
Spend & Finance Operations Analyst
Fenergo
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dublin • 🇮🇪 Ireland
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ERPTableau
About the role
- Build reporting and dashboards that improve visibility of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll Operations performance
- Analyse operational data to identify trends, bottlenecks, exceptions, and improvement opportunities
- Provide clear insights to Finance Operations that support better execution and decision-making
- Provide AP and AR insights that support the Financial Controller’s working capital oversight, while not owning working capital management
- Maintain accurate and consistent data structures across Finance Operations to support high-quality reporting.
- Maintain consolidated spend reporting and deliver clear, structured dashboards for stakeholders
- Analyse spend drivers, vendor utilisation, category trends, and cost patterns
- Provide insights that enhance financial forecasting and support investment and budgeting decisions
- Support the development of spend governance frameworks and reporting standards.
- Prepare renewal insight packs including usage analysis, pricing comparisons, market benchmarks, commercial scenarios, and financial implications
- Provide structured renewal analysis to support Strategic Procurement during negotiation planning.
- Track and validate savings initiatives across operational and vendor spend
- Maintain clear reporting on planned, in-progress, and realised savings
- Ensure savings reporting aligns with FP&A budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Own T&E reporting and provide insight into spend patterns, trends, and compliance behaviour
- Review monthly T&E exceptions and identify underlying root causes
- Ensure T&E systems and reporting structures reflect policy requirements.
- Act as business reporting owner for Navan (T&E system) and ensure data accuracy, workflow alignment, and compliance tracking
- Provide reporting and analytics for P-Card usage and related financial controls
- Partner with Systems & Tooling to improve reporting automation and integration across Coupa, CLM, and other Finance systems
- Maintain consistent reporting standards and data definitions across Finance and Spend Operations.
- Maintain visibility into contract metadata, renewal cycles, and workflow performance
- Provide contract-related reporting that supports Legal, Procurement, and Finance
- Ensure vendor and contract data is accurate, structured, and usable for operational and financial reporting
- Collaborate with Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Order-to-Cash teams to understand operational needs and deliver insight
- Partner with Strategic Procurement to enable negotiation readiness and vendor decision support
- Work with FP&A to ensure operational and spend insights are reflected accurately in forecasts and budgets
- Coordinate with Legal and HR on contract workflows, policy compliance, and reporting requirements.
Requirements
- Experience in Finance Operations, FP&A, Business Analysis, or similar analytical roles
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets
- Strong PowerPoint skills, presenting well-articulated materials to senior stakeholders
- Proficiency in Excel and data modelling
- Experience working with finance systems such as Coupa, Navan, CLM platforms, or ERP systems
- Ability to design structured reporting frameworks and improve data visibility
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present insights clearly
- Experience supporting AP/AR/Payroll functions
- Exposure to procurement or vendor analytics
- Experience building dashboards or automated reports (Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
- Experience in a SaaS or technology-led organisation
- Analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to structure data and build reporting from the ground up
- Clear and concise communicator with strong stakeholder management skills
- High attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and data quality
- Able to introduce structure, reporting cadence, and insight where needed
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
data analysisfinancial forecastingreporting frameworksdata modellingdashboard buildingvendor analyticsspend governancesavings trackingcompliance trackingroot cause analysis
Soft skills
analytical skillscommunication skillsproblem-solving skillsstakeholder managementattention to detailstructured thinkingpresentation skillscollaborationinsight generationdata quality focus