Finance Reporting & Data Assurance Analyst

About our client

A leading global consulting firm focused on digital transformation within the banking and financial services sector. Providing innovative solutions across finance transformation, data, and AI, helping organisations modernise and optimise their business operations.

The Finance Reporting & Data Assurance Analyst will join a digital bank build team, to design, build, test, and maintain Finance reporting outputs, including interactive management dashboards, fixed-format financial and regulatory reports, and Excel-based submission outputs. The role combines strong accounting and financial-reporting knowledge with hands-on Power BI, Excel and SQL capability. The Analyst will ensure that every reported figure is accurate, investigating variances and retaining clear evidence of report accuracy and Finance sign-off.

• Work closely with Finance SMEs, the Finance Test Lead, Treasury and Data Engineers.
• Design, build and maintain Finance reporting outputs.
• Translate Finance, Treasury and regulatory requirements into clear report specifications, calculations, layouts, data requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Validate report outputs for completeness, accuracy, timeliness and consistency.
• Reconcile reports.
• Investigate report breaks, data-quality exceptions and unexplained variances.
• Support report testing.
• Apply controlled change, versioning and release-management practices for reports.
• Support Finance data governance.
• Work with Treasury to ensure approved Treasury calculation outputs are correct.
• Provide practical support to Finance users.

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems or a related discipline.
• Professional accounting qualification, or progress toward one (advantageous).
• 5+ yrs’ in Finance reporting, financial data, business intelligence or reporting assurance.
• Strong practical accounting, financial reporting & reconciliation experience (essential).
• Advanced Power BI, including DAX, Power Query, data modelling and report design.
• Understanding of data modelling, data transformations, data quality and lineage.
• Experience producing both interactive dashboards & fixed-format or paginated reports.
• Strong Excel capability, including complex formulae & controlled reporting templates.
• Working knowledge of SQL and the ability to interrogate and validate data.
• Data validation, investigating variances and reconciling reports to source data.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery tools, including Jira and Confluence.
• Banking, financial services or another regulated environment experience (preferred).
• Regulatory reporting, IFRS/EAS or controlled financial submissions (advantageous).
• Data lakes, APIs and event-driven data sources experience (advantageous).

Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to apply. If you have not heard from us within two weeks, please assume that unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion. We wish you every success in your job search.