Data Analyst - Management Accounting

Roles & Responsibilities

• Analyse Management Accounting processes covering:

• Profit & Loss and profitability reporting

• Revenue and expense attribution

• Cost allocation and cost centre structures

• Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP)

• General Ledger and Chart of Accounts structures

• Product, customer, business unit, legal entity and organisational hierarchies

• Management reporting and financial performance analysis

• Understand how financial transactions flow from source systems through the GL, Finance data platforms, allocation processes, FTP engines and Management Accounting reporting layers.

• Analyse existing finance processes, controls, data flows, calculations and reporting logic to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.

Skills/Requirements

• Experience in Management Accounting

• Strong practical knowledge of:

• Banking Management Accounting

• Profit & Loss structures

• Cost allocation methodologies

• Funds Transfer Pricing

• General Ledger structures

• Chart of Accounts

• Cost centres and profit centres

• Financial hierarchies and reference data

• Management reporting

• Demonstrated experience performing business process analysis, not solely technical data analysis.

• Strong ability to translate business requirements into data requirements and data model concepts.

• Experience working closely with data modellers and data architects.

• Strong SQL skills for data analysis, reconciliation, validation and investigation.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, reconciliation models and large dataset analysis.

• Experience defining:

• Source-to-target mappings

• Business rules

• Data transformations

• Data dictionaries

• Data lineage

• Reporting specifications

• Experience working with complex Finance and Management Accounting reporting suites.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.