Systems Account - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Crown Commercial Service

Crown Commercial Service

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £43,575 - £48,438

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:

Senior Executive Officer

Band 2
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Finance
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Compressed hours
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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LiverpoolAbout the job

Job summary:

_ Would you like to be a Systems Accountant? Do you enjoy strategic and tactical decision making? Do you like to influence, negotiate and work collaboratively to promote innovation?__ _

Job Summary
As a Systems Accountant, you are expected to provide ongoing upgrades, systems maintenance and process improvement work.

This role will work closely with Finance, IT and other business functions to develop robust financial processes with a particular emphasis on developing, implementing and overseeing a transition to self-service reporting and dashboards.

Finance, Planning and Performance Directorate Overview
As a directorate, FPP are responsible for the planning, reporting and financial wellbeing of CCS

This includes:
- budgets and financial reporting
- strategy and business planning
- supplier and project assurance
- performance reporting
- risk management

The Finance team develop and manage all financial reporting. We work closely with different departments to develop budgets, projections and business plans related to money and finances.

The Planning Performance and Risk team develops our business plan, tracks its implementation, measures business success and holds the business to account.

The team is responsible for increasing the management capability of corporate risk through review and assurance.

Team Summary

This fantastic opportunity will enable you to be at the forefront of a small and innovative team looking to provide the top value from our internal ERP provided by Workday and Planning.

Supporting the wider Finance team and the rest of the CCS business, maintaining and developing the systems, writing reports and dashboards.

The Finance team of c30 FTE covers three main areas: Operational Finance, Finance Business Partnering (FBP) and Commercial Finance.

This role sits in the Operational Finance team but has to be able to work closely within the Finance team and the wider Finance Planning and Performance Directorate.

Job description:

Key Responsibilities:

Providing expert advice regarding systems and technology to internal stakeholders
Heading financial systems' user support, including developing and designing systems' training materials and initiatives to upskill users
Taking charge for the overall processes underpinning the maintenance of user accounts and permissions, ensuring requests are correctly authorised and adhering to GDPR guidance as issued by Information Assurance specialists in Government Security
Leading the process of system improvement identification and the creation of solutions, representing finance systems across the organisation
Reviewing problem statements and design solutions. Working with stakeholders to implement solutions, including design and delivery of training packages, reports and dashboards
Overseeing all aspects of financial systems implementation and improvement, such as requirement setting with external suppliers
The post holder will be required to follow relevant government functional standards and other related requirements and guidance

Person specification:

Strong technical finance and accounting skills
Experience of understanding, handling and assessing complex financial processes
Experience of working effectively with multiple stakeholders with varying levels of financial knowledge
Demonstrates a clear comprehension of Project techniques and managing change
Experience of building reports and dashboards to meet business requirements

Desirable Criteria:

Experience of Workday and Adaptive Planning

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big Picture
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Excel Test

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £43,575, Crown Commercial Service contributes £11,808 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:

Competitive salary
Generous pension scheme
A discretionary noncontractual performance related bonus
Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holiday