Senior Finance Systems Analyst

About the role

Responsibilities

• Provide incident and helpdesk support, system administration, master-data and access activity, and recertification.
• Support control evidence, operational monitoring, testing, documentation, and user enablement.
• Support Change Assessment and Routing L1/L2 triage and finance-side change-control lifecycle evidence.
• Keep activities visible, evidenced, coordinated, and supportable across BAU and change.
• Escalate risks, gaps, dependencies, and control issues when broader ownership or judgement is needed.
• Support finance-side systems controls; relevant line, process, and control owners retain accountability for their business processes, controls, and operational decisions.
• Investigate issues, gather evidence, identify dependencies, and work with finance users, SMEs, Technology colleagues, vendors, consultants, and control owners.

Minimum criteria

• Relevant experience in finance-side systems, processes, audit, controls, and systems change.
• Hands-on experience with finance-side systems support, administration, testing, evidence, issue investigation, or controlled change.
• Experience with core finance platforms or system-dependent finance processes, such as ERP/accounting, treasury/banking, payments, reconciliation, planning, reporting, or service-management systems.
• Practical understanding of finance-side systems controls and their importance to BAU stability, auditability, and compliance.
• Experience supporting, assuring, or delivering finance-side systems change, including testing, implementation, and BAU transition.
• Effective communication, judgement, stakeholder-management, and analytical skills.

Desirable experience

• A qualified accountant is desirable.
• Experience in large, complex, regulated, agile, or matrix organisations is desirable.
• Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, Alfa or comparable asset/lease-finance platforms, IT2, HSBCnet, Bottomline, AutoRek, OAS/OBIEE, Hyperion/SmartView, Jira/JSM, ServiceNow, or comparable enterprise finance systems is desirable.
• Experience supporting finance master data, access, recertification, administration, control evidence, testing, upgrades, releases, or BAU transition is desirable.

Working approach

• The role requires strong finance grounding, practical systems capability, attention to detail, sound judgement, and disciplined control of change.
• The successful candidate is organised, analytical, pragmatic, proactive, and flexible, and communicates clearly while managing competing priorities.
• The role combines hands-on systems work with trusted finance systems support and operational continuity.