Finance Automation Analyst

📢 We're hiring: Finance Automation Analyst| Manchester We're recruiting a Finance Automation Analyst on behalf of a leading global travel technology company to automate reporting, strengthen data quality and improve financial workflows. 📍 Manchester — hybrid, 2 days on site per week 📅 6-month initial contract ⏰ 37.5 hours per week 💷 £53 per hour Umbrella or £40 per hour PAYE, plus £5.82 holiday pay What you'll be doing:

• Automating insurance bordereau workflows, from source-report ingestion and data cleaning to reconciliation and output preparation.
• Building validation checks for duplicate records, missing data, formatting errors and financial mismatches.
• Improving an insurance complaints email bot, including classification, information extraction, routing and human-review controls.
• Automating recurring reporting, management information and data transformations.
• Converting manual spreadsheet processes into maintainable scripts, Google Apps Script tools or AI-agent workflows.
• Documenting logic, assumptions and fallback procedures so non-technical colleagues can maintain the outputs. What we're looking for:
• Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills, including formulas, pivot tables and workflows across multiple files and tabs.
• Practical Python or JavaScript coding skills, with experience working with CSV, Excel, JSON and APIs.
• Google Apps Script experience, including automation, triggers and custom functions.
• Working SQL knowledge and experience querying cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake.
• Familiarity with Git/GitLab for version control and collaborative delivery.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code to build, test and document automations.
• Excellent attention to detail, particularly around reconciliation and data quality. Interested? Send me your CV or message me to find out more.