Digital and Tech Consultant - Financial Accounting Advisory Services FAAS | Lisboa - Porto

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FAAS Digital designs, builds and implements digital solutions for the finance and accounting functions of our clients. Our clients look to us to identify and diagnose core problems and implement financial technology solutions. This work often requires collecting, combining, transforming, analysing, and reporting data to reveal insights that support our clients’ decision making or creating automation solutions for their finance and accounting processes.

The opportunity
Our Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) Digital Team is growing, and as a consultant, you’ll play a key role in that growth. Working across all industries and interacting with our clients, you’ll develop your career by communicating and providing expertise around data analytics and other digital solutions to solve our client’s accounting, finance, governance, and regulatory concerns. You’ll be able to deliver exceptional client experience using technology to help our clients perform more valuable and meaningful work.  

Your key responsibilities
- The nature of this role means that you will be recognized as a primary day-to-day contact for our clients. That means you’ll need to understand how to translate our client’s various business needs into data centric applications and solutions
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with FAAS clients
- Gather data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases
- Design and develop data structures, ETL scripts or programs for data management and analytics
- Develop and automate processes to streamline data collection, cleaning, and analysis
- Manage project tasks and report on work status to several stakeholders
- Stay informed of the current issues, profession, and business/economic developments relevant to the client’s industry
- Continually learn new technologies, share knowledge with team members and enhance service delivery 

Skills and attributes for success
- Experience with finance function process assessments, design, and improvement (e.g., record to report, procure to pay, order to cash, budgeting and planning, cash management, etc.)
- Ability to understand and document several system architectures and dataflows
- Experience with finance enabling tools and technology (e.g., functional understanding of ERP systems, finance modules, and financial reporting technologies)
- Proficient or strong comprehension of at least one programming language such as Python, JavaScript, C#, etc.
- Proficient or strong comprehension of data transformation and/or data integration technologies such as Microsoft SQL and/or Alteryx
- Proven experience within the analytics domain gathering business and technical requirements, solution design, build, testing, and solution deployment
- Strong technical writing skills and data analytics knowledge
- Experience with business intelligence and data visualization and reporting platforms such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, etc.
- Ability to clearly communicate verbally and in writing
- The capability and desire to be part of a high performing team
- Passionate about delivering innovation to help solve client business problem

To qualify for the role, you must have
- A bachelor's or master’s degree preferably in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Economics.

- At least 1 year of relevant experience.

- English fluency (minimum B2).

What we look for
Professionals with a unique creative vision and with confidence and desire to meet the objectives, with autonomy to take the initiative and look for opportunities to improve our relationships and current processes. If you're ready to tackle some of our clients' most complex problems, this is your chance.

What we offer
We offer a competitive remuneration package and includes support for flexible working and career development. Plus, we offer support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around the world and opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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