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GDS R And DA UKI - Job Description
Senior Finance Analyst
Business Unit: UKI Finance
Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the UKI Finance Reporting & Analytics team. The primary focus will be to support the UKI across all our Service Lines.
The role will require the individual to provide financial and management information, develop new reports and analysis in collaboration with stakeholders and systematise existing assets. A key part of the role will be presenting this information and analysis to the end user, highlighting variances and actions accordingly.
Candidates will need to demonstrate an understanding of financial analysis work including significant processing and checking. They will need to build credibility and maintain relationships both within the team and the business and have ability to problem solve to overcome constraint.
This role is in a fast-changing evolving environment with several changes taking place to the team's processes and systems as the firm undertakes a Global Finance Transformation Programme. Therefore, the ideal candidate will need to be flexible and can deal with change on an on-going basis.
Your Key Responsibilities
Produce and publish financial reports on a weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc basis for the business to monitor performance
- Deal with queries from Business functions, Business Unit community and other staff at all levels
- Support the roll out of new initiatives, systems, and processes
- Be proactive in continuing own professional development
- Explores data to identify trends and relationships between variables
- Utilises different data sources from within the business
- Build, develop, troubleshoot, and maintain various reports and dashboards utilising Excel and Power BI
- Ad Hoc Reporting - Deliver high quality analysis, reports, using simple and effective visualizations that can be scaled for consumption by a larger audience.
- Partner with stakeholders to clarify requests and debriefs with client to explain data insights and confirm report
- Deliver timely reporting and dashboards that satisfies requirements
- Work collaboratively with team members to deliver business needs on time
- Creates and maintains documentation of key processes
- Performs checks to ensure data quality and accuracy is consistent on all platforms
- Use software tools to develop reports and analysis which convey relevant and meaningful information to internal customers of all levels in a concise and logical manner
- Downloads required data and formulate pre-defined reports as per defined schedule
- Testing: ensure User Acceptance Testing is fully planned and executed
- Assist in identifying testing resources, assigns test cases, and assess progress
Skills And Attributes For Success
- Exposure to financial analysis work, preferably within Professional Services. Numerate with strong data analysis skills
- Computer literate (Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word) with the ability to learn the firm's systems and other data mining tools
- Collaborative, with ability to interact with staff at all levels
- Contributes to team environment and supports juniors within the team
- Able to demonstrate initiative in approach to problem solving
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail, as well as commitment to quality and efficiency
- Client focused with a strong understanding of service concepts
- Strong communication and presentation communication skills
- Ability to change and flexible approach
- 3+ years experience as a Data or Financial Analyst
- Knowledge of MS SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and querying using T-SQL
- Understanding of relational database architecture and querying
- Proficiency in visualisation tools such as Power BI
Ideally, you should also have:
- Familiarity with Alteryx and Power platform tools.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) usage in day-to-day Operations & developments
- Version controlling in Power BI using Azure Dev Ops and GIT Hub
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, and VBA. Exposure on website development
- Hands on Experience in Migration of all Database elements to Azure SQL from On Prem SQL. Should have experience in using low code platform like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics
- Previous experience in a project environment, managing your own projects, owning the process from start to end
What We Offer
- Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
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