Finance Data Analyst

Overview

1. Strategy Enablement & Data Translation

• Act as the primary bridge between Finance and IT, ensuring that finance and business requirements area accurately captured and embedded early into platform and solution design.
• Lead strategic, finance-centric data initiatives such as activity-based costing and margin analytics
• Identify and prioritize high-impact data use cases that drive financial insight and strategic value.

2. Data Governance & Quality

• Post-rollout, lead efforts around data governance, quality control, and data cataloguing.
• Ensure consistent understanding, clarity and adoption of key financial metrics like EBITDA, aligned with Company standards, and emphasize their importance over EBIT or Net Income in decision-making.
• Advocate for strong data discipline across the organization. Promote data literacy across the Finance function and ensure business users understand and trust the data.
• 3.
• Analytical Development & Delivery of Use cases
• Sponsor or co-own Finance-led data use cases, including AI, forecasting models, and machine learning applications.
• Leverage SQL, Python, and Power Apps for advanced querying, reporting, and visual storytelling.
• Collaborate closely with internal and external developers, data engineers, scientists, and business units to drive actionable insights.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors' or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL and Power Apps.
• 3-6 years of experience in data-centric roles, ideally within Finance, FP&A, or Data Strategy.
• Ideally, experience in financial or operational analytics, with a solid understanding of business impact and performance metrics.
• Experience with SAP S4 HANA and other ERP systems and expertise in Excel for data analysis, modeling, and reporting.
• Highly proficient in data extraction from various sources and systems, with the ability to manage, retrieve and reconcile multiple data points on a regular basis.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills; able to challenge constructively and bridge the gap between business and technical teams.