Finance Analyst (Procurement) - £45K

Our client, a market leading global services organisation, seeks to recruit a Finance Analyst to support a growing Global Procurement function. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a blend of both Finance and Procurement experience, coupled with CIMA, ACCA, or ACA qualifications

Role:

• The Finance Analyst will sit within the Procurement function, providing dedicated support to a global procurement transformation project. Core responsibilities are:
• Work with a variety of key procurement data sets to provide data insights.
• Supplier spend data
• Purchase order and requisition data from Oracle
• Familiarity in use of data from HR systems
• Extracting and using data from bespoke SharePoint based tools
• Work with procurement transformation team to develop hypotheses and support strategic decision making for business process engineering initiatives.
• Develop data driven models for scenario testing.
• Build and present conclusions of analytical work to a range of stakeholders and senior management teams within concentrated timescales.
• Define and produce appropriate reports, KPIs and dashboards to support benefits tracking.

Experience:

• Excellent numerical skills, with an ability to quickly and efficiently analyse and interpret spend data for the development of key reports
• Ideally demonstrates FA experience gained in both a Finance or Procurement functions
• Advanced Excel and Access skills, including use of pivots, dashboard creation and modelling.
• Exposure to e-sourcing / e-procurement platforms (ideally Oracle Fusion)
• Excellent communication, organisation and presentation skills to senior level stakeholders
• CIMA, ACCA, and/or ACA qualified.