Finance Systems Analyst
Finance Systems Analyst
Company: Albany Beck
Location: London (Hybrid)
Start Date: Immediate
Client Industry: Wealth Management
About Albany Beck
Albany Beck is a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development.
Role Overview
Albany Beck is growing its Change & Transformation Practice and is looking to hire a Finance Systems Analyst, with an immediate deployment opportunity onsite with one of our largest and most globally recognised, Wealth Management clients, based in London. This role is ideal for someone with strong analytical capability, advanced Excel skills, and an interest in finance systems, reporting, and data management. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring Finance teams have accurate, reliable, and timely data to support reporting, planning, and business decision-making. The role combines finance systems administration, data model management, reporting support, and troubleshooting across a range of platforms including TM1 (Planning Analytics), Power BI, Coupa, and financial reporting systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the administration and maintenance of finance systems and reporting data models
- Ensure finance-owned data structures remain accurate, logical, and aligned to business requirements
- Maintain finance master reference data, hierarchies, and mappings across reporting systems
- Support ongoing enhancements to finance reporting and control frameworks
- Support management reporting and financial planning processes within TM1 (Planning Analytics)
- Monitor and troubleshoot daily data loads and integrations
- Support ad-hoc analysis and reporting requests from Finance stakeholders
- Maintain user access controls and system documentation
- Assist with future TM1 development and enhancement activities
- Support the refresh, maintenance, and publishing of Power BI dashboards and reporting models
- Monitor overnight refreshes and troubleshoot data or reporting issues
- Ensure reporting outputs are accurate, timely, and aligned to stakeholder requirements
- Assist in improving reporting capability and automation across Finance
- Support month-end finance system activities and ledger maintenance
- Help maintain reporting hierarchies including GL, Cost Centre, Project, and Transit structures
- Ensure changes to finance data control frameworks are implemented accurately
- Contribute to maintaining strong financial reporting integrity and governance
- Monitor overnight integrations and system processes across finance applications
- Support troubleshooting and issue resolution across multiple finance systems
- Assist with regression testing and system upgrades where required
- Work closely with IT, Data, Operations, and Finance stakeholders to resolve issues and improve processes
Key Skills & Experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Advanced Excel skills are essential
- Experience working with large datasets and reporting systems
- Understanding of financial reporting and budgeting principles
- Strong attention to detail and data accuracy
- Ability to manage workload effectively in a deadline-driven environment
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Desirable Experience
- Experience with TM1 / IBM Planning Analytics
- Power BI experience or exposure
- SQL knowledge or understanding
- Understanding of system development lifecycle, change management, or configuration management
- Experience within Financial Services or regulated environments
Personal Attributes
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail
- Proactive and solutions-focused mindset
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- Comfortable working independently and collaboratively
- Eager to learn and develop technical and finance systems expertise
Key Stakeholders
- Finance Systems Management teams
- Financial Control & Performance Management teams
- Data & Technology teams
- Operational and Business stakeholders