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    Financial Systems Manager - London, United Kingdom - Planet Technology

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    The Planet Group have recently been engaged by global Fintech organisation to secure an interim Head of Finance on an initial contract basis. (Inside IR35) PAYE. This role will be based out of London offering Hybrid working.

    Job Summary:

    We are actively seeking an exceptional individual to lead our Finance Systems team sitting within our Finance Transformation division. Reporting to the Finance Transformation Director the successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the Finance systems are operating effectively, providing value to stakeholders, whilst maintaining controls.

    This individual will be responsible for managing a team of four to implement and maintain IT General Controls and manage system releases, complete security audits and improve finance business processes in our systems.

    This will be a hands-on-role with a key focus on ensuring our systems are efficient and effective.

    There will be lots of opportunities to learn and for this remit to grow as our system landscape evolves and Finance Transformation projects are delivered. This role would be ideal for someone that has worked in a finance department with the ability to understand systems that solve business problems.

    Day to Day Responsibilities:

    • Manage third party finance systems, including Workday Financials, Workday Adaptive, Coupa, Dell Boomi, Longview and Navan.
    • For the systems above, you will be managing the delivery of security audits, access management, release management, and key rotation.
    • Partner with the Finance team to improve existing systems and processes.
    • Be the ambassador of change, able to challenge existing practices with the aim to establish new processes based on the Finance priorities and Transformation objectives.
    • Work alongside the Finance Transformation team during new system implementations to ensure the support model post-go live is fit for purpose.
    • Creating detailed project plans, RAID logs, RACIs and reporting on progress to governance forums.
    • Implement, document and own the IT General Controls across the finance systems to ensure a robust control environment across our critical business system.
    • Liaise with the auditors to ensure effective and timely delivery of the audit evidence/support during year-end audits.
    • Manage a team of four system specialists.

    What will you bring to the role?

    • Strong knowledge of Finance systems. Having led or been part of an implementation of Workday Financials and managed the system once live is a must.
    • Experience with controllership, purchase-to-pay, budgeting and forecasting, HR Information Systems, middleware, tax and travel systems is a must.
    • Experience with Workday Adaptive, Workday HCM, Coupa, Dell Boomi, Longview and Navan is preferred.
    • Experience with reviewing system configuration before moving changes to production.
    • Able to manage and prioritise the work of a team across multiple systems.
    • Own the roadmap of change and implementation for the team while periodic and BAU tasks continue.
    • Owning the incident management across all Finance systems, be the first point of contact.
    • Experienced in finance transformation projects/ programmes where you are implementing systems and improving processes through process re-engineering.
    • Strong understanding of ITGCs, including how to set these up in the systems listed previously and provide evidence of their effectiveness.
    • Understanding of best practice finance processes.
    • Strong experience in educating stakeholders regarding finance related processes and how they translate to wider business impacts.
    • Good understanding of how Accounting processes should work to ensure they are efficient and controlled.
    • Able to act as a project manager to develop project plans, RAID logs, RACIs and then execute a project across functions.
    • Good understanding of systems and integration approaches.
    • Excellent at communicating with senior stakeholders and team members to identify issues and propose solutions.
    • Able to identify problems, define the root cause, determine the solution and propose the solution.
    • Able to translate technical expertise into solutions and process guidance to implement improvements or address user issues.
    • Able to map processes, outlining risks and controls.
    • Experienced in data analysis, data manipulation and reporting.
    • Experience in managing system budgets and exercising cost containment/ cost reduction

    Please apply in the first instance or contact Ryan Deeble for more details.

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