Data & Automation Specialist - CP&O

Job description

**The Opportunity:** Providing Financial Planning and Controlling expertise to the organization by compiling, analyzing metrics, finding trends, tackling challenges, communicating information to relevant stakeholders, and recommending actions to improve financial performance. **How youll make an impact:** - Build and manage ETL workflows using \\*Alteryx\\* to prepare, clean, and reconcile financial data from SAP, Excel, and other sources. - Create dashboards and reports in \\*Power BI\\* to monitor KPIs, reconciliation status, and financial performance metrics. - Automate manual finance tasks using \\*Power Automate and Power Apps\\* (e.g., reconciliations, approvals, variance tracking). - Use \\*SQL\\* to query, validate, and reconcile financial data sets, ensuring consistency across source and target systems. - Leverage \\*Celonis\\* for process mining and identifying deviations, inefficiencies, and reconciliation breaks in finance workflows. - Perform reconciliations between systems (e.g., \\*SAP\\* vs BI, consolidation tools vs source systems) and flag exceptions. - Conduct data quality checks and establish controls to ensure completeness and accuracy of reported data. - Work closely with the controlling team to support financial planning, closing, and reporting activities. - Assist in implementing global data governance practices and ensuring standardization across finance data elements. - Translate controlling requirements into data transformation logic, reports, and automation solutions. - Ensure alignment of reconciled data with IFRS and internal financial reporting policies. - Support master data integrity and updates in coordination with global data owners. - Drive or support global data governance and financial transformation projects under CP&O. - Maintain process documentation, data dictionaries, and reconciliation logs. - Ensure audit-readiness of all automated workflows and reconciliation processes. - Coordinate with IT, finance, and process owners to align data definitions, reporting structures, and control mechanisms. - Monitor KPIs on data quality, timeliness, and reconciliation accuracy. - Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines. - Living Hitachi Energys core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business. **Your background:** - Bachelors or masters degree in finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. - 35 years of experience in data analytics, financial controlling, or process automation roles. - Strong hands-on expertise in Alteryx, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, SQL. - Experience using Celonis or other process mining tools is preferred. - Familiarity with SAP FI/CO and financial consolidation/reporting tools is a plus. - Proven experience with reconciliations, financial data validation, and internal controls. - Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills . - High attention to detail and data accuracy. - Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset - Ability to work with cross-functional teams and global stakeholders. - Excellent communication and documentation skills. - Structured, self-driven, and proactive approach to identifying and solving data issues. - Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required.