General Ledger Data Delivery Analyst - Finance Modernisation (BJ-13773)

Do you want to be a key member of the team shaping the future of Next Finance?

NEXT is a leading retailer committed to excellence and innovation. As part of our strategic initiatives, we are undergoing a significant finance transformation, transitioning to Oracle Fusion. We are seeking a highly skilled part or qualified accountant experienced in data analysis to support the delivery of data cleansing and data migration solutions as part of the finance transformation programme.

About the role

We are looking for a highly skilled General Ledger Data Delivery Analyst to join our team, specialising in preparing and cleansing large volumes of data for migration into Oracle Fusion. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and readiness of data to support our finance transformation initiative. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements, perform data cleansing activities, and manage data delivery processes to meet project timelines and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Data Assessment: Analyse existing data sources and assess data quality, identifying areas for improvement and adopt data cleansing strategies including deduplication.
• Data Mapping: Map the fields and data structures from the source system to the destination system, ensuring data integrity and maintain referential integrity with related records if applicable.
• Develop and implement data cleansing processes and methodologies to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness, considering any enrichment of data required.
• Design the execution of data transformation logic and rules to standardise and normalise data for migration into Oracle Fusion, including structured formats and within data governance policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with technical teams to extract, transform, and load data from source systems into staging areas for cleansing and transformation.
• Develop and maintain data cleansing scripts, queries, and procedures to automate tasks and streamline data delivery processes.
• Perform data validation and reconciliation activities to ensure the accuracy and completeness of migrated data in Oracle Fusion, resolving any differences.
• Testing and Validation: Conduct thorough testing of the migrated vendor data to verify functionality, data integrity, and performance in the destination system. Involve key stakeholders and subject matter experts in validation efforts to ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Document data cleansing procedures, methodologies, and best practices for knowledge sharing, reference purposes and audit and compliance.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on data cleansing techniques, tools, and processes, providing support and guidance to junior team members and stakeholders.

You will also be working with several business readiness teams:

• Existing commercial and operational finance teams
• Change management and adoption team ensuring we have the appropriate training for all users
• Reporting team to ensure we have the data for financial reporting and reconciliation purposes

About you

• Understanding of general ledger, trial balance and chart of accounts
• Proficient in data mapping, transformation and validation processes.
• Experience with a large ERP system is desirable, preferably Oracle Fusion
• Strong understanding of data cleansing best practices and methodologies.
• Ability to self manage, methodical with strong organisational skills ensuring multiple tasks can run in parallel
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and technical teams
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, working with large volumes of data
• Self-motivated as iterations of the process will be required
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and escalate issues in an appropriate and timely manner
• Excel, Powerpoint and/or Google Presentation skills

You know Next, but did you know we're a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We're the UK's 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we're the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it's now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we've gone global!