Senior Systems Accountant

Babcock International Group; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology and engineering organization is seeking a Senior Systems Accountant to manage data within the ERP system. The role focuses on month-end processes, ensuring data integrity, and supporting ERP projects. Candidates must have experience with SAP or similar, strong customer service skills, and a finance background or willingness to learn. The position offers flexible working arrangements and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Strong aptitude for finance processes and data management.
• Demonstrable experience of SAP or other ERP Systems.
• Intermediate or Advanced Excel skills in data compilation.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the processing and controls of month end activities.
• Maintain master data and investigate data inconsistencies.
• Ensure finance systems incidents are responded to timely.

Skills

Finance processes and data management

Customer service skills

Intermediate or Advanced Excel skills

Education

AAT Level 3 Qualification or equivalent

Tools

SAP

ERP Systems

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Systems Accountant
Location: Flexible, UK - Nearest Babcock Hub as contractual location + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Systems Accountant at one of our Babcock Hubs.

The Role
As a Senior Systems Accountant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Responsible for the maintenance of data within the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, ensuring finance transactional data processes without issue and for helping improve the efficiency and the standardisation of month end processing and financial master data.

Day-to-day, you’ll be sitting within Finance Business Services (FBS), the Finance Systems team own and maintain a suite of finance systems and are responsible for delivering innovation to provide improved functionality, and data integrity and security. Owning financial system processes and ensuring robust and proportionate controls. Further responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the processing and controls of month end activities to ensure deadline, for example month end reporting is met.
• Responsible for the maintenance of master data. Proactively investigate and correct any data inconsistencies.
• Ensure finance systems incidents are responded to in a timely manner and adherence to agreed SLAs.
• Support business and technical teams in relation ERP projects and enhancements.
• Responsible for setting up and releasing of projects within the ERP.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements

Essential Experience of the Senior Systems Accountant:

• Strong aptitude for finance processes and data management.
• Demonstrable experience of SAP or other ERP Systems.
• Intermediate or Advanced Excel skills in data compilation.
• Ability to demonstrate exceptional customer service skills.
• You will either have a Finance background, AAT Level 3 Qualification (or working towards) and wanting to move into a systems-based role or have a systems (ERP) background and an interest in Finance.

Qualifications for the Senior Systems Accountant:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at .

What we Offer:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible locations
• Opportunity to work with innovative technology