Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of advisors and experts working across 34 countries with over 19,000 employees. Headquartered in London, providing design engineering, architecture, planning, and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

The Opportunity

The Finance Systems Transformation Programme is a major change initiative that supports Arup’s Global Finance Vision. The programme will transform our future finance capabilities by enabling significant operational change through the worldwide implementation of Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM across Arup.

Delivering a modern cloud-based finance foundation will allow data and processes to be unified to enhance decision-making, increase efficiency and improve user experience, strengthening our organisation for the future.

The Programme will be delivered by a dedicated, collaborative, cross-functional and multi-location team working closely with our Finance team, our wider business, and the implementation partner to ensure a successful outcome.

The Finance ERP Business Analyst will be a key member of the functional ERP delivery team. The role contributes to gathering and validating the finance operations business requirements, supporting functional solution design, and ensuring alignment to best‑practice end‑to‑end finance processes. Supporting the workstream leads this will be a hands-on role across design, documentation, data migration, testing, reporting and change management activities. This is a fixed term contract role forecasted to last until May 2028.

The role will work closely with Finance stakeholders, functional workstream leads, technical teams, and the implementation partner to ensure successful end-to-end delivery of the functional ERP and EPM solution.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share, and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Role Overview

• Support the workstream leads in delivering the effective and standardised outcomes for the Oracle Fusion ERP implementation
• Assist in gathering, documenting, and validating detailed business requirements for Oracle Finance Fusion modules from stakeholders across different business units and locations.
• Support functional solution design and configuration across relevant Oracle Fusion modules.
• Produce and maintain functional documentation, including process flows, configuration workbooks, functional specifications, and test scripts.
• Support data migration activities, including preparation, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution across data sets.
• Participate in end-to-end process design to ensure alignment with prescribed best practice processes.
• Support systems integration testing and user acceptance testing activities, including defect identification, triage, and re-testing.
• Assist with reporting requirements for the platform, including via OTBI, BI Publisher and any other reporting tool.
• Contribute to change management and training activities, including development of user guides, training materials, and support for business readiness.
• Track and support resolution of issues, risks, and dependencies, escalating as appropriate.

Is this role right for you?

• Experience supporting a key operational workstream (O2C, P2P, R2R, Projects, etc) as part of an Oracle Fusion transformation programmes, ideally within a large, complex, multi-location organisation.
• Experience of working within a finance operations role and functional knowledge of Oracle Fusion modules in that respect and their integration with business processes.
• Experience contributing to ERP design, testing, and deployment activities.
• Strong documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Good communication skills, with the ability to support interactions with business and technical stakeholders.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair, and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

To understand what to expect next, please visit https://www.arup.com/careers/recruitment-process/

Different people, shared values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.

We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. Please contact nick.newell@arup.com to let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application or interview process, and/or to perform the essential functions of the role. We will do everything we can to support you.

Our Application Process

To understand what to expect next, please visit https://www.arup.com/careers/recruitment-process/

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