AddressWe are looking to add a Finance Data Operations Manager to our Finance Operations team. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to build a career within a company focussed on helping researchers expand the reaches of human knowledge.
The successful candidate will be responsible for building a small but highly skilled team to create, execute, and manage a strong data architecture that meets our financial data requirements and provision the business with high quality visualisation based reporting.
This role is crucial in ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and accessibility of financial data for informed decision-making. Your expertise will contribute to the organization's ability to derive valuable insights from financial data, enabling data-driven strategies and improved financial performance.
What you’ll be doing:
This role will lead the team that creates and executes the data models and structures that enable financial reporting, analysis and decision making. The role will support the data structures that underpin our main T&F Finance applications and of TM1, Alteryx and Power BI. This will require sourcing and integrating multiple data sources from across the T&F estate including third party providers. This includes ownership of the Power BI estate and hands on support for daily operations, as well as, medium and long-term development to align with business needs and strategy.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Team Leadership
· Build and lead a small but high-performing team of Data Operations analysts
· Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to team members.
· Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture.
Data Modelling
· Develop and implement a comprehensive financial data architecture strategy.
· Design and develop Power BI data models and visualisation reports that accurately represent the structure and relationships of financial data aligned to business objectives.
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate financial data architecture into existing systems and processes.
Data Integration
· Integrate financial data from various sources, including ERP systems, databases, external APIs, and spreadsheets, into comprehensive and coherent data models.
· Primary Finance representative on data governance programmes
· Build a data estate that provides a platform for future financial analytics work.
Data Transformation
· Implement data transformation and cleansing processes to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and adherence to financial reporting standards.
· Create comprehensive documentation for data models, making it accessible to relevant stakeholders and ensuring a clear understanding of data structures and relationships.
· Optimize data models to enable efficient querying, reporting, and analytics, working to improve data retrieval speeds and system performance.
· Establish and maintain data quality standards and implement data validation checks to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
Technology Evaluation and Adoption
· Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends in data management.
· Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies that enhance the financial data architecture.
· Lead the implementation and adoption of new technologies within the team.
Collaboration
· Collaborate with finance, IT, and business teams to understand data requirements.
· Communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment of data architecture with business goals.
· Provide regular updates and reports on data architecture initiatives
