Senior Finance Analyst Data & Digitalisation
About the Role
Sewell Wallis is working with a forward-thinking organisation looking to recruit a Senior Finance Analyst - Data & Digitalisation.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in driving automation and digital transformation within finance. The Senior Finance Analyst will work closely with Finance Business Partners and wider business teams to standardise reporting, enhance business intelligence, and improve decision-making through data-driven insights.
This role is ideal for a finance professional with a passion for digitalisation, automation, and continuous improvement.
What will you be doing?
Reporting to the Finance Manager - Data & Digitalisation, the Senior Finance Analyst will be responsible for leading initiatives that enhance financial reporting, improve efficiency, and support business performance through data-driven decision-making.
Leadership & Business Partnering
- Motivate, coach, and influence finance team members in areas of data and digitalisation.
- Support and challenge finance teams to ensure data is used effectively for better decision-making.
- Drive process change across the organisation through automation and digital tools.
- Act as the key link between global/regional digitalisation teams and the local finance function.
- Lead and support cross-functional projects that improve business intelligence and reporting consistency.
Financial & Business Planning
- Support the Finance Manager - Data & Digitalisation in developing and executing the data and automation strategy.
- Drive the use of data and automation tools to ensure consistency, accuracy, and speed of KPI reporting.
- Identify and implement automation opportunities to enhance finance and business performance.
What skills are we looking for?
- ACA/CIMA qualification with a strong accounting background (first-time passes preferred).
- Proven experience in Power BI or similar tools for financial modelling and analysis.
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong ability to learn and apply new data and automation techniques.
- Experience working on automation/digitalisation projects.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies such as Six Sigma, Prince2, or SCRUM is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both financial and non-financial audiences.
- Strong time management skills.
- Experience with SAP R3/Business Warehouse & IBM TM1 is desirable.
What's on offer?
- Competitive salary.
- Opportunity to be at the forefront of digital transformation in finance.
- Career progression within a data-driven finance team.
- Hybrid working options.
- Private medical insurance.
- Life insurance.
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To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
