Data & Reporting Analyst
- Recruiter
- Vitae Financial Recruitment
- Location
- England, Hertfordshire
- Salary
- £60000 - £70000 per annum + 30% Bonus + Excellent Bens
- Posted
- 23 May 2017
- Closes
- 30 May 2017
- Ref
- NFDATA230517
- Contact
- Neil French
- Job Title
- Finance Analyst
- Category
- Retail / Wholesale
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Data Reporting Analyst
Hertfordshire
£60-£70K + 30% Bonus + Excellent Benefits
An excellent opportunity to help with transformative change within the finance department of a leading FTSE listed organisation based in Hertfordshire. You will plan and work with all parts of the finance department and change the approach taken to accounting and reporting.
The organisation currently uses SAP for its accounts, a data warehouse for analysis and Cognos for its standard management reporting. The finance department still produces a significant number of reports manually in Excel and often with reference to small dataset outside the reporting system.
The main objective for the role is for all of the data necessary for reporting to be held in a structured way in their reporting systems and for all reports to be automatically produced from our reporting system. The objective of this role is to facilitate reporting from our data warehouse and Cognos.
Key Duties include:
-Work with the finance department to identify any data sources, (either transactional or master data) to be added to data warehouse
-Identify reason why manual reports cannot be taken directly from the reporting systems
-Document any necessary changes to be made to the accounting, reporting systems or reports to facilitate automated reporting
-Work with the IT department to deliver the requested changes
-Build reports in Cognos
-Review department reporting requirements
-Plan to chair meeting to discuss reporting requirements
-Evaluation of report to be automated,
-Plan possible accounting changes,
-Define structure to be created in reporting system to support reporting automation
-Document changes to systems to be pass to the business intelligence team
-Testing of automated report
-Support the management of additional data sources to be loaded into the companies reporting systems
-Support the business intelligence team with their understand of requirement of the finance department
-Work with IT department to support the automation of tasks
-Build reports for the finance department within Cognos
The successful candidate will be of Graduate calibre, a qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA), significant system experience required and knowledge of SAP and Cognos is a big plus. A high level of commitment required - respect for deadlines, ownership of reporting and other responsibilities. Team - needs to work in a team environment and to understand requirements of senior management. You must be able to quickly gain commitment and buy-in from colleagues. You will have strong understanding of accounting processes and management accounting; Strong understanding of information systems and reporting systems; Strong communications skills - important to influence and communicate with colleagues at all levels.
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