Finance Business Analyst
- Recruiter
- Murphy Group
- Location
-
Lancashire
North West EnglandUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 07 Jun 2021
- Closes
- 21 Jun 2021
- Job Title
- Chief Economist
- Category
- Engineering
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world–class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; water; power; natural resources; and construction & property.Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities.
Finance Business Analyst
Based Golborne
The Finance Business Analyst will support the finance function through the provision of business analytics; improve and transform business processes, providing more efficient ways of working, better supported through technology whilst also being is responsible for measuring the performance and ensuring the delivery of services against agreed SLA's with the business units.
The Finance Business Analyst will:
• Design improved business processes; create more efficient ways of operating by working with not only the SSC process owners but the wider finance team, providing guidance and challenge in the design activity; this will include:
– Gathering requirements, document analysis, requirement workshops, surveys, site visits, business cases, business analysis, scenarios, task and workflow analysis
– Critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low–level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the true underlying needs
– Proactively communicating and collaborating with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements
– Maintain all control frameworks pertaining to Finance Shared Services
– Produce monthly reporting packs across Finance Shared Services, whilst updating and reporting on KPI's
– Point of contact for updating of any testing scripts for Finance SSC relating to any D365 upgrades, improvements etc
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Point of contact for any changes to Power BI Reporting for new or existing reports
The role holder will support all Murphy Business Units (which may contain Joint Ventures) and Functional Areas in the UK
Skills and experience:
* Proven experience as a Business Analyst (BA) in a similar sized organisation
* Experience of presenting financial information to non–finance professionals
* Championed and lead continuous improvement initiatives in Finance
* Microsoft Dynamics 365 or AX experience would be of significant advantage
* Working knowledge of MS Office products, and Power BI
* Some working of knowl3edge of the construction, engineering or project management industries may be beneficial
Finance Business Analyst
Based Golborne
The Finance Business Analyst will support the finance function through the provision of business analytics; improve and transform business processes, providing more efficient ways of working, better supported through technology whilst also being is responsible for measuring the performance and ensuring the delivery of services against agreed SLA's with the business units.
The Finance Business Analyst will:
• Design improved business processes; create more efficient ways of operating by working with not only the SSC process owners but the wider finance team, providing guidance and challenge in the design activity; this will include:
– Gathering requirements, document analysis, requirement workshops, surveys, site visits, business cases, business analysis, scenarios, task and workflow analysis
– Critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low–level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the true underlying needs
– Proactively communicating and collaborating with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements
– Maintain all control frameworks pertaining to Finance Shared Services
– Produce monthly reporting packs across Finance Shared Services, whilst updating and reporting on KPI's
– Point of contact for updating of any testing scripts for Finance SSC relating to any D365 upgrades, improvements etc
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Point of contact for any changes to Power BI Reporting for new or existing reports
The role holder will support all Murphy Business Units (which may contain Joint Ventures) and Functional Areas in the UK
Skills and experience:
* Proven experience as a Business Analyst (BA) in a similar sized organisation
* Experience of presenting financial information to non–finance professionals
* Championed and lead continuous improvement initiatives in Finance
* Microsoft Dynamics 365 or AX experience would be of significant advantage
* Working knowledge of MS Office products, and Power BI
* Some working of knowl3edge of the construction, engineering or project management industries may be beneficial