Finance Manager Remote/Home-based - London, United Kingdom - Fastmarkets

Description

We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.

Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world.

We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

Following separation from a FTSE 250 PLC, the Fastmarkets finance team have to establish some new finance functionality and this role is critical in being part of a team that delivers the functionality with associated processes, and establishes them as business as usual.

The role will require a highly dynamic individual, who can implement, document, execute processes for finance systems and work alongside our IT function and third-party partners to deliver change.

Finance application operations accountabilities
Responsible for the 2nd line support of all users by triage, resolving user/system issues. Responsible for the maintaining user access and roles, including on/off-boarding, and finance organisational changes.
Responsible for managing all data imports, data cleansing and data maintenance efforts when required.

Support the bi-annual system upgrades, train users on new features, develop workflows when required, build new save searches/reports and document key processes.

Responsible for the creation and maintenance of custom records and fields when required.
Work closely with other workstream leads to ensuring alignment and integrity of data across core business systems.
Lead netsuite consultant for continuous improvement projects

Support the Finance IT lead on the technical design requirements gathering and feeding into the Technical Design Authority and NetSuite Design Solution.

Lead the Build phase of Netsuite enhancements, working alongside our NetSuite SI and the Finance team:
Working with the Finance SLT to develop dashboards, saves search and custom reports where required.
Working with the finance SMEs, to ensure all reporting requirements are met during the build.
Support the Finance Training strategy
Provide continuous training and education throughout the implementation.
Develop and provide remote/classroom UAT training ahead of testing.
Create digestible training material to support Fastmarkets end users at go-live.
Lead the Testing phase of the implementations
Lead the creation of the use cases, test scripts by working with the Fastmarkets Finance SMEs and SI.

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world's leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve.

NetSuite specialist who has +3 years experience in building, and configuring and supporting the application
~ Experience in implementing, developing or managing other non-ERP finance applications
~5+ years experience in in accounting or finance operations roles
~ Experience of waterfall & Agile software development life cycles (SDLC)

Able to solve problems with creative and pragmatic ideas and uses sound judgements based on risk assessment.
Attention to detail, ability to rapidly understand end to end business operation and inherent risks
We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance

~ We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.