Senior Data Analyst, Finance Ops — AI & Automation

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Watford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com in Watford, UK is seeking a Senior Data Analyst within Global Finance Operations to drive data integrity, process efficiency, and strategic visibility across the Record to Report (R2R) team. You will establish data pipelines and governed datasets to enhance month-end performance and enable AI automation.

You will work with the Governance Lead and Continuous Improvement Managers to foster a data-literate culture, deliver clean data, and translate insights into strategic

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in data analysis, transformation, and insight generation within complex finance or e-commerce environments.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end finance processes, accounting principles, and sensitive financial data governance.
• High technical proficiency in Workday Finance (or similar ERPs) and financial reporting tools for complex data extraction and querying.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis of financial data flows between primary ERP systems (e.g., Workday) and upstream/downstream tools to reduce manual adjustments.
• Drive the optimization of month-end close (MEC) processes, leveraging our data ecosystem to enhance accuracy and real-time visibility.
• Collaborate with the Governance Lead and Master Data Management team to establish rigorous data quality standards and transparent data dictionaries.
• Acquire, manage, and maintain robust data pipelines from primary and secondary systems to support broader Global Finance Operations.
• Build and maintain automated reporting frameworks for R2R KPIs and OKRs to enable tower-level performance and initiative tracking.
• Identify and articulate process bottlenecks and improvement opportunities to leadership, using data-driven evidence to aim high and raise the bar.
• Evaluate AI, automation, and process mining use cases alongside Tech and Data & Analytics teams to drive efficiency and innovation.
• Act as a mentor and subject matter expert by helping one another succeed and guiding colleagues on analytical tools, methods, and best practices.
• Foster a culture of data literacy by delivering engaging training and awareness sessions focused on analytics and AI readiness.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

BigQuery

KPI dashboards

Data governance

Finance systems knowledge

Communication

Tools

Workday Finance

OneStream

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com in Watford, UK is seeking a Senior Data Analyst within Global Finance Operations to drive data integrity, process efficiency, and strategic visibility across the Record to Report (R2R) team. You will establish data pipelines and governed datasets to enhance month-end performance and enable AI automation.

You will work with the Governance Lead and Continuous Improvement Managers to foster a data-literate culture, deliver clean data, and translate insights into strategic