Graduate SAP Finance Analyst in Sheffield

Kick-start your career with a leading FTSE 100 business, offering structured training, mentoring, and clear development pathways. The Graduate SAP Finance Analyst role is an entry‑level opportunity for recent graduates in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, or a related discipline who are keen to build a career in enterprise finance systems and digital business platforms.

Responsibilities

• Day‑to‑day support for SAP Finance (FI/CO) and related financial systems, assisting with incident resolution, service requests, and system queries under the guidance of senior analysts.
• Assist in investigating system and data issues across end‑to‑end finance processes, helping to identify root causes that may span multiple systems.
• Work with Finance business users, technical colleagues, and external support partners to gather information, test fixes, and support resolution of system and integration issues.
• Support SAP configuration and system change activities, including test execution, documentation, validation of results, and support for business testing.
• Build knowledge of how SAP Finance works alongside other SAP functional areas such as Sales & Distribution (SD) and Procurement / Materials Management (MM), gaining exposure to cross‑functional processes including order‑to‑cash and procure‑to‑pay.
• Develop an understanding of how financial transactions flow through SAP and connected systems, including upstream sources, downstream postings, and reporting impacts.
• Through structured training, mentoring, and real‑world exposure, develop the ability to analyse finance and system issues, support change and improvement activity, and work confidently with both finance stakeholders and technical teams.

Eligibility & Requirements

• A degree (or expected degree) in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• A strong interest in enterprise systems, digital platforms, and how technology supports business processes, particularly within finance or trading environments.
• The ability to analyse problems logically and work through issues that may span multiple systems or data sources.
• Comfort working with data, structured processes, and detailed information.
• Experience or awareness of ERP systems such as SAP (gained through self‑study, coursework, or a work placement) would be highly advantageous.
• The right to work in the UK.

Location & Working Pattern

• The role is primarily onsite, working 4 days per week in the office and 1 day from home.
• Based from either our offices in Northampton or Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire.
• You must live within a 60‑minute commute of the site.

Benefits

• Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy extra holidays)
• Staff discount
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Share save scheme
• Competitive salary and company performance related annual bonus
• Exceptional reward and recognition events

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