Job Description

Data & Automation Specialist

Salary: £28,512.00 per annum

Working Hours: Permanent, Full Time, 40 hours per week

Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire

Work Pattern: Hybrid / Flexible

Arrangement: We support flexible working! This role offers a hybrid model with options for either 2 days per week remote or a fully remote setup with just one office visit per month.

G4S Regional Management is seeking an experienced Data & Automation Specialist to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis.

Responsible for providing comprehensive financial and system support by managing and maintaining financial systems and data, ensuring data accuracy, compliance, and efficient operations through troubleshooting and system improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Automation & Scripting: Sole responsibility and lead the design, development, and optimisation of automation solutions using Google Apps Script (JavaScript), Google Forms, and Google Sheets to streamline FSSC workflows.
• System & Administration: Act as co-system administrator for a multi-platform environment, including SAP S4HANA, Blackline, iTop, and Great Plains, ensuring seamless data flow between systems.
• Incident Engineering: Proactively troubleshoot and perform root-cause analysis on script failures or data discrepancies, ensuring minimal downtime for critical financial month-end processes.
• MI & Business Intelligence: Extract, manipulate, and visualise complex datasets to provide the business with high-quality MI reports and dashboards (using Looker and advanced Sheets/Excel).
• Process Engineering: Identify systemic inefficiencies and 'challenge the status quo' by proposing and implementing automated alternatives to manual data entry and reconciliation.
• Documentation & Governance: Maintain high-standard technical documentation and schematics for all scripts and system integrations, ensuring business continuity and compliance with financial controls.
• Project Delivery: Lead smaller-scale automation projects from requirement gathering to deployment, while supporting the R2R Lead on large-scale ERP migrations or system upgrades.
• Oversight: Oversight of the offshore external provider, in their use of the products and processes and giving them guidance.

The Ideal Candidate

We are searching for someone with an 'Automation Mindset' a person who naturally seeks a better way and has the technical tenacity to build it. You'll need analytical rigour to ensure 100% data accuracy and the communication skills to translate 'script-speak' into plain English for our finance stakeholders. You will hold the following skills:

Essential Requirements:

• Automation: Google Apps Script (Advanced JavaScript)
• ERP Systems: SAP S4HANA
• Data & MI: Advanced Data Manipulation
• Finance: Financial understanding of R2R processes
• Workflow: Blackline (Admin) and iTop (Service Management)
• Project Manager skills: Ability to work on their own and take initiative.
• Curious mind: Ability to think creatively and troubleshoot under pressure.

Desirable Requirements:

• Automation: API Integrations (REST/JSON)
• ERP Systems: ERP systems such as Great Plains, SAP BPC, (EPM, Blackline)
• Data & MI: Google Looker / Data Studio
• Knowledge: SOX or audit requirements knowledge
• Workflow: Agile / Lean (Project Management Methodology)

At G4S Regional Management, our goal is to create spaces where people can do their best work. By delivering the essential finance shared services to support our UK and Ireland operation, our teams ensure every site is the best it can be. Join us and make a real impact every day.

Benefits

While working for G4S, you are entitled to a number of benefits and offers from G4S partners and other organisations, from employee assistance provided through SPARK, to RAC cover and so much more, including the below;

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (prorated for part-time workers).
• Opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave per annum.
• Progression, training and development catered to you.
• Reward and recognition schemes including long service awards.
• Company pension scheme with employer contributions.
• G4S Life Assurance Scheme.
• Subsidised healthcare plans.
• Charity work- Match-IT and Payroll Giving.
• Confidential Counselling Services.
• 24/7 support specialising in health and medical.
• Discounts on high street shops and brands including several leading high street brands, retailers and travel suppliers.

We believe that great work comes from diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone, regardless of background, identity, experience, or abilities, feels valued, respected, and supported. If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.

G4S is the International business of Allied Universal, the world's leading security and facility services provider and trusted partner to more than 400 of the Fortune 500. Allied Universal delivers unparalleled customer relationships, innovative solutions, cutting-edge smart technologies and tailored services that enable clients to focus on their core businesses. With operations in over 100 countries and territories, Allied Universal is the third largest private employer in North America and seventh in the world. Annual revenue is approximately $23 billion. There is no greater purpose and responsibility than serving and helping to safeguard customers, communities and people. For more information, visit g4s.com. In the UK, the company has an extensive network of offices and more than 31,000 employees.

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