Graduate Finance Systems Analyst Permanent

Job Description

Bringing Ingenuity to Life

We’re an innovation and transformation consultancy that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive-human future in a technology-driven world. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking with breakthrough-technologies to progress further, faster.

With a global network of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 clients, we’ll offer you unrivalled opportunities for growth and the freedom to excel. Combining strategies, technologies and innovation, we turn complexity to opportunity and deliver enduring results, enabling you to build a lasting career.

Isn’t it time you joined us?

We’re looking for you to help us manage and look after our wide range of applications that provide support to our consulting and functional teams across the world.

We run and maintain 60+ applications that provide these services, with two teams in the UK looking after them – one team supports our Oracle based applications, the other takes care of the rest of the portfolio.

This role is for someone to join our Oracle team – focussing on the areas which support our financial activities by looking after PeopleSoft Financials v9.2, Hyperion Planning Suite and Hyperion Financial Management which allow people across the firm to store project information, bill customers, record their time, buy things, budget and plan for next year, work out the bonus for last year and provide our statutory reporting (amongst many other things!).

If you’re looking to build a career in IT and have a keen interest in numbers and the financial side of a business, this is a great role for you!

Job Requirements

What we’re looking for:

• Recent graduate in IT or Accounting related subject
• Ideal candidate will have some application support experience
• Understanding of financial accounting principles to give a good financial grounding would be advantageous
• Experience in the IT Support arena desirable
• Knowledge of and comfort with the software project lifecycle
• Capacity to handle and manage change
• Capacity to work on multiple issues whilst under time pressures
• Sound problem-solving skills to identify the root cause of issues
• Ability to apply technical skills to support the design and development of solutions to issues
• Willingness to learn and actively maintain knowledge of new and upcoming technologies.

About PA Consulting Group

• Private medical insurance
• Interest free season ticket loan
• 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Company pension scheme
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Life and Income protection insurance
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn, childcare benefits)
• Voluntary benefits (Dental, critical illness, spouse/partner life assurance)

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.

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