Financial Systems Analyst


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Recruiter

National Audit Office

Listed on

12th July 2018

Location

London

Salary/Rate

London: £50,585 - £61, 988 per annum. Newcastle: £41,002 - £56,224 per annum.

Salary Notes

London: £50,585 - £61, 988 per annum. Newcastle: £41,002 - £56,224 per annum.

Type

Permanent

Start Date

Sep-Nov 2018

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Business area: IT

Location: London, Newcastle

Salary: London: £50,585 - £61, 988 per annum. Newcastle: £41,002 - £56,224 per annum.

Type of contract: Permanent

Main Purpose of the job:

The National Audit Office (NAO) supports Parliament to hold the government to account for the way public services are delivered. Our primary role is to scrutinise public spending for Parliament. We do this by certifying over 350 government accounts and produce around 65 Value for Money (VFM) reports each year.

In this role we will expect you to spend most of your time applying your knowledge of financial systems such as SAP and Oracle and your analytical skills to build and implement analytical tools to support our range of assurance work. For example, take a look at the data visualisations presented on our website: https://www.nao.org.uk/data-visualisations/

You will join our Data Analytics Research Team, working with a team of data analysts and data scientists to develop and deliver analytical tools for our financial audit practice, alongside ad-hoc support for our VFM teams. Supervision of junior staff and some project management of analytical projects is expected, along with delivery of training, and review and quality assurance of work completed.

Required competencies include:

Abilities

Present complex data or other findings in a way which can be easily understood by the various audiences

Document and analyse Financial Systems and control processes.

Produce clear, well-structured and succinct written work which can be easily understood by non-technical readers

Attributes

Experience auditing complex financial systems such as SAP and Oracle.

Experience with Data Visualisation tools (Tableau, Spotfire, Qlikview etc).

Intellectual curiosity, especially about using data, models and evidence to answer questions

Desirable

Experience with programming languages, preferably R or Python

Experience with Git

Good data manipulation skills required including cleaning and managing data

You must be a UK, Commonwealth, EEA or Swiss national to comply with Civil Service nationality rules and must hold a valid work permit. We are not able to sponsor work visas.

Recruitment Process:

To apply candidates should provide an up to date CV and covering letter setting out briefly why they are suitable for this role.

The closing date for applications is Friday 27th July 2018, 12pm.

Successful candidates from the sifting stage will be invited for a face-to-face interview which also includes a task (details will be forwarded to interview candidates).

Full details of the responsibilities and required competencies can be found in the job description on our website.

Click apply now to view the full job description and apply!

Interview dates: Weeks commencing 30th July and 6th August 2018.

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