Senior Software Developer

Company: NES Fircroft
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Location: Greater Manchester
Job Description:

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.

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.

What You Bring

  • 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.

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Posted: April 17th, 2026