Finance Data Analyst

About the Role

The Finance Data Analyst plays a central role in helping the Finance function make confident data-driven decisions. Youll turn financial and operational data into timely accurate and meaningful information that supports reporting planning and performance management across the business.

Working closely with Finance Data & Analytics and other stakeholders youll build and maintain the reports dashboards and analytical models that underpin month-end processes forecasting and ongoing performance tracking while also helping resolve data quality issues improve reporting efficiency and turn business questions into practical analytical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Build maintain and continuously improve finance reports dashboards and recurring analytical outputs that support month-end close forecasting budgeting and performance reviews.

Ensure existing finance reporting is delivered accurately and on time investigating variances anomalies and data issues as they come up.

Work with large and sometimes disparate data sets preparing and transforming data to generate meaningful business insight.

Partner with Finance stakeholders to gather requirements define KPIs and translate business questions into clear practical analytical solutions.

Deliver ad hoc analysis and models that surface trends risks and opportunities and support decision-making with actionable recommendations.

Help lift the quality of finance data by spotting gaps and inconsistencies and working with the right stakeholders to resolve them.

Contribute to the design and improvement of reporting processes data definitions reconciliations and supporting documentation.

Respond to finance-related system reporting and data queries from internal stakeholders.

Collaborate with Data & Analytics and upstream data owners to keep finance reporting logic consistent scalable and easy to understand.

Document report logic metric definitions data mappings and process steps to support continuity and good governance.

What Makes This Role Interesting

Youll work across multiple data sources with varying levels of quality and completeness a great opportunity to sharpen your data investigation and problem-solving skills.

Translating finance and commercial needs into clear reporting logic and outputs is a core part of the role.

Youll balance recurring reporting deadlines with ad hoc requests learning to manage shifting priorities effectively.

Getting to the root cause of data discrepancies and reconciling differences across systems is a regular and rewarding challenge.

Strong communication matters youll explain analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Youll help maintain reporting accuracy and consistency while driving improvements in automation and efficiency.

Autonomy & Decision-Making

Youll have ownership over day-to-day prioritization of analytical tasks report design within agreed standards data validation approaches and recommendations for reporting improvements.

Bigger decisions such as major changes to finance reporting strategy investment in new tools or platforms or material changes to metric definitions and governance are made in partnership with senior stakeholders.