Systems Accountant

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave + public holidays

Agile hybrid working

Pension scheme

Job summary

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd in Birmingham partners with a leading Housing Association to hire a Systems Accountant to lead the finance systems transformation and automation programmes.

You will deliver the three-year plan, act as the link between IT and finance, improve integrations, empower users with training, and ensure projects run to time. The role offers hybrid working and a strong chance to shape digital efficiencies across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Part qualified or qualified with ACCA / CIMA / ACA, or QBE will be considered.
• Experience in Social Housing Finance function.
• Experience with Sun Systems or OpenAccounts.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver the three-year transformation plan for financial systems, including upgrades or new implementations.
• Act as liaison between IT and finance on financial systems issues and enhancements.
• Collaborate with finance to review processes and improve efficiency through appropriate software.
• Improve system integration and interfaces across finance and other systems.
• Research and develop robotic automation to improve efficiencies.
• Develop system solutions to harmonise and automate processes.
• Build relationships across the business to enable smooth project delivery.
• Ensure projects run on schedule, escalated as needed to the project board.
• Liaise with software providers to assess upgrades or enhancements that benefit digitisation goals.
• Provide user support and training with friendly user guides across all finance systems.
• Provide system administration for Finance systems.

Education

ACCA / CIMA / ACA or QBE

Tools

Sun Systems

OpenAccounts

Job description

I'm delighted to be partnered exclusively, with a leading Housing Association in the Birmingham area. My client is looking to hire a Systems Accountant, to join the Finance team and lead on the transformation and automation projects.

Key responsibilities for this requirement are to maintain systems and provide systems administration, support the wider business and ensure transformation project are aligned with the Finance systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• lead and deliver the three-year transformation plan for financial systems, this may include full systems upgrade or implementation of new system.
• Act as the key link between IT colleagues and all significant financial systems issues and enhancement requests.
• Collaborate with finance team colleagues to undertake process reviews with a view to improving efficiency through enhanced use of appropriate software solution.
• Improve system integration and interfaces across finance and other systems.
• Research and develop robotic automation processes to improve efficiencies.
• Contribute to developing system solutions to harmonise, improve and automate processes.
• Build relationships across the business to enable projects to work smoothly and effectively.
• Ensure projects run in line with the timetable any issues are escalated to the relevant project board.
• Liaise with software providers to assess the benefits of upgrades or product enhancements that could improve the functionality and help the finance goal of digitising more of its processes.
• Provide user support and training creating user friendly guidance across all finance business systems.
• Provide system administration for Finance systems.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• Part qualified or qualified with a recognised UK Accountancy qualification ACCA / CIMA / ACA, or QBE will be considered.
• Experience in working in a Social Housing Finance function.
• Experience in working with Sun Systems or OpenAccounts
• 27 days annual leave plus public holidays, including three extra days leave over the Christmas break.
• Agile hybrid working - days in office a week.
• Either the Local Government Pension Scheme or the Social Housing Pension Scheme