Senior Finance SAP Analyst

We are recruiting for a large oil & gas business who are looking for Senior Data Analyst who can sit within the finance team and work with the SAP team in IT, using SAP BW to really pull apart the data and work out what reports the finance community actually need and how to extract the right data and format it, in a way it can be analysed by the finance team for specific management information and FP&A activities. This role is a fixed term contract paying £70,000-80,0000 + Benefits for a 6 month duration. This person will be called upon to sometimes model data in excel. They will be speaking with a whole range of stakeholders from the front office team, to the Chief Information Officer and the Heads of department in IT, alongside the rest of the finance team. There could be a permanent role after this though. 

The initiative’s objective is to develop common finance data structures covering key finance data entities that will allow base level data to be aggregated systematically to meet Statutory and Management reporting requirements for the group, without the need to transform or replicate the data multiple times for different stakeholders.

You will work with the business and IT teams to complete the data structure definitions at a detailed level and collect the required information needed to populate hierarchies and attributes.

Responsibilities will include:

Interfacing with different business teams to collect and validate master data recordsMap master data into defined data structures Act as single point of contact for all data collection and data quality controlCommunicate and agree final data structures with business stakeholders and ensure sign-off for master data content is obtained from data owners. Assist with the development of business data processes and controls to ensure on-going data quality assurance

The ideal candidate will be a Finance Analyst with:

Experience working with SAP Analysis for Office, SAP BW, and SAP BPC 10.0 or 10.1SAP ECC and BW master data maintenance knowledgeDeep understanding of SAP Master Data concepts (Hierarchies, Attributes, Sets)

They must have deep excel modelling knowledge