Associate VP (Reporting Analytics)

Candidates can be Part-Qualified / Finalist or Fully-Qualified (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) and must have (important / essential) experience working in a finance-based reporting role (management accounts, financial reporting, product control, tax or regulatory reporting) with experience of the following: performance reporting, budget monitoring, performance analysis and data visualisation. Lastly, the bank offers hybrid working, along with a stable and well-managed business with good work-life balance and excellent benefits.

Additional Purpose / Coverage of Role:

• Proactive exploration and Finance use case prototyping of reporting, productivity, and other applications / tools to drive efficiency, innovation, and data governance.
• Empower analytics application end users through the enhancement documentation and training materials curricula ensuring these reference materials are actively managed for updates.
• Ensure analytics and reporting change is managed appropriately and in a timely manner from a Finance perspective.

Profile Criteria:

1. Part-Qualified / Finalist or Fully-Qualified (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with experience working in a finance-based reporting role (management accounts, financial reporting, product control, tax or regulatory reporting). Note: The hiring manager is not looking for a pure Business Analyst to undertake a 100% change focused role, so candidates must have reporting-based experience (revenue and / or cost analysis experience would be ideal).
2. Experience of working with Business Intelligence tools (particularly PowerBI, Tableau or Alteryx) essential.
3. Must have experience of the following: performance reporting, budget monitoring, performance analysis and data visualisation.
4. Confident working with large data sets and performing data reconciliation is essential.
5. While banking or financial services industry experience would be nice to have, this specific sector experience is not essential (non-banking and financial services candidates are welcome)
6. Good stakeholder management and communication skills

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Proactively contribute to the evolution of Power BI analytics with timely and accurate updates to shared dashboards and strengthening governance framework around data analytics delivery. 
• Perform required data analysis, data modelling, data integration and data reconciliation activities to support a wide range of stakeholders both in terms of functional roles / subject matter and across corporate grades.
• Solicit / clarify and document business analysis and reporting requirements through workshops and other facilitation techniques.
• Deliver semi-automated solution prototypes and EUC tools designing and implementing appropriate systematic and / or procedural controls to provide assurance over the completeness and accuracy of the solution; Write and maintain technical and user process documentation to help describe and use such solutions.
• Perform and direct timely User Acceptance Testing completion for / by Finance colleagues and other stakeholders. This will include UAT of Reporting outputs / New Products / data model validation.
• Data analytics change management planning and delivery activities relating to Power BI Workspaces. This will require stakeholder management across multiple business areas.
• Lead and participate in data analytics working groups and other relevant fora.
• Finance Management Reporting and Analytics SharePoint content management: creating new content, periodic reviews and content updates as required / directed.
• Draft / review / update User Documentation for Power BI Platform, data models, data transformation and dashboards. This may require technical analysis and collaboration with system developers to translate complex data transformations and processes into plain English which can be understood by a wide business audience.

Additional Skills and Experience Required / Useful:

• Experience working in a finance-based reporting role (management accounts, financial reporting, product control, tax or regulatory reporting) highly desirable.
• Experience of working with Business Intelligence tools (particularly PowerBI and Tableau) essential.
• Confident working with large data sets and performing data reconciliation is essential.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent vocational qualification in a Finance / Banking / Accounting / Data Science / Data Analytics Discipline.
• Advanced MS Excel skills / experience is essential.
• Attention to detail is essential.
• Basic understanding of accounting principles is essential.
• Practical knowledge of SQL highly desirable and practical experience using MS PowerBI Dax, MS Teams and MS SharePoint is desirable.
• Experience performing user acceptance testing (UAT) is desirable.
• Effective communicator with experience working with remote stakeholders.
• Confidence in working both as part of a team (leading / participating) and as an individual.
• Prior experience requirements gathering / documenting requirements is desirable.
• Positive and proactive in learning, accurate and methodical in delivering work and able to proactively look for opportunities to improve processes / documentation through innovation.