Financial Systems Specialist - Smethwick, United Kingdom - DPD Group UK

DPD Group UK

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Smethwick, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Company Description

Contract: Fixed Term Contract 9 months / 37.5 hours per week
Location: DPD Smethwick B66 1BY
Days of Work: Monday
Friday
Hours of work: 9am 5pm

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK's most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service.

You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of over £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible.

When joining DPD you are not just starting a job, you are vital to our journey to be the most customer centric, inclusive, sustainable and leading parcel delivery provider within the UK who embraces and drives change, placing our people and our customers at the heart of what we do.

Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you'll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer

Principal accountabilities;

To assist with the technical and business changes to move users from using Unit4 Desktop client to Unit4 Web client.
To assist with the design, testing, integration and support of Concur Expenses with Unit4 ERP.
To assist with the design, testing, integration and support of Proactis invoice scanning solution with Unit4 ERP.
To assist with the design, build, testing, release and support of the migration of Unit4 ERP onpremises solution to Unit4 Cloud Continuous Release.
To assist with the design, build and testing of minor technology improvements with Finance stakeholders.

Key Tasks/Areas of Responsibility

Engage with users and project stakeholders to understand functional requirements, nonfunctional requirements, technical constraints, issues, problems and risks.
Assist with documentation of current and future processes at both high and low level.
Assist as a member of the project team with planning of project tasks and coordinating activities.
Provide support for incidents, queries, requests and problems, engaging with third level support / technology partners if required.
Research solution options.
Suggest improvements to processes.
Collaborate with users, project team and wider stakeholders to design and document solutions.
Review and develop customisations and integrations with technical specialists
Assist with data migration and reconciliation.
Undertake System Integration Testing and assist with User Acceptance Testing and Operational Acceptance Testing.

Qualifications
About You

Essential technical and business skills include;
Knowledge of ERP, IT and accounting concepts.
Experience of adapting software through Configuration, Extensions, Modifications, Localisations and Integrations.
Experience of writing reports and dashboards.
MS SQL skills to write ad hoc scripts, query data.
Experience of project work.
Experience of support work and concepts.
A customer focus.
To understand the business.
Take accountability to see things through and get the job done.
Act as one team across DPD through business partnering, collaboration and stakeholder management.
Ability to develop working relationships quickly and champion change.
Energetic and resilient.

Additional Information About our benefits**:

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn't be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day.

It's important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability.

To name but a few

Holiday trading
Enhanced maternity and paternity package
Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
Free onsite car parking for all employees
Health Kiosks visiting every location
Discounted shopping from 100's of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within.

As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.