Systems Limited – Middle East & Africa (Techvista) is looking for an experienced T24 Finance SME to support a Temenos T24 core banking transformation program, ensuring accurate financial accounting, General Ledger (GL) mapping, regulatory compliance, and seamless finance operations throughout the migration.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead finance and accounting workshops to gather business requirements and translate them into technical accounting specifications.
- Review Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) to ensure accurate accounting rules, product configurations, accruals, valuations, and financial reporting.
- Perform accounting gap analysis between existing finance policies and standard Temenos T24 functionality.
- Collaborate with vendors and business stakeholders to validate accounting entries, profit distribution, and balance sheet impacts.
- Define target-state finance operating models, including daily, monthly, and year-end closing processes.
- Establish accounting rules, automated posting logic, financial controls, and reconciliation frameworks.
- Lead General Ledger (GL) mapping from legacy banking modules to the target Temenos T24 modules in coordination with Finance teams.
- Define financial data cleansing and validation rules and oversee the migration of balances and transaction data.
- Execute trial balance and sub-ledger reconciliations to ensure financial integrity following migration.
- Design finance-focused test scenarios covering end-of-day processing, accruals, profit distribution, and financial postings.
- Lead finance User Acceptance Testing (UAT), day-in-the-life simulations, and financial defect management.
- Develop and review finance SOPs, reconciliation guidelines, financial control manuals, and training materials.
Requirements & Key Skills
- 7–10 years of experience as a Finance Consultant or Finance SME in large-scale Temenos T24 core banking transformation programs.
- In-depth knowledge of Temenos accounting structures, including Core Accounting and Arrangement Architecture (AA) accounting engines.
- Strong understanding of Islamic banking product accounting, Sharia-compliant financing, and profit distribution pools.
- Experience with Temenos Payments Hub (TPH) posting lines and financial accounting configurations.
- Proven experience in GL mapping, financial data migration, trial balance reconciliation, and sub-ledger validation.
- Strong knowledge of financial reporting, regulatory requirements, accounting controls, and automated posting logic.
- Experience managing BRDs, FSDs, UAT, defect resolution, and vendor coordination.
- Professional accounting qualifications such as CPA, ACCA, CA, or equivalent are highly advantageous.
- Relevant Temenos certifications are an advantage.
- Strong analytical, documentation, stakeholder management, and problem‑solving skills.