- Responsible for managing the day-to-day administration of NetSuite and any of its associated technologies (currently includes, Concur, Stripe, Avalara, FloQast & integrations)
- Responsible for the 2nd line support of all users by triage, resolving user/system issues. Seek support from our NetSuite SI Partner and/or NetSuite when appropriate.
- 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.
- Act as Fastmarkets internal NetSuite expert, support the design phase and eventual signoff.
- Support the Finance IT lead on the technical design requirements gathering and feeding into the Technical Design Authority and NetSuite Design Solution.
- Provide advise on best practice when evaluating non-standard solutions and working with the SI on the best outcome to minimise scripted customisations.
- Lead and support the NetSuite SI
- 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.
- Supporting the SI on the integration with key partner add-on, such as Concur, Stripe, Avalara, Anaplan, to name a few.
- 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 creation of the use cases, test scripts by working with the Fastmarkets Finance SMEs and SI.
- Lead the SIT testing from a NetSuite technical perspective.
- Support the day-to-day UAT esters.
- Lead the triage of any issues/bugs from FM testers before handing over to the SI for resolution.
- NetSuite specialist who has +3 years experience in building, and configuring and supporting the application
- NetSuite ERP and Administrator Certification.
- Experience in implementing, developing or managing other non-ERP finance applications
- 5+ years experience in in accounting or finance operations roles
- Experience in a multi-currency and multi jurisdiction organisation
- Experience of waterfall & Agile software development life cycles (SDLC)
- Strong stakeholder management skillset and a natural collaborator
- Can challenge current practices and think innovatively in executing work.
- Able to work independently and manage multiple deadlines across the year.
- 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
- METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance
- ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
- GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
- INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
- CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
- COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
Finance Solutions Manager - London, United Kingdom - Fastmarkets
Description
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets. Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
This is a newly created position in the business. 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.
Principal Accountabilities
Finance application operations accountabilities
Lead netsuite consultant for continuous improvement projects
Lead the design of all enhancements and additions to the Day 2 solutions.
Lead the Build phase of Netsuite enhancements, working alongside ourNetSuite SI and the Finance team:
Support the Finance Training strategy
Lead the Testing phase of the implementations
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. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
Skills and knowledge
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It's this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
You've read a little about us – now it's over to you
If you like what you've read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it's time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it's used to determine whether or not you'll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we'll ask you on the day.
It's vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you're great.