Finance Business Intelligence Consultant!
ROLE:
- Perform the recurring monthly, quarterly and yearly runs of the profitability models, ensuring data consistency, completing quality checks, analysing variances, and preparing clear comments and reporting outputs for review by management and key stakeholders.
- Support the administration of budgeting and forecasting models during planning cycles, including data preparation, issue analysis, user support, testing and follow-up of operational incidents.
- Contribute to Finance transformation and continuous improvement initiatives by documenting processes, supporting automation opportunities, performing testing, and helping to improve the efficiency and quality of Finance reporting activities.
- Provide first-line support for Finance BI activities, including handling user questions, supporting existing reports, contributing to small reporting enhancements, preparing documentation and escalating more complex issues when required.
Your Profile
Hard skills
- 2 to 4 years of professional experience in finance, management accounting, budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, management reporting, business intelligence or a similar analytical finance environment.
- Good understanding of Finance processes and EPM concepts, with the ability to support planning, reporting and analysis activities under the guidance of more senior colleagues or model owners.
- Solid analytical skills, with the ability to perform reconciliations, identify anomalies, investigate variances and explain findings in a clear and structured way.
- Good business intelligence and data handling skills, including data preparation, report testing, data quality checks and basic multi-dimensional analysis.
- Advanced Microsoft 365 user, with strong Excel skills and the ability to work efficiently with structured datasets, templates and recurring reporting outputs.
- Knowledge of QPR CostPerform, IBM Cognos TM1, Power BI or similar planning, profitability and reporting tools is an asset.
- Ability to follow operational procedures accurately, including data synchronisation, reconciliations, report checks, testing, documentation and incident follow-up.
- Fluent in English.
Soft skills
- Service-oriented mindset, with the ability to support Finance users in a helpful, clear and structured way.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with Finance stakeholders, technical teams and peers.
- Autonomous in recurring activities, while knowing when to escalate issues and ask for guidance when needed.
- Well-organised and reliable, with the ability to manage priorities and deadlines during key Finance cycles.
- Curious and proactive, with an interest in continuous improvement, automation, AI and emerging technologies.
- Strong attention to detail and sense of ownership for recurring controls, reporting deadlines and process documentation and escalating more complex issues when required.