Finance Systems Accountant

Riverlane; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverlane in Cambridge, UK, seeks a mid-level Finance Systems Accountant to join the Operations team. You will own the finance platforms, drive NetSuite configurations, data migration, and stakeholder engagement to enable robust financial controls.

You will collaborate with FP&A, treasury and compliance teams to ensure accurate period-end close, multi-entity setups, and SOX 404(a) alignment. The role is hands-on, delivery-focused, with hands-on data work and partner management.

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA/ACMA/CIMA or ACCA accountant.
• Experience implementing and configuring finance systems, ideally NetSuite.
• Experience across multiple finance-system implementations, including testing and go-live.
• Strong data-migration and data-quality capabilities: cleansing, mapping, reconciliation.
• Strong understanding of GL, AP, AR, fixed assets, intercompany and month-end close.
• Experience designing chart-of-accounts and multi-entity master data setup.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business-platform requirements across the organisation.
• Develop architecture options and evaluate technology stacks.
• Create implementation plans and a roadmap with audit timetables.
• Lead internal finance work on implementations: requirements, data model, migration, testing.
• Set up and migrate high-quality data and ensure go-live in all systems.
• Deliver NetSuite implementation to PCAOB and SOX 404(a) standards.
• Document processes and maintain audit trails for external auditors.
• Support CRM, stock admin, AP, treasury, FP&A and BI integrations.

Skills

ACA

ACMA/CIMA

ACCA

NetSuite

Excel

SQL

Education

ACA/ACCA qualification

Tools

NetSuite OneWorld

Job description

Finance Systems Accountant at Riverlane, Cambridge, UK. A mid-level full time position in the Operations team, listed under business operations.

The salary range for this role is broad, as we are able to consider varying levels of experience. Any offer made will carefully take into account level of experience (including relevant industry experience), transferable relevant skills and previous relevant achievements.

About the role

As we scale and strengthen our financial control environment, we are transforming our finance and business systems — including a NetSuite implementation delivered to PCAOB and SOX 404(a) standards, alongside the wider platform landscape (including CRM, stock administration, AP, treasury, FP&A and BI) and their integrations.

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the Finance Systems Accountant is the finance-side expert who makes this happen. This is a hands‑on, delivery‑focused role for a qualified accountant who will spend all of their time on our finance business systems. Your job is to do the analysis and legwork that facilitates good decisions from key stakeholders, and then to execute those decisions into the platforms. A key part of the role is enabling successful implementations through high‑quality data set‑up, including data migration, and strong stakeholder management throughout.

What we need

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACMA/CIMA or ACCA)
• Proven, hands‑on experience implementing and configuring finance systems, ideally NetSuite (OneWorld / multi-entity, multi-currency)
• Experience across several finance‑system implementations, including requirements, testing and go‑live
• Strong data‑migration and data‑quality experience — cleansing, mapping, reconciliation and validation — with the rigour to land implementations on accurate, well‑structured data
• Strong understanding of core finance processes (GL, AP, AR, fixed assets, intercompany, month‑end close, revenue recognition) — you speak finance, not just systems
• Experience designing chart‑of‑accounts / data models and setting up master data in a multi‑entity environment

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business‑platform requirements from across the organisation, so decisions are well‑informed
• Develop business‑platform architecture options and evaluate the technology stack against Riverlane’s objectives, presenting clear recommendations for stakeholders to decide
• Build implementation plans and a sequenced systems roadmap for stakeholder agreement, balancing priorities, bandwidth and the external audit timetable
• Run the process to identify and evaluate third‑party implementation partners, and make recommendations — the appointment decision sits with stakeholders
• Lead the internal finance work on implementations — requirements, chart‑of‑accounts and data‑model design, master data, data migration, configuration input, testing and acceptance — coordinating the chosen implementation partners
• Set up and migrate high‑quality data — a key enabler of every implementation. Own the finance‑side data workstream: defining data requirements and standards, cleansing and validating source data, mapping and reconciling it, and planning and running data migration and post‑migration checks, so each system goes live on complete, accurate, well‑structured data.
• Deliver the NetSuite implementation to PCAOB and SOX 404(a) standards, ensuring the platforms produce auditable, well‑controlled outputs; work closely with our internal‑controls specialist, who designs the controls, to execute those designs into the systems
• Own systems change management — documenting process and configuration changes, securing the appropriate approvals, and maintaining a clear audit trail (a requirement of our external auditors)
• Support the wider platform landscape — CRM, stock administration, AP, treasury, FP&A and BI — and the integrations into NetSuite, helping keep change across systems coordinated
• Document business processes and systems as they are built, feeding audit‑readiness and the finance team’s process documentation