Business Analyst

Accenture Portugal; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Portugal is seeking a Finance Implementation Projects professional to manage accounting and banking project activities in Lisbon. The role focuses on defining data flows, functional specifications, and coordinating between operating systems and finance systems.

The candidate will work across project phases, ensure milestones and budgets, and provide testing and aftercare support for reporting users, with English and Portuguese language skills required.

Qualifications

• Experience with project management frameworks.
• Knowledge of general or banking accounting.
• Knowledge of banking products.
• Knowledge of financial information systems.
• Proficiency in MS Excel (intermediate).
• English and Portuguese language skills (B1/B2).

Responsibilities

• 1st - Project Management: Work with FIP project managers across phases, follow central FIP PM methodology, meet milestones and budget, contribute to workaround solutions, provide regular status updates, participate in project committees.
• 2nd - Functional & Project implementation: Define operational and accounting schemes and controls, map data flows and document functional specs for other teams, coordinate tasks to ensure timely delivery, set up chart of accounts if needed, contribute to testing strategy, conduct accounting and reporting tests, provide aftercare support for reporting users.

Skills

Project management frameworks

General accounting

Banking accounting

Banking products

Financial Information Systems

MS Excel

English

Portuguese

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

What are we looking for:

Accounting & Banking Previous Experience - (Minimum 3 Years)

What would you do:

• Your mission consists to ensure the usual projects activity within local Finance Implementation Projects FIP department, within a worldwide Financial Institution Bank.
• Handles the functional solutions of financial interfaces between the operating systems of business and the finance systems, collaborating with the main reporting streams (financial accounting, management accounting, liquidity, and credit risk).

Roles and Responsibilities:

1st - Project Management

• Work in daily cooperation with the FIP project managers in the diAerent phases of project;
• Respect the methodology of project management shared by the central FIP;
• Respect the projects milestones and the related budget;
• Contribute to the definition of a workaround solution with the project team face to any issue impacting the critical path of the project and its budget;
• Produce regular project status to share with FIP project manager and FIP team leader;
• Participate to project committees by sharing actions/decisions status under FIP responsibility, taking or coordinating actions linked to the central FIP.

2nd - Functional & Project implementation

• Define the operational and accounting schemes and the framework of controls based on the first global need expressed by FIP project manager in context of a pre study.
• Define the structure of data flows with the necessary information to feed finance systems - Document the functional specifications of the solution to be set up by other teams such as operating systems IT, Financial IT systems, FIP Engineering for parametrization in the accounting interpreter;
• Coordinate the tasks and actions from the different stakeholders by ensuring the time to market of the delivery;
• Set up evolution of chart of accounts if necessary for the solution adopted; - Contribute to the testing strategy to ensure the quality of the implementation of the project;
• Carry out all accounting and reporting test phases under direct responsibility of FIP;
• Ensure an aftercare support for reporting users.

Location: Lisbon - Hybrid.

Request to the role:

• Experience of project management frameworks.
• Knowledge of general accounting and or banking accounting.
• Knowledge of banking products.
• Knowledge of financial Information Systems.
• MS Excel - intermedium.
• Language English + Portuguese (B1/B2).