Senior Finance Analyst - Accounting and Reporting SAP

World beating pharmaceutical company are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Finance Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will support the deployment of our strategic business improvements through the SAP Programme and S/4HANA. You will act as a central point for transitioning from ECC to S/4 with regards to accounting & reporting.

Typical Accountabilities:

• Acts as a source of knowledge in one or more areas of Finance as we transition between design & deployment
• Prioritises business improvement issues and delivers own business improvement findings and recommendations to a cross-functional team, specifically covering the creation of the finance, accounting and reporting process
• Working with the SAP solution for general accounting and reporting to exploit standard SAP S/4 HANA functionality
• Collaborate with the data team as we transition from one data model to another
• Enables cross-functional sharing of business improvement ideas
• Co-ordinates the development and presentation of best options for transitioning between systems e
• Keeps own knowledge of best practices on business information and intelligence
• Review of documentation from other areas of SAP programme where they relate to this process eg testing, training, deployment and process adoption

Essential:

• Strong Accountancy experience qual/part qual ACCA or CIMA
• Experience in SAP transitioning to S/4HANA
• Previous experience within a global finance department (General accounting and reporting) in a multi- national organisation
• Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline