Description:
Automation Analyst, you will help modernize how work gets done across Element’s finance shared services environment.
You will identify opportunities to simplify and standardize workflows, develop automation and AI-enabled solutions, and turn data into insights that strengthen efficiency, controls, and business performance. From discovery through implementation, you will partner with finance and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver measurable improvements and support adoption of new ways of working.
This is an opportunity to combine hands-on technical delivery with business problem-solving, stakeholder partnership, and continuous improvement.
What You Will Own
- Identify and prioritize finance process improvements by analysing workflows, challenges, and opportunities to simplify, standardize, digitize, and automate work.
- Lead the delivery of intelligent automation, AI, reporting, and workflow solutions, from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
- Build and enhance solutions using Alteryx, Power BI, Power Automate, SQL, AI-enabled tools, and other relevant platforms to reduce manual work and improve data quality and consistency.
- Develop dashboards, key performance indicators, exception reporting, and analysis that translate financial and operational data into actionable business insights.
- Measure the impact of initiatives, including efficiency improvements, stronger controls, process quality, and other business outcomes.
- Engage stakeholders across finance and the broader business, communicate progress and risks, coordinate decisions, and maintain momentum across projects.
- Document requirements, processes, standard operating procedures, and user guidance; support change management, adoption, and ongoing solution refinement.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and share knowledge to help finance teams adopt effective, responsible approaches to automation and AI.
You Should Consider This Role If
You bring finance process knowledge, hands-on automation and analytics skills, and the ability to move improvement initiatives from idea to implementation.
- You have a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, data analytics, information systems, business, or a related field.
- You have 4-6 years of experience in business process engineering, finance transformation, top-tier management consulting, or a data, automation, or business intelligence analyst role supporting finance or related functions.
- You have experience in finance or financial services and understand finance processes, operational workflows, and business drivers.
- You have demonstrated experience simplifying, standardizing, digitizing, and automating processes to improve efficiency, controls, quality, and stakeholder experience.
- You have hands-on Alteryx experience, which is required, as well as hands-on experience with automation, reporting, and analytics tools such as Power BI, Power Automate, and SQL.
- You have strong knowledge of databases and querying tools, including SQL, Snowflake, and similar platforms, and experience with data extraction, transformation, analysis, and visualization.
- You have practical exposure to AI tools and AI-enabled capabilities in business, analytics, or process improvement.
- You can gather requirements, translate business needs into technology-enabled solutions, and support end-to-end delivery, including testing, implementation, and post-implementation support.
- You bring strong analytical, root cause analysis, problem-solving, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- You can coordinate multiple priorities independently and collaborate effectively with finance, operations, technology, and senior stakeholders.