Planning and Reporting Finance Associate (FT25)

Background
This is a unique opportunity for an intern to join a busy finance team, at a very exciting time, as we will have implemented our new Finance System, Oracle. You will join the Business Planning and Reporting Team, work alongside and be supported by a number of qualified accountants and business partners, to reimagine processes and uncover opportunities delivered by this system. The role will be project based but it will be varied and enable the candidate to build an understanding of the day-to-day workings of this area of finance.

Key Responsibilities
You will support the Business Planning and Reporting Team in the post-implementation phase of the new Oracle Finance System. Your work will involve reconciling financial data, testing system-generated reports, and helping document new processes. You’ll contribute to audit preparations and collaborate with colleagues to improve reporting and financial operations. 

•  Reconciliations between data sets, understanding variances and working with team members to understand reasons for any discrepancies.
• Testing system reports for robustness ensuring they are representative of the system data.
• Participating in conversations and drafting/refining process notes and process-maps, to be used across the team to support the use of the new Oracle system.
• Producing evidence of the efficacy of the move from the old to the new system to support the financial audit.

•  Understanding of how a finance department works.
• Experience using a large Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, Oracle. Essential to almost every role within a finance department.
• The project work will allow for some autonomy in seeking solutions, both independently and collaboratively, and should improve problem solving abilities.
• You will be working alongside people of different levels potentially both internal and external to the department.  This will hone abilities to effectively communicate with different audiences.
• Teamwork will be improved as you take opportunities to learn from and work with people to achieve a common goal.
• Manipulating and analysing data will form a large part of most tasks and as such the skill will be greatly improved.

•  Proficient with standard office IT applications, notably Excel, as well as the ability to learn how to access and interrogate in-house systems.
• Ability to work both independently as well as part of a team, depending on the nature of the task being undertaken.
• Communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing to different audiences.
• Good time management skills, with the ability to meet deadlines or if required manage expectations in a timely manner. More than one task could be allocated at a time, so an ability to prioritise becomes essential.

• An understanding of Accounting / Finance would be desirable but not essential. A candidate should however, be able to demonstrate an interest in working in finance in the future.
• Work experience within a finance department would be helpful.