Financial Systems & BI Reporting Manager

Financial Systems & BI Reporting Manager

As Financial Systems and BI Reporting Manager, you'll be working closely with key stakeholders in developing reporting and insight capabilities and implementation of these across finance. Managing a team and working across key areas of finance, you will be involved in designing and delivering a reporting roadmap and enhancing BI capabilities across the department. You will play a lead in the roll out of a significant Finance Reporting & Analytics transformation programme and the set-up of appropriate support across the business. Excellent technical and systems skills are a pre-requisite combined with strong financial acumen and project management skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with key stakeholders in finance, responsible for the overall design, implementation and management of centralised Finance BI & Reporting requirements.
• Make tactical investments in business intelligence initiatives and oversee maturity of business intelligence capabilities in Finance, including report automation & dashboard creation.
• Responsibility for leading the design and build of complete BI solutions to agreed standards, including management of internal and third-party teams.
• Responsible for working with other areas of the business and 3rd parties to ensure on-going system support is in place across relevant systems.
• Proactively develop systems capability and insights within the Reporting & Planning function.
• Programme Manager for Finance Reporting & Analytics project and act as the main finance contact for all global reporting and analysis projects, including Cognos tools upgrade(s).
• Develop effective working relationships within the business to identify changing business needs.
• Act as the finance spoke for BI and analysis. Overall custodian for business data within finance, providing context to business users on how best to use data and drive insights.
• Support ad-hoc requests for deep dive financial analysis from various business partners.

Required knowledge, skills and experience:

• Lead a Finance BI/Reporting capability in a complex environment with at least 5 years at manager level
• Experience of leading programmes/projects in Finance Reporting/BI
• Desirable experience with Cognos and TM1 with experience using Teradata, Oracle and/or related systems
• Strong ability to lead, mentor and motivate teams, with excellent collaboration skills
• Ability to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels to communicate business value and implementation requirements.
• Strategic thinker, a self-starter, quick learner and will have the ability to efficiently manage various high-priority and visible projects and operational tasks.
• Third-level degree in IT/Computer Sciences or a Finance related field.
• Experience in building and managing data warehouse systems, systems integration, reporting & analysis.

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