Finance Systems & Data Management (50%)

• Act as a key finance contact for SAP BPC and related consolidation and reporting systems.
• Investigate and resolve consolidation, data load, and reporting issues, working closely with Finance Technology teams and third-party providers.
• Validate actuals, forecasts, and planning data to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency across systems.
• Support system testing, enhancements, upgrades, and change initiatives, including UAT activities.
• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and improve reporting and consolidation processes.
• Support the development of dashboards, reporting tools, and improved user experience within the finance systems landscape.
• Create guidance, training materials, and best practice resources for finance users where required.

Essential Criteria

Your Skills and Experience

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent relevant finance experience.
• Experience in management reporting, financial consolidation, and control processes within a corporate finance environment.
• Experience of SAP BPC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, or similar finance consolidation and reporting systems.
• Ability to analyse, reconcile, and validate large financial datasets with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain financial and systems-related issues to non-finance audiences.

Desired But Not Required

• Experience supporting finance systems, including user queries, issue resolution, testing, or system enhancements.
• Experience producing reporting and analysis for Executive Committee or Board audiences.
• Knowledge of reporting automation, dashboard development, or visualisation tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
• Experience operating within a complex, matrix organisation and working across Finance and Technology teams.
• Knowledge of audit and control frameworks such as ICFR or EMC.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

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Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge, and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

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Redeployment

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