Senior Software Developer
Posted 1 day ago by Rubicon Consulting
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Nationwide
Summary: Rubicon Consulting is seeking a Senior Software Developer for a 6-month remote contract focused on business analysis and solution shaping within a finance environment. The role aims to provide high-impact support to Finance and Digital teams by translating business needs into actionable requirements prior to development. The ideal candidate will engage with stakeholders to analyze finance processes and design sustainable technical solutions. This position requires extensive experience in software development and business analysis within complex enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage with Accounting, Controlling and FP&A stakeholders to elicit, clarify and challenge requirements before software development starts.
- Analyse current-state and target-state finance processes, identifying inefficiencies, risks and opportunities for simplification.
- Translate business needs into clear, prioritised functional and non-functional requirements suitable for delivery teams.
- Act as the initial gatekeeper for new requirements and incidents, ensuring they are well-defined, value-driven and technically feasible.
- Design pragmatic, sustainable technical solutions aligned to enterprise standards and long-term maintainability.
- Provide hands-on senior development input where required, maintaining a solution-level view across the application landscape.
- Review existing applications and integrations to assess alignment with business intent and recommend improvements.
- Ensure business logic is transparent, documented and testable to support auditability and compliance.
- Collaborate with onshore and offshore teams to ensure shared understanding of business context and priorities.
- Support release, deployment and governance activities, escalating risks and dependencies as appropriate.
- Identify opportunities to simplify finance processes, reduce manual effort and improve transparency through digital solutions.
- Provide focused ad-hoc analysis and insight to support prioritisation and decision-making during the assignment.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience as a senior software developer in complex, enterprise environments.
- Strong capability in business analysis within technology-led initiatives.
- Proven ability to engage confidently with senior finance stakeholders and translate business problems into technical direction.
- Solid understanding of finance, accounting or controlling processes and data flows.
- Experience with modern development and delivery practices including cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- An outcome-focused, pragmatic mindset with the ability to deliver value quickly in a time-bound contractor engagement.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Senior Software Developer on a 6 month contract, based remote.
Role Overview
This is a contractor assignment for an experienced Senior Software Developer with a strong focus on business analysis and pre-development solution shaping within a finance environment.
The role is designed to provide short-term, high-impact support to Finance and Digital teams by ensuring business needs are clearly understood, analysed and translated into actionable requirements before development begins.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with Accounting, Controlling and FP&A stakeholders to elicit, clarify and challenge requirements before software development starts.
- Analyse current-state and target-state finance processes, identifying inefficiencies, risks and opportunities for simplification.
- Translate business needs into clear, prioritised functional and non-functional requirements suitable for delivery teams.
- Act as the initial gatekeeper for new requirements and incidents, ensuring they are well-defined, value-driven and technically feasible.
- Design pragmatic, sustainable technical solutions aligned to enterprise standards and long-term maintainability.
- Provide hands-on senior development input where required, maintaining a solution-level view across the application landscape.
- Review existing applications and integrations to assess alignment with business intent and recommend improvements.
- Ensure business logic is transparent, documented and testable to support auditability and compliance.
- Collaborate with onshore and offshore teams to ensure shared understanding of business context and priorities.
- Support release, deployment and governance activities, escalating risks and dependencies as appropriate.
- Identify opportunities to simplify finance processes, reduce manual effort and improve transparency through digital solutions.
- Provide focused ad-hoc analysis and insight to support prioritisation and decision-making during the assignment.
Experience/ Requirements
- Extensive experience as a senior software developer in complex, enterprise environments.
- Strong capability in business analysis within technology-led initiatives.
- Proven ability to engage confidently with senior finance stakeholders and translate business problems into technical direction.
- Solid understanding of finance, accounting or controlling processes and data flows.
- Experience with modern development and delivery practices including cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- An outcome-focused, pragmatic mindset with the ability to deliver value quickly in a time-bound contractor engagement.
Our Company
Rubicon Consulting is a Talent management consultancy which helps you to optimise business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time!