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Oliver James are mandated by their global consulting client to support in the hiring of a Senior Data Analytics Manager as part of rapid consolidation and growth of their leading market position. The role can be based in London or Manchester with a hybrid arrangement available if needed. The basic salary can reach c£100,000 before extras such as broad benefits, annual bonus, pension etc.

Oliver James are mandated by their global consulting client to support in the hiring of a Senior Data Analytics Manager as part of rapid consolidation and growth of their leading market position. The role can be based in London or Manchester with a hybrid arrangement available if needed. The basic salary can reach c£100,000 before extras such as broad benefits, annual bonus, pension etc.

Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Owning and delivering client engagements
• Data management, including data extraction and data cleansing processes;
• Analytics and reporting, including visualisation of data to help organisations manage business risk establish the right controls, processes and structures to ensure that information can be trusted and improve decision-making;
• Advanced analytics, where we use data science techniques to help our clients navigate future risks and opportunities through predictive and prescriptive analytics.

Essential Skills:

• Strong market credentials in data & analytics working with large organisations and an ability to demonstrate knowledge and insight in data management, data cleansing and data analytics
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including communication with senior stakeholders of a non-data background (being able to communicate technical issues in simple business terms) and excellent reporting writing skills;
• Solid experience in managing projects, including developing project plans, budgets and deliverables schedules;
• Experience of managing people both in terms of managing delivery teams and providing coaching to individuals;
• Experience of the full engagement delivery lifecycle including risk and stakeholder management;
• Strong leadership skills an experience
• Proven analytical and problem solving capabilities on complex engagements;

Desirable Skills:

• Basic finance process knowledge (Order to Cash, Purchase to Pay, Financial Services etc) and how ERPs manage and structure the data;
• Audit experience, and experience of applying data analytics within the external audit process; and
• Use of technology in data & analytics including for use in providing managed services

Technical Skills:

Knowledge and experience of at least three of the following:

• Data extraction from financial accounting systems;
• Data clearing techniques and tools
• A vision of how data analytics are going to be applied and development in the external audit practice
• Understanding of key accounting principles and process cycles including revenue to receivables, purchase to cash
• Data analytic technology such as Alteryx, SQL, Python, R,
• SQL (preferably SQL Server) and data manipulation; and
• Machine learning techniques
• Use of visualisation technologies such as Power BI and Tableau

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor degree or demonstrable experience working with Data
• At least 8 years' experience working in data analytics or data related environments; and
• A technical background in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Accounting or similar is desirable