Senior Finance Analyst - Reporting - Monument Place
About the role :-
Provides high quality and comprehensive reporting to DFT with focus on periodic management accounts, quarterly forecasts, and the annual business plan and address queries raised in a timely manner. Additionally, creating and supporting internal and board reporting views within Power BI and TM1. Furthermore, supports process improvement across the GTR Finance Community.
Duties to include :-
• Maintain and update DfT reporting templates, including management accounts, assumptions records, and quarterly forecasts.
• Create and improve Power BI dashboards to support financial reporting, scoping requirements for new reports.
• Manage ad-hoc financial requests from key stakeholders, including Go-Ahead and the DfT.
• Own the period-end reporting file, ensuring the chart of accounts is accurately reflected.
• Provide financial support to projects across the business as needed.
• Drive greater use of Business Intelligence tools within the Finance team.
• Coordinate and provide feedback on financial business cases.
• Develop and manage automated processes (e.g., Power Automate).
• Act as Finance's data SME, working closely with the Data Analytics team.
• Document business use cases, scope model changes, and map data process flows.
• Troubleshoot first-level ETL issues before escalation to the DataHub team.
• Carry out data analysis and apply DAX formulas in Power BI to meet reporting needs.
• Manage report changes and permissions in collaboration with the central data team.
• Support data ingestion for approved datasets and ensure changes follow agreed pipelines.
• Stay up to date with data developments and complete training under GTR's 10-point data programme.
Skills, knowledge & experience:-
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified Accountant or equivalent
• Good technical knowledge of IFRS
• Data Analytics Qualification (desirable)
• Excellent Power BI and financial system skills
• Excellent Excel Skills
• Use of other tools such as Power Query and Power Automate
• Experience in preparing insight and concise commentary for internal or external stakeholders
• Experience of working within a finance team and a data driven role
• Evidence of commercial awareness and able to demonstrate a broad based view of issues, events and activities and a perception of their longer term impact or wider implications