Finance Business Analyst - FP&A / Accounting / Finance

Our client, a leading Financial Services business, is recruiting for a Finance Business Analyst with FP&A and Finance Consolidation system experience to join them on a contract basis. The role is based in London with ad hoc travel required.

Location: London

• Good understanding of project governance and lifecycle
• Solid analytical and organisational skills with the ability to review, challenge and influence solutions and processes
• Good numerical skills, confident using IT platforms to solve finance problems, conversant in the language of Finance from detail level up to C suite level
• Experience of financial reporting requirements; covering either statutory reporting, management reporting, or financial planning
• Able to operate on own initiative and be self-managing and work remotely

• Experience of finance software implementations and delivery finance requirements
• Working understanding of the principles of accounting and EPM solutions
• Experience of working in a Global business environment
• Working in Agile Scrum as a Product Owner or BA
• Experience in extracting and analysing data from financial systems
• SOx, USGAAP and IFRS controls and reporting standards
• Finance Consolidation Platforms such as OneStream, Oracle Fusion, Tagetik, Hyperion/HFM, SAP S/4Hana Finance for Group Reporting, Prophix
• Experience writing acceptance criteria; writing Test cases and test scripts; executing tests and raising/triaging bugs; managing feedback; validating calculations; reconciling data; coordinating and supporting UAT; checking/validating releases, bugs and fixes; managing product backlog and features