Finance Data Quality & Validation Analyst

LE010 Antares Global Management Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 63,000; Full time

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Job summary

Antares is seeking a Data Analyst to shape and validate finance data for a major transformation programme aligned with Workday Financials. You will work across finance and technology teams to ensure data moving through finance systems is accurate, traceable and ready for reporting and audit.

The role focuses on data ingestion, mapping, validation and reporting datasets, with emphasis on data lineage and controls to support SIT/UAT and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define required finance data attributes, field definitions, and dataset requirements to support reporting, reconciliations, and downstream journal creation.
• Analyse and document source-to-target mappings so that finance data is aligned to agreed structures, Workday-required values, and reporting needs.
• Support data ingestion activities by validating incoming datasets, checking completeness, and confirming that records are fit for downstream processing.
• Design and execute reconciliation logic across source data, outputs, Prism datasets, Accounting Centre outputs, and reporting results.
• Identify data quality issues, investigate root causes, and work with business and technical teams to improve data accuracy and control effectiveness.
• Define point-in-time and snapshot requirements so period reporting remains traceable, explainable, and auditable over time.
• Prepare analytics-ready datasets and report specifications for Workday and approved downstream reporting tools.
• Produce validation evidence to support SIT, UAT, production readiness, and ongoing finance control requirements.
• Look at historical data to check its fit for the rules in Financial & Actuarial (F&A) module.
• Analyse and document finance data structures and reporting requirements, maintaining robust data lineage and controls.

Job description

Antares is seeking a Data Analyst to shape and validate finance data for a major transformation programme aligned with Workday Financials. You will work across finance and technology teams to ensure data moving through finance systems is accurate, traceable and ready for reporting and audit.

The role focuses on data ingestion, mapping, validation and reporting datasets, with emphasis on data lineage and controls to support SIT/UAT and production readiness.