Elevation Recruitment Group are excited to be working in partnership with a well-established firm based in the Doncaster area as they look to recruit an Operations Data Analyst into their busy finance team, on a full time, permanent basis.

Reporting into the Head of Finance, this is a rare and exciting opportunity for someone with a wealth of knowledge within payroll and transactional finance, to utilise their strong analytical skills to manipulate high volumes of data and provide a variety of figures and reports to the senior management team.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for managing a small team within transactional finance, therefore, previous staff management experience is required.

Duties of the Operations Data Analyst will include:

*Management and development of a small team within transactional finance through clear targets, creating a high achievement environment, allocating resource as required in order to ensure key objectives and deadlines are met
*Work closely with Payroll, Accounts Payable as necessary to extract data across the various systems in place to create, develop and produce reports as required including completion of legislation, compliance and audit requests
*Design and develop a data suite of KPI metrics, reports and dashboards to support the management of transactional finance functions
*Contribute to process improvement initiatives to enhance accuracy and efficiency
*Manage the payments process to ensure timely execution, appropriate approvals and controls are in place
*Assist the Payroll Manager in the annual reporting requirements to include data gathering and presentation of information in line with the agreed timescales

Person specification:

*Proven track record as a data analyst: capturing user requirements; interacting with key stakeholders to gather information
*Strong time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
*Ability to create and deliver KPI metrics, SLAs and dashboards to support the transactional finance function
*Strong analytical skills and attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
*Experience of working at a high level in a transactional finance environment with people management skills
*Strong systems skills including Microsoft Excel

If you feel that you have the relevant skills to be considered for this opportunity, please feel free to apply today. Alternatively, you can contact Beth Liversidge at Elevation Recruitment Group to discuss further