IT Senior Analyst Finance Support - Booker Group : Job Details

About the role

The role of IT Senior Analyst (Finance Support) is a newly established position within the Booker IT team. In this role, the individual is responsible for supporting change, compliance programmes, and systems delivery across the Finance teams. 

Role Responsibility

This position involves supporting Finance colleagues daily, overseeing and resolving problem tickets, and providing essential knowledge and expertise to aid informed decision-making.

Additionally, the role will be responsible for overseeing SAP maintenance (FI/CO), managing user and cost centre configurations, and handling Segregation of Duties (SoD). It includes safeguarding system integrity, adhering to ICFR controls, and performing routine and ad hoc tasks to aid the Finance teams. The role requires exceptional precision and the capability to oversee essential functions, ensuring that the financial systems are secure and operate effectively. 

The role requires an individual who can manage priorities effectively between support and project work, ensuring adherence to existing SLAs and meeting project deliverables, including timelines, budgets, and stakeholder management. The role may require some \'Out of Hours\' work on an ad-hoc basis.

You will need

Experience relevant for this job:

• Experience in managing change from conception and design to testing, delivery and ultimately support.
• Project delivery experience developed through Finance focussed initiatives.
• Commercially aware and keen to understand the wholesale business and how different functions interact.
• Good people management, with proven ability to effectively work with other internal and external teams.
• Service management skills with experience of successful support provision and project leading.
• Consistent delivery of results.

Skills relevant for this job

• Proven Classic General Ledger data interrogation skills.
• Excellence in building positive relationships with business stakeholders.
• Proven ability to articulate complex business requirements by means of a functional systems specification.
• Proven SAP FI/CO configuration and/or testing skills (ideally gained during an SAP ECC implementation and/or integration project).
• Proficiency in developing and managing user access controls to ensure the security and efficiency of systems.
• Passion and understanding of advancing IT governance, security, and operational excellence.
• Good understanding of Profit Centre / Cost Centre reporting structures (inc experience of Report Painter)
• Fully or Part qualified in a professional accounting qualification.
• Deliver continuous improvements.
• Desire to learn / add value / drive progress.

Whats in it for you

At Booker, along with being a great place to work and giving you an opportunity to get on in your career, we also offer the following fantastic package of benefits:

• A Booker colleague card with 10% off purchases at Booker and double discount events up to three times a year.
• After 3 months service, a Tesco colleague discount card with 10% increasing to 15% off most purchases at Tesco for a 4 day period after every four-weekly pay day, ie. thirteen times a year. In addition to 10% off at Tesco Cafe and 20% off all F&F purchases.
• 10% off pay monthly & SIM only deals with Tesco Mobile for yourself, along with further great deals through-out the year.
• Up to 30% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco bank. Terms and conditions apply.
• Free eye test when you spend £50 or more. You can also save 30% when you spend £50 or more on glasses, prescription sunglasses and contact lenses.
• 50% off health checks at Tesco Pharmacy.
• Exclusive access to discounted RAC breakdown cover rates
• An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases including a cycle to work scheme.
• After 3 months service, you can join our annual Save As You Earn share scheme which allows you to buy Tesco shares in the future at a discount.
• Retirement savings plan (pension) - save up to 5% and Booker will match your contribution.
• Life Assurance - You are covered for death in service life cover of up to three times annual pay
• Health and Wellbeing support and resources including our 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A great holiday package

About The Company

Be part of something special. Join our team at Booker.

Booker is the UK’s leading food & drink wholesaler. We are privileged to serve independent retailers, caterers and small businesses, from locations across the country.

Booker Group comprises of Booker Wholesale, Makro, Booker Direct, Classic Drinks, Ritter Courivaud and Chef Direct. Our customers include Premier, Family Shopper, Budgens and Londis retailers and we have one shared aim - improving choice, price and service for all our customers.

Our business is incredibly diverse, so it takes a wide range of skills to deliver the exceptional service our customers require.

Wherever you join us, you’ll be part of an organisation that will help your career to keep moving forward.

*Booker Group is part of Tesco plc, however is operated separately from the core Tesco business and as such the benefits offered will be different from those offered at Tesco*