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Finance Automation and Reporting Analyst
2 days/week at home
A little flex time – We’re happy to talk flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace. We offer a range of options depending on your role, so please discuss this with your recruiter.
Job Description
Mott MacDonald
Position location: Croydon, UK / Edinburgh, UK
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan
We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.
We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.
Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.
About the business unit
Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.
Overview of role
We are looking for a reporting and automations developer to join the Group Finance Systems team. The candidate will need to gain a strong understanding of the underlying data sources within the ERP to be able to interpret business requests and provide adhoc reporting solutions to Group finance. The candidate must possess a robust understanding of SQL in order to support this. They will also support system setup and configuration tasks.
The Finance Systems team are responsible for all enterprise financial systems including those outside the core ERP (e.g. Order to Cash, tax provisioning, expenses, payroll, EPM) and the use of such tools is expected to increase. This role will also be responsible for supporting with the reporting, integrations and roll out of these systems.
They will also be responsible for understanding heavily manual processes and to recommend and develop automation tools utilising programming languages such as R, Python or VBA to improve efficiency and accuracy.
Key Duties
- Lead on adhoc reporting (SQL) and data analysis for urgent data requests e.g. to support audit queries
- Lead on design, development and maintenance of automation tools
- Specify, test and maintain integrations between finance systems.
The role also has scope to expand into other areas such as:
- Becoming a technical expert in the Trintech tool we use for monitoring compliance. This tool also has many unused functions which we would like to explore such as automated bank reconciliations.
- Developing interfaces managed entirely by finance (such as banking files)
- Work on adhoc projects using new tools as they arise
- Understand how best to use Group Tools such as Yammer, Sharepoint and Power BI and champion their usage within Group Finance.
Essential
- Computer Science graduate
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Strong SQL knowledge
- Able to establish good working relationships with colleagues in other functions and work collaboratively
- Able to work on own initiative
Desirable
- Understanding of finance systems and accounting processes
- Good knowledge of computing languages VBA, Python or R.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
Agile working
Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Health and wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
Financial wellbeing
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Lifestyle
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
- Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
- Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.
Company benefits
Working at Mott MacDonald
Company employees
Gender diversity (male:female)
Office locations
Hiring Countries
Ireland
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United Kingdom
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