The position of Systems Accountant will require a commercially aware individual who can communicate at all levels within a large company environment. The key requirements are as follows;
· Provide technical and functional support for accounting and finance users (Staff of 12).
· Responsibility for the day-to-day management of the core Sage 200 accounting system
· Responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Purchase Ordering System. To act as the administrator for the software; typically to amend the approval hierarchy and limits depending on leavers / joiners and for holiday cover purposes.
· Maintain user roles, security, profiles, work-flow rules, etc.
· Collaborate with operational and support departments to identify and solve business problems and maintain the integrity of data inflows to the accounting systems of the organisation.
· Liaise with key members of the IT team to facilitate delivery of finance user requirements and resolution of technical queries.
· Ensure a high standard of service working with internal and external stakeholders to deliver business information for management and statutory accounting, as well as financial planning, budgeting and forecasting.
· Provide first-line support to key stakeholders for the web-based collaborative planning application and assist the Management Accountant and Head of Finance with reporting requirements during budgeting and forecasting exercises.
· Proactively identify opportunities for change, process improvement and system enhancements to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the client accounting system, its processes and associated activities.
· Assist with the scheduling, execution and documentation of system testing for key finance project deliverable.
· To be able to extract data from either from the core Sage 200 tables and / or related data warehousing cubes.
· To carry out ad-hoc financial report authoring using SQL where necessary.
· Assist with documenting key financial processes where necessary.
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