Finance Systems Accountant/Manager - Hybrid - Coventry - New!

ZipRecruiter; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Finance Systems Accountant/Manager for a hybrid role in Coventry. This key position involves the management of financial systems to enhance reporting and decision support for stakeholders, ensuring data integrity and efficiency in financial operations. The successful candidate will bring strong SQL Server and Power BI skills, along with financial systems expertise, to develop and improve reporting structures, contributing to business success.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Collaborative team environment

Competitive benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in managing financial reporting systems.
• Familiarity with legacy systems and data integrity.
• Ability to collaborate with IT for systems upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of financial reporting systems and related reports.
• Designing and implementing new financial reporting data needs.
• Collaborating with FP&A to enhance reporting processes.

Skills

Strong SQL Server skills

Power BI experience

Understanding of financial systems

Experience supporting finance teams

Improving legacy systems

Education

CIMA or ACCA qualified or qualified-by-experience

Job description

Job Description

Job title: Finance Systems Accountant/Manager - Hybrid - Coventry - New!

Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 + Package

Contract type: Permanent

About the role

The Finance Systems Accountant/Manager plays a critical role in managing the financial systems that support the business’ financial reporting, such that the business can provide robust and insightful strategic financial analysis, guidance and robust decision support to key stakeholders, primarily to Operational leaders but also to other Functional leads as required. This is a pivotal role in developing the bespoke financial systems, reporting tools, and underlying codebase. Rather than trying to replace them like-for-like, we’re using this moment to evolve.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of Financial Reporting Systems and related Financial Reports, which means:
• Working closely with the FP&A function to design and implement insightful reporting and support the continuous evolution of reporting to meet business needs.
• Designing, implementing new data needs, and release into the Financial Reporting ecosystem
• Review existing data and systems to identify areas for improvement, automation, and increased efficiency.
• Ensure Data Integrity to ensure data is accurate, reliable and secure at all times.
• Troubleshoot & resolve issues within the Finance team.
• Maintaining, configuring, and supporting all finance systems, ensuring agility to adapt to changing business needs
• Working closely with IT to lead or support financial systems upgrades, testing and implementation.

Requirements

• Strong SQL Server skills
• Power BI experience
• Possess a strong understanding of financial systems and reporting structures
• Experience supporting finance teams
• Comfortable working with and improving legacy systems (some Access reports still in use)
• Preferably qualified or qualified-by-experience (CIMA, ACCA, etc.)

What we offer

• Career development: We offer career advancement and development opportunities through our bespoke apprenticeship programmes, our extensive in-house training academy, and coaching and mentorship.
• Collaborative team environment: Join a diverse and inclusive workplace where you can collaborate with passionate and talented individuals.
• Meaningful impact: Contribute to projects that make a real difference in the community and environment.
• Competitive benefits package: We recognise and reward your hard work with our wide-ranging benefits package designed to prioritise your wellbeing, support life choices, and help in both good and challenging times.

If this is of interest, please send us your updated CV and a member of our team will get in touch!