Systems Analyst - Finance

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Role:                      Systems Analyst - Finance

Purpose of role:       

As an analyst in a fast-paced, expanding Retail business you will be a valued resource within the FP&A team analysing and understanding all aspects of the Planning & Forecasting systems. You will  provide essential analysis throughout budgeting and forecasting cycles together with delivering  insightful reporting on an a periodic basis to enable decision support.

Reports to: FP&A Manager
Location: Dublin 

Key Responsibilities:
·  Responsibilities include development, maintenance, governance, testing, troubleshooting, and process administration functions required to support the enterprise wide financial planning and analysis environment on a daily basis.
·  Serves as the primary point of contact for Cognos TM1 applications.
·  Supports the FP&A team running the annual budget, budget update and forecast cycles through proactive system management.
·  Cognos TM1 user administration
·  Cognos TM1 application administration
·  Provide system development and improvements to streamline, standardize and automate the planning processes; take ownership of maintaining and managing applications and processes once set in place
·  Assists in providing Cognos TM1 support and impromptu training for users.
·  Documentation of all Cognos TM1 processes.
·  Collating and validating information, examining inputs and outputs, providing summary reports to enable review. Analysis to enable understanding of key performance drivers.
·  Budget maintenance and loads;  retail, margin, operating costs
·  Work with FP&A, Business Intelligence and Financial Reporting in development of capabilities to enable submission of Budgets/Forecasts to ABF using the Controller system
·  Creating and managing the periodic cost centre reporting outputs on behalf of the Commercial Finance team, developing and improving the reporting to add value and insight.
·  Creating insightful Reporting outputs during the Budgeting/Forecasting cycle
·  Ad-hoc queries  
Essential knowledge, skills and experience:

·  Strong communications skills (written and verbal) with requirement to communicate effectively at all levels within the business
·  Strong financial modelling skills
·  Strong planning and organisation skills, ability to plan and prioritise work schedule and work within agreed timescales
·  Must have 2+ years’ experience working with Financial Planning Systems, preferably Cognos TM1 although not essential
·  Strong analytical and problem solving skills, including data reconciliations required
·  Experience understanding, designing and managing master data hierarchies and members required
·  Able to demonstrate analytical and trouble-shooting skills  
Personal Attributes:
·  Thrive working in a fast-paced environment
·  Demonstrate initiative with strong work ethic
·  Be able to build relationships across the team
·  Good attention to detail  

Fecha de eliminación

19-Ago-2016