Forsyth Barnes
Divestment Business Analyst
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Location: Remote Contract: Initial 60 days, with strong likelihood of extension Contract: Outside Start Date: ASAP
About the Role We are seeking an experienced Divestment Business Analyst to support a critical business carve-out and separation programme.
This is not a traditional Business Analyst role. We are looking for someone with genuine hands-on experience supporting divestments, carve-outs or business separation programmes, who understands the complexities involved in separating a business while maintaining continuity across both the divested and retained organisations.
You will work across multiple business functions to assess the impact of the separation, identify dependencies and risks, and support the business through the planning and execution of the carve-out.
The successful candidate will be comfortable answering the question: "What breaks if we carve this business unit out tomorrow?" You will need to be able to identify potential operational, process, technology and data impacts before they become business-critical issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct end-to-end Business Impact Assessments (BIAs) across the divestment programme.
- Assess the impact of the separation across:
- People
- Processes
- Technology
- Data
- Vendors
- Customers
- Support the development and execution of business separation plans.
- Work closely with senior stakeholders and SMEs across Finance, HR, Operations, Sales, IT, Legal and Procurement.
- Identify and document risks, dependencies, interdependencies and mitigation plans.
- Support Transitional Services Agreement (TSA) planning and transition activities.
- Assess the impact of application, system and technology separation.
- Identify critical operational dependencies and potential points of failure.
- Facilitate workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Translate complex business and technology impacts into clear documentation and recommendations.
- Work across the programme to ensure business continuity throughout the separation process.
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Essential Experience The successful candidate will have:
- Proven experience working on divestment, carve-out or business separation programmes.
- Strong Business Analysis experience within a large enterprise environment.
- Hands-on experience conducting business impact assessments.
- Experience working across multiple business functions and stakeholder groups.
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- The ability to quickly identify operational, process and technology dependencies.
- Experience assessing the impact of separation across people, process, technology, data, vendors and customers.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and documentation skills.
- The ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced programme environment with limited lead time.
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Desirable Experience Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:
- Transitional Services Agreements (TSA)
- M&A integration or separation
- ERP separation
- CRM separation
- Salesforce
- Microsoft Business Central
- Oracle
- SAP
- Application and system separation
- International business separation programmes
Stakeholder Environment You will work across a broad range of business and programme stakeholders, including:
- Finance
- HR
- Sales
- Operations
- Procurement
- Legal
- IT
- Business Leadership
- Subject Matter Experts
- Programme and Transformation Teams
What We're Looking For We are looking for someone who has done this before. You should be able to demonstrate previous involvement in genuine divestment or carve-out programmes and explain the practical challenges involved in separating a business.
You will be particularly effective if you can:
- Quickly understand how a business operates.
- Map critical processes and dependencies.
- Identify what systems, data, suppliers and services the business relies upon.
- Understand what needs to remain in place during a separation.
- Identify risks before they become operational issues.
- Work confidently with both business and technology stakeholders.
- Turn complex findings into clear, actionable recommendations.
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