Insights & Analysis Finance Lead

Insights & Analysis Finance Lead (AI)

Luton

Hybrid, outside IR35, 12-month contract

you will lead a small team of Business Area Leads (senior business analysts), providing them with oversight, helping them to prioritise, and creating the best practices and guidelines that will make sure they deliver great quality work at pace.

You will be responsible for designing new operating models for Finance analytics utilising AI . Your leadership will empower your team to work with some senior customers so that they can make decisions at pace. You will know you are winning when you see Finance making better decisions, reducing risk, reducing costs and accelerating their processes, because of your team s work.

Your team will:

• Collaborate with multiple business teams and senior leaders within Finance groups, to own the collection of requirements, existing challenges and business opportunities. Then work with project teams to get those opportunities delivered using AI.
• Lead the integration of analytics and AI into business processes, where possible automating decision making.
• Be engaged in data management work such as:
  • design of an analytics catalogue
  • promoting data literacy
  • participating in analytics governance forums and being the champion for citizen data services.
• Develop & embed best practices & standards for business intelligence lifecycle for data products, digital boardrooms, documentation, dashboards & visualizations.
• Prepare material, tools, sample data, and processes for Fit-2-Standard workshops.
• Manage the requirements and functional specifications arising from the Fit-2-Standard workshops.
• Contribute to the analytics and AI operating model.
• Identify learning and development needs.

Essential Qualifications:

• Strong business analysis experience and knowledge of analytics.
• Team leadership management/experience
• Considerable experience and exposure to standard finance processes e.g. Record to Report cycle; Order to Cash; Procure to Pay.
• Experience in working with large and sophisticated data sets in commonly used BI tools like SAP Analytics Cloud
• Experience in Financial planning tools like SAC Planning, SAP BPC or Hyperion and business planning cycle of long-term planning & mid-term planning.
• Experience in one or more full S/4 HANA implementation cycle/s in Analytics using Embedded Analytics, AI, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP B/W4 HANA, SAP Datasphere.
• Ability to lead across geographies and cultures.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Leading multiple teams across geographies.
• Regulatory experience, e.g. GxP and SOx.
• Exposure to S/4 HANA Central Finance implementations.
• Exposure to SAP Finance, Controlling, and integration of finance with other SAP areas like MM, PP, IM etc.
• Familiarity with data science concepts and use cases in Finance.
• Bio-Tech, Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences experience.

Osirian Consulting is committed to working with our clients to promote equality and diversity in the workplace. We encourage and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and all sections of the community, and will never discriminate on the basis of race, gender, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually. If you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days, then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.

Osirian Consulting is acting as a recruitment business in relation to this role