Systems Accountant

Southern Water; Worthing; Hybrid; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Water is looking for a Systems Accountant to join their finance team in Worthing. The role focuses on managing finance systems, ensuring best practices in finance processes, and maintaining SAP integrity. This full-time position offers a salary of up to £50,000 along with generous benefits including a pension scheme, annual leave, health cash plan, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous pension up to 11% company contribution

25 days annual leave

Life assurance equal to 4x salary

Health Cash Plan

Fully funded eye tests

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Significantly experienced in managing SAP FI-CO.
• Qualified accountant or qualified by experience.
• Able to work with IT and Finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining the chart of accounts and finance system integrity.
• Ensuring segregation of duties and proper user access.
• Supporting financial system optimizations and projects.

Skills

SAP FI-CO

Financial Reporting

Data Management

Education

Qualified Accountant

Tools

SAP

Job description

Closing Date
2025-06-25
Job Title: Systems Accountant

Location: Durrington (Worthing)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37/ week

Salary: £50,000

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

Job Overview

The role is a key appointment within the finance team where you will be contributing to Southern Water's longer-term finance strategy.

You will play a key part in ensuring the underlying finance system (currently SAP) is utilised effectively, maintains integrity and that best practice processes and controls are in place and observed.

You will be responsible for ensuring the segregation of duties are maintained and users have the appropriate access, whilst ensuring leavers are correctly removed.

You will ensure all areas of responsibility are fully documented and kept up to date as and when processes change.

You role will involve:

Master Data Maintenance

• Maintaining the chart of accounts
• Totex master data
• Liaising with other teams within finance to maintain all finance systems integrity.

Estimated Time of Role 25%

GR-IR and Commitment Report Monitoring

• Ensuring the legacy amounts reduce by following up with FBP's, PM's and PO Requisitioners.

Estimated Time of Role 25%

SAP User Access Administration

• Ensuring we maintain SOD, issuing correct roles to Finance in accordance with SAP Security Team. Removing SAP access when either an employee leaves SW or no longer requires SAP.
• Design and embed an IT controls framework over key financial reporting systems linked to material financial accounts and processes

• Estimated Time of Role 15%

SAP Optimisation and Projects

• Supporting developments being made on various projects.

Estimated Time of Role 20%

Month end support

• Answering queries raised during month end, primarily settlement issues.

Estimated Time of Role 10%

Journal Dashboard

• Monthly production of the journal dashboard to enable future streamlining of journals.

Estimated Time of Role 5%

About You

To be right for this role, you will have worked as a Systems Accountant and ideally have knowledge of SAP.

You will be:

- Significantly experienced in managing SAP FI-CO (other financial systems would be desirable)

- A qualified accountant or qualified by experience

- Able to work with IT and Finance stakeholders, providing a bridge between the demands of Finance and the capabilities of the system and its wider environment

- Driven to continuously improve finance systems and processes

- Highly organised, with the ability to work under pressure

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington (Worthing) office and home (usual office days are Monday & Tuesday).

We are offering a salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution

• 25 days annual leave

• Life assurance equal to 4x salary

• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)

• Health Cash Plan

• Full funded eye tests

• Two paid volunteering days a year

• Occupational health service

• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers

• Digital GP service

• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications

• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

• Cycle to work scheme

Join our Finance team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you're not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that 'normal' office hours aren't possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we'll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

If this role isn't quite what you're looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support - because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That's why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you'll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement:

Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.

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