Finance Systems Senior Manager - South West England, United Kingdom - Sanderson

Sanderson

Verified Company

South West England, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

My client is looking for a Finance Systems senior manager you will own the support, maintenance and development of the full suite of Financial and Actuarial systems and interfaces used across the Finance function.

You will manage a team whose focus will be on our core corporate accounting platform (Oracle EBS) and it's relevant sub modules.

The team will also manage all other associated systems to support the full range of key departmental process including:

Accounting & Reconciliations
Actuarial Reporting
Collections/Payments
Banking
Capital, Investments & Unit Pricing
Tax

Key Responsibilities:

You will support Finance senior management from a technical perspective, providing input to inform the development of our overall departmental technology strategy and shape our systems landscape.

You will act as the Technical Owner for all Finance Systems:

Oracle EBS and all sub modules: GL/AR/AP/FAH/Treasury/iProcurement
Finastra Fusion Bascative-IP
Tall Group CheckPrint & Banking Assist
Banking

portals

Oracle Essbase
Insight Software Clarity 7 & CDM
BlackLine Reconciliations
Tagetik Solvency II
FIS Prophet
RNA R3S Modeler (AFM)
Deloitte XSG
KPMG PX-Cube
Tax

Systems Alphatax

You will lead the team responsible for the
Technical Development & Change of the relevant Finance systems, with a focus upon:

Prioritising and scheduling the work undertaken across the team
Delivery of all required system version upgrades required to remain in support
Development of any necessary interfaces between our systems and those which are up/down stream
System Testing and coordination of UAT
Identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement
Act as a Technical Lead, supporting the delivery of all relevant projects which impact Finance Systems
You will be accountable from a Risk and Audit perspective for all relevant Finance Systems, ensuring that they are operated within our risk appetite framework, and that all Internal/External Audit requests are properly complied with.
You will act as the Business Continuity representative for Finance, ensuring that we have a current Business Continuity plan and that Disaster Recovery tests of all Finance systems is carried out within the required timeframes.

About you:

You are a qualified accountant with an excellent understanding of double entry bookkeeping and how that relates to accounting system analysis and design, or otherwise qualified by significant experience in systems development in a Financial Services environment.
You have relevant IT or Programming Qualifications/experience. You have expert Functional and Technical knowledge of Oracle Financials R12, specifically 12.
You have indepth knowledge and experience of Unit Pricing processes and procedures, and familiarity with external trading via online portals and the automation of settlements.
You have expert knowledge of PL-SQL, Unix and sFTP concepts, and indepth knowledge of specialist tools such as TOAD, DATALOAD, Core FTP, PuTTy, Workflow Builder and J-Developer.
You have a sound knowledge of Oracle reporting tools such as Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Reports