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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Finance Automations Developer - **Company:** Balfour Beatty plc - **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Software Bug Management, Cloud Computing, Data Transmissions, Data Mining, Data Presentation, Digital Technology, Machine Learning, Microsoft Office, Power BI, SQL Databases, Microsoft Power Automate, Powerquery, Data Lakes, Information Technology, Vba Programming Language, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 27, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=aee1cd7008a63df2 ## About the Role * Experience in office process analysis * Expertise with MS Office automation tools (EG: VBA and/or Power Automate) * Experience with Robotic, Agentic and AI-powered process automation (EG: Power Automate) * Experience with planning and orchestration of Robotic and/or Agentic process flows, including workflow optimisation * Understanding and vision of best practices within digital technology teams * Understanding of the opportunities presented by evolving technologies Data Automation * Experience with financial data sets * Expertise in data extraction and transformation (EG: SQL and/or Power Query) * Experience in presenting data analysis and creating reports * Experience in Power BI report creation and maintenance * Experience in ML-based data analysis and decision-making * Understanding of the importance of data modelling for modern digital solutions, especially machine learning analysis Working Methods * Ability to collaborate in a project-based team * Understanding of a Lean continuous improvement project mindset * Strong organisational skills and ability to communicate with both technical and managerial stakeholders. * Knowledge of emerging technologies in the automation area, and skills needed to stay abreast of continuing developments (EG: RPA, Agentic Orchestration) ## Description As Finance Automations Developer, you will be responsible for creating automation tools, primarily to be used within the Finance Operations department, as well as maintaining and providing support for such automation tools across the Finance function, ensuring automations produced are professional, stable, and well-supported. In addition to this, you will be responsible for the timely delivery of operational reporting, and ensuring the smooth running of existing centrally automated tasks. What you'll be doing New Process Automations * Use digital technology to automate office tasks within the Finance function. This is accomplished with the full suite of existent and emerging digital technologies, e.g. cloud computing, machine learning, digital robots and AI/copilot-enabled programming. * Work with the Finance Transformation team, and the Finance Automations Product Manager, to ensure that automations are built to a common standard and that relevant documentation is filled out to a professional standard. * Collaborate with end users to ensure that automations created for usage by other teams present a good user experience, including meaningful error messages and a comprehensible user guide. * Where the responsibility for automated tasks needs to rest within the Automations team, ensure that timelines are clearly laid out and understood. Automation Maintenance * Support the business by providing support for existing automations built by the Automations team, including bug fixing, troubleshooting, configuration and re- training. * Work with the Finance Automations Product Manager to carry out periodic reviews of previously created automations, updating and/or archiving tools appropriately when they are no longer fit for purpose. Centralised Process Automations (Including Robotic and AI-Agentic Automations) * Where automations are complex and/or time-sensitive enough that they must be operated by the Automations team, ensure the timely and consistent delivery of such. * Continue to drive "true" automation by converting manually triggered automation tools into robotically automated processes and/or data pipelines. * Work with the IT Data Department to convert existing automations for data transfer into proper data pipelines, making data tables available through the Data Lake. * Create and maintain live reports for key metrics using Power BI, to replace Excel-based reports currently being produced both within the team and by managers across Finance ## Related Videos - [Intelligent Automation using Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/157-intelligent-automation-using-machine-learning) - [Empowering Retail Through Applied Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/976-empowering-retail-through-applied-machine-learning) - [Beyond Dashboards: Fixing Text-to-SQL with Semantic RAG](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2036-beyond-dashboards-fixing-text-to-sql-with-semantic-rag) - [Data Analytics with Microsoft Fabric: End-to-End Use Case with Data Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1547-data-analytics-with-microsoft-fabric-end-to-end-use-case-with-data-agents) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) - [REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and more: A comparison of modern API styles](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100247-rest-graphql-grpc-and-more-a-comparison-of-modern-api-styles) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Fullstack Developer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/251-fullstack-developer-salary-uk) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Mastering Remote Work: Tips for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/558-mastering-remote-work-tips-for-developers)