SAP Group Reporting Analyst – S​/HANA Transformation

SAP Group Reporting Analyst – S/4

HANA Transformation 2 Year Fixed Term Contract
Manchester Airport/ East Midlands or Stansted Airport - Hybrid Working Why MAG?

At MAG we provide the airport facilities and travel services that people need to connect with the world. As the largest UK owned airport operator, we serve over 60 million passengers a year from Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands Airports. With over 270 destinations across the globe, our businesses not only bring people together but also support the prosperity of the regions in which we operate.

Sustainability is one of our core values, and it shapes everything we do. We're committed to protecting the environment and supporting our local communities through decarbonisation, skills and employment programmes, and community engagement initiatives.

At MAG, we recognise that creating a first-class journey for our customers starts by creating a first-class career journey for our colleagues. We are committed to building inclusive environments in which our people can thrive.

You'll also have access to some great benefits including:

• Free onsite parking
• Subsidised public transport
• Huge range of company discounts
• 2 volunteering days per year
• Free Virtual GP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Care Concierge service

As a SAP Group Reporting Analyst
, you'll play a critical role in MAG's Finance Transformation Programme as we migrate from SAP ECC to S/4

HANA Private Cloud.

Working within our Technology team, you'll act as the internal subject matter expert for SAP Group Reporting, partnering with Finance, Technology, Solution Architects and implementation partners to help shape and deliver a modern, scalable finance technology landscape.

You'll be embedded within the transformation programme from the earliest design stages through to go-live and post-implementation stabilisation, ensuring solutions are aligned to business requirements, SAP best practice and Clean Core principles. This is not a role where you'll simply review the work of others. You'll be the organisation's go-to expert for Group Reporting, providing challenge, insight and direction throughout the programme lifecycle.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys combining deep SAP expertise with business analysis, stakeholder engagement and problem solving within a large-scale transformation environment.

• Acting as the business-owned lead for the SAP Group Reporting workstream throughout the Finance Transformation Programme.
• Participating in fit-to-standard workshops and ensuring solutions reflect MAG's business and reporting requirements.
• Reviewing and constructively challenging system integrator designs, configurations and functional specifications.
• Defining functional and technical requirements in collaboration with architects and implementation partners.
• Supporting the design and optimisation of consolidation processes, reporting structures and financial controls.
• Leading User Acceptance Testing activities and developing test scenarios based on real-world consolidation cycles.
• Supporting data readiness activities, including opening balances, entity structures and intercompany validation.
• Developing and delivering end-user training and supporting business adoption of new solutions.
• Identifying opportunities to improve finance processes, reporting and operational efficiency through SAP technology.
• Supporting go-live, hypercare and post-implementation stabilisation activities.

You'll bring strong SAP Finance expertise alongside a passion for solving business challenges through technology. You'll be comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and have the confidence to challenge, influence and drive better outcomes.

• Hands-on experience configuring SAP S/4
  
  HANA Group Reporting.
• Strong understanding of consolidation processes, including eliminations, currency translation, minority interests and group reporting structures.
• Experience of at least two full SAP implementation life cycles from discovery through to go-live.
• Strong knowledge of the Universal Journal and consolidation data flows within S/4
  
  HANA.
• Experience supporting period-end and year-end close processes within an SAP environment.
• Strong business and systems analysis skills, with the ability to gather requirements and translate them into effective solutions.
• Experience reviewing and challenging functional…