance, to writing user stories, managing QA testing, and supporting Finance at month-end, you will play a key role in ensuring Business Central underpins effective financial management.

You will also help Finance adopt more efficient ways of working, providing training and guidance on system changes and coordinating smooth rollouts.

As a Business Analyst at Climate Impact Partners, you’ll ensure our finance and inventory systems deliver the accuracy and efficiency clients rely on. This work is essential to enabling their sustainability and ESG commitments, and to our wider mission of reducing 1 billion tCO₂e, improving lives, and restoring a thriving planet.

RESPONSIBILITIES

System Understanding & Documentation

• Build a deep understanding of our Business Central implementation, finance flows, and definitions.
• Document workflows, processes, data definitions, and system governance (naming conventions, roles/permissions, version control).

Requirements & Delivery

• Work with Finance to identify pain points, friction, and opportunities for efficiency.
• Translate requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria and ensure delivery with our development partner.
• Develop and manage a QA testing plan to validate changes.
• Collaborate with Digital colleagues to ensure dependencies are effectively managed and that Salesforce and DIAS (our inventory management system) integrate and synchronise effectively with Business Central.

Training & Change Management

• Provide training and guidance to Finance colleagues on system changes.
• Help Finance teams adopt more efficient ways of working by identifying friction and recommending alternatives.
• Coordinate change timing with Finance, ensuring releases and downtime align with business needs.

Support & Continuous Improvement

• Act as a first point of support for Finance, particularly during month-end , ensuring tickets are raised with the right detail, triaged, prioritised, and tracked to resolution.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve processes, reduce manual work, and improve reporting.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Knowledge and experience

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or similar role, ideally within Finance or ERP systems.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central .
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate) , ideally in the context of supporting or extending our finance and inventory management systems
• Background in Accounting or Finance (formal qualifications desirable but not essential).
• Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases .
• Strong documentation and governance skills.
• Excellent communication skills – able to work across Finance, Digital, and external development partners.
• Highly organised and resilient, especially during time-sensitive periods such as month-end.

Nice to have’s

• Familiarity with agile ways of working (sprints, backlogs, retrospectives).
• Experience supporting finance system upgrades, integrations, or reporting improvements .
• Exposure to data migration, data quality, or reporting tools (e.g. Power BI).

PERKS 

• Hybrid working
• 25 days paid holiday
• Private Health Insurance (we've teamed up with Vitality to offer you a wide range of perks, including free coffees, travel deals, and gym discounts)
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Bonus Scheme (subject to company and individual performance)
• Employee Equity Scheme
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Green Commute Bike Scheme
• LinkedIn Learning License & Professional Training Budgets
• Summer Fridays (start your weekend early if you've finished everything on your to-do list)
• Working from Abroad (up to 4 weeks a year)
• Global Volunteering Day
• Modern, state of the art office in Paddington, London, which is dog friendly and includes showers, a mother's feeding room, a wellness room and barista coffee bar.

Climate Impact Partners is an equal opportunities employer. Our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce, that embraces our differences, and so all aspects of employment including the decision to hire and promote, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business need. We do not discriminate on the basis of characteristics protected under federal, state, or local law. To support this, all applications are anonymised until the interview stage which means that regardless of who has applied, your characteristics are totally anonymous.