Finance Systems Analyst

The role

You will monitor finance systems, investigate data and reporting issues, and help resolve them. You will also support system changes, new reporting needs and possible automation, working with Finance, data and Technology colleagues.

What you will do

• Monitor finance systems, investigate alerts and help resolve issues affecting data flows and reporting.
• Carry out system administration and month-end controls, documenting access and changes.
• Investigate the root cause of data and reconciliation issues, and propose practical solutions.
• Work with Finance, data and Technology colleagues to understand requirements and agree priorities.
• Contribute to preparation and testing for the new general ledger and wider systems change.
• Support new reporting requirements and product launches, balancing interim fixes with longer-term improvements.
• Explore opportunities to automate processes, with appropriate checks and controls.

Required qualifications

• Understanding of finance, accounting and reporting processes, applied to systems or data problems.
• Ability to investigate unclear problems and explain findings and recommendations.
• Careful approach to system changes, with attention to testing, documentation and controls.
• Ability to organise competing requests and communicate clearly with a range of stakeholders.
• Ownership of work, willingness to seek support when needed, and eagerness to learn new systems and ways of working.

Nice to have

• Experience administering finance systems or supporting SAP.
• Working knowledge of SQL, visualisation or reconciliations across data sources.
• Exposure to financial services, regulated environments or ERP migrations.
• Experience with automation, AI, Snowflake, Python or dbt.

Benefits

• Flexible ways of working.
• Option to work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to right to work.
• Support to thrive in work and home life from day one.

Before you apply

• Zopa expects employees to use AI as part of their jobs.
• Behavioural and competency-based interviews: AI use is not permitted.
• Technical interviews: AI use depends on the stage; the Talent Partner will say what is expected.

About the company

Zopa is a UK bank, started in 2005 as a peer-to-peer lending company and launched as Zopa Bank in 2020. It has been named in the top three UK's Most Loved Workplaces.