About the Role
This six-month fixed-term contract focuses on automating financial reporting, simplifying processes, and strengthening data flow between financial reporting and trading platforms. The role involves reconciling outputs between Vena and trading/BI systems, and eliminating manual steps.
Responsibilities
- Map the team's reporting calendar and eliminate manual steps through platform configuration, scripting, and AI tooling.
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies between Vena and trading/BI systems, fixing root causes.
- Build reliable, repeatable reconciliation processes.
- Support the wider FP&A team with commercial analysis, reforecast consolidation, and ad hoc requests.
Requirements
- Track record of automating manual reporting and planning steps.
- Experience navigating and fixing discrepancies between financial reporting and operational or trading systems.
- Hands-on experience building, maintaining, or administering a CPM/EPM platform (Vena, Anaplan, TM1, Adaptive Insights, OneStream, Hyperion, or similar).
- High attention to detail.
- Initiative and ownership; comfortable working independently and navigating ambiguity.
Skills
- Financial systems
- CPM platform administration
- Reporting automation
- Data reconciliation
- Commercial analysis
- Scripting
- AI tooling
Location
- London, Victoria, UK (HQ)
Work Type
- 6-month Fixed-Term Contract
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Analyst
About the Company
- World of Books is the world's largest seller of used books, founded in 2002 to give books a second life.
- We are a certified B Corp with a mission to become the Planet's Bookstore.
- We have scaled profitably with investment from Livingbridge since 2021.
