Finance Data Senior Analyst - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Virgin Money

Virgin Money

Verified Company

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Business Unit:
Financial Control, Finance

Salary range:
up to circa £45,000 DOE

Location:
Flexible

Contract Type:
Permanent

Join the data revolution

Across Financial Control, we're looking to invest in the skills that we need to deliver our digital and innovation agenda.

We have a range of roles across a range of data disciplines at a range of levels, including some short training-based secondments forthose looking to dip a toe into a whole new world.

This role is at the intermediate level here, we're looking for some experience in using data for reporting purposes but not for experts.

You will need to be able to evidence that you've run data processes, reviewed controls and helped to identify issuesand provide assistance with solutions.

Training in this role will be on the job, more than classroom so you will be getting off to a fast start, creating reports and building datasets from the first week.

You will be working agile but with a team of experienced colleagues. Our promise is to giveyou the opportunities to succeed and grow whilst delivering real value for customers and colleagues.

Day to day, you'll be doing one or more of the

Preparing and creating trusted data using SAS, SQL or similar tools
Make our data controls stronger and change those of the Group for the better
Provide continuous support for the existing services that we provide
Building a data control framework within Financial Control
Role modelling great data practice for our Finance colleagues
Carry out regular data tasks
Represent the Financial Control function in data strategy sessions
Training nonspecialists to love data the way that you do

The team you'll be joining has had lots of skilled people in lots of different disciplines - ranging from former summer school drama teacher, tennis umpire, mum, SQL experts, central banking economist, singers, central bankers, football coach, statisticalmodelling experts, dad, econometricians, service personnel, rocket scientists, cooks, farmers, golfers, taxi drivers.

We speak at least four languages, have been on television lots and live all over the country. Some of us work 9-5 and others don't work Wednesdays.
We love working a Life More Virgin (and not always at home or in the office).

The team will be relied on for technical excellence and reliable outputs so quality assurance and attention to detail are key to how we work so well together.

Our outputs are seen by our exec, our board, our shareholders, our customers and the whole world.

We already own a robust process that runs without fail every month and we fit perfectly into the wider reporting cycles of the Group when we need to.

What we need from you for this role is

Experience of determining priorities
You will be expected to participate in the planning process as well as to deliver work.
An understanding of the value of data quality and practical experience of improving it
We want to drive the move for the Group to better data quality management from the inside
A love of innovation
Our work will largely be new, and our solutions driven by value, rather than process. This will mean that often we will need some imagination.

What we would like you to have

Experience of the Group's data infrastructures.
All knowledge welcome but more is better
Understanding of existing Finance processes
We're looking to add to what we do and need people who recognise the opportunities
An idea of where you'd like to go next
Our team is a great place to stay. But it can also be the steppingstone to all sorts of other opportunities. We will be an intersection between Finance and Data, Risk and Commercial.

We would really like to hear from people for whom this sounds like nearly the right role, but not quite.

If it's not the role for you, we'll tell you, but we'll also try to explain why not and what you might need to do if this is to be your next role ornext role but one.

We'll describe the journeys that we've been on to get here and why we love this role most of the time.

We do have roles at different levels, including roles where potential is more important than experience, but we do have even more experienced roles too, where you can continue to develop your technical prowess.

Even though we're using SAS and SQL, we likeusing new technologies and want to be the front of the queue for the new Azure toolkit if we can.

To be honest, we also quite like Excel.

Inclusion at Virgin Money
**Now the legal bit
**Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us.

This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.