Finance Systems Analyst

Buro Happold; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Flexible benefits

Parenthood leave

3pm finish on last Friday of the month

Learning and development programme

Professional body memberships

Job summary

Buro Happold in Bath is seeking a Financial Systems Analyst to join our hybridFinance team. You will enhance finance systems, gather requirements, and support IT resources to deliver projects on schedule.

The role requires strong financial analysis, Excel expertise, and the ability to communicate with diverse stakeholders. Experience with Unit4/Deltek Vantagepoint is a plus; professional services or engineering backgrounds are advantageous.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified CIMA or ACCA, or working towards a professional finance qualification.
• Strong financial analysis skills with excellent numerical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working with accounting and financial systems, including systems development or enhancement activities.
• Experience operating within both project-based and business-as-usual environments.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with data and financial reporting tools.
• Comfortable communicating with both finance and non-finance stakeholders across different levels of the organisation.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise competing demands and work effectively to deadlines.
• A proactive, collaborative and self-motivated individual who enjoys driving improvements and solving complex challenges.
• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to delivering accurate, high-quality work.
• Experience within professional services, engineering or construction environments would be advantageous.
• Exposure to Unit4 and/or Deltek Vantagepoint would be beneficial but is not essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver finance system enhancements including testing, implementation, user training and post-go-live support.
• Gather finance requirements and translate them into detailed, well-defined IT project briefs.
• Support the coordination of finance and IT resources to ensure projects are delivered successfully and on schedule.
• Create and maintain system documentation, process guides and user training materials.
• Support system upgrades, including testing, issue resolution and sign-off activities.
• Ensure appropriate controls are in place to minimise risk and maintain the integrity of finance systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve finance processes and maximise the value of existing systems.
• Collaborate with Finance and IT teams to meet evolving business requirements and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Act as a key point of contact for finance system queries and support colleagues across the global business.
• Contribute to ad hoc projects and initiatives as required by Finance leadership.

Skills

Financial analysis

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Data analysis

Organisation

Self-motivation

Education

Part-qualified CIMA/ACCA

Tools

Unit4

Deltek Vantagepoint

Excel

Job description

Ready to Combine Finance, Technology and Business Change? Join Buro Happold as a Financial Systems Analyst.

This person can be based in our Bath office on a hybrid working model.

At Buro Happold, we are driven by a commitment to creating a better future through engineering, design and advisory expertise. As part of our global finance team, you'll have the opportunity to play a key role in improving the systems, processes and technology that support our international business.

About The Role

We're looking for someone with strong financial and analytical capability, a passion for systems and process improvement, and the confidence to work with stakeholders at all levels.

Key responsibilities include

• Deliver finance system enhancements including testing, implementation, user training and post-go-live support.
• Gather finance requirements and translate them into detailed, well-defined IT project briefs.
• Support the coordination of finance and IT resources to ensure projects are delivered successfully and on schedule.
• Create and maintain system documentation, process guides and user training materials.
• Support system upgrades, including testing, issue resolution and sign-off activities.
• Ensure appropriate controls are in place to minimise risk and maintain the integrity of finance systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve finance processes and maximise the value of existing systems.
• Collaborate with Finance and IT teams to meet evolving business requirements and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Act as a key point of contact for finance system queries and support colleagues across the global business.
• Contribute to ad hoc projects and initiatives as required by Finance leadership.

About You

• Part-qualified CIMA or ACCA, or working towards a professional finance qualification.
• Strong financial analysis skills with excellent numerical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working with accounting and financial systems, including systems development or enhancement activities.
• Experience operating within both project-based and business-as-usual environments.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with data and financial reporting tools.
• Comfortable communicating with both finance and non-finance stakeholders across different levels of the organisation.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise competing demands and work effectively to deadlines.
• A proactive, collaborative and self-motivated individual who enjoys driving improvements and solving complex challenges.
• Strong attention to detail with a commitment to delivering accurate, high-quality work.
• Experience within professional services, engineering or construction environments would be advantageous.
• Exposure to Unit4 and/or Deltek Vantagepoint would be beneficial but is not essential.

Why Join Buro Happold?

At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.

What we Offer You

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.