Systems Accountant

Sellick Partnership; Manchester (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Manchester is seeking a Systems Accountant/Project Manager to enhance system development and improve financial reporting. This role is ideal for someone with a strong accounting background and experience in leading finance projects. The successful candidate will lead system improvements, provide training, and ensure processes are documented and efficient.

Benefits

Inclusive recruitment processes

Qualifications

• Experience delivering continuous improvement projects across finance systems.
• Ability to lead projects and influence senior leadership.
• Background in accounting with experience as a systems accountant.

Responsibilities

• Lead on system development for enhancing data accuracy and decision making.
• Provide training and support for financial reporting systems.
• Implement replacement financial systems and ensure process documentation.

Skills

Continuous improvement

Project management

Data accuracy

Financial reporting

Education

Accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)

Job description

Sellick Partnership are currently recruiting for a systems accountant / project manager for a leading professional services firm in Manchester, who have seen significant growth over the past decade.

The systems accountant will lead on system development ensuring a robust and value adding system to enhance data accuracy and commercial decision making. You will own the continuous projects across all systems and be a conduit between finance and IT.

The Role

• Ensuring that systems work efficiently and effectively, providing a robust and value adding system to the business, to support forecasting and financial reporting.
• Ensuring the continuous improvement of the system and associated reporting
• Providing training so that the system can be used to maximum potential
• Developing enhancements so that we are continually adding value
• To successfully implement a replacement financial system for Dimensions.
• To ensure processes and procedures are adequately recorded, tested and updated

The systems accountant position would suit someone from a accounting background with significant experience delivering continuous improvement projects across finance and reporting systems and the ability to lead projects and influence senior leadership teams.

You will ideally come from a similar systems accountant position in a professional services organisation with a accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) although individuals qualified by experience will equally be considered.

If you are looking for a new challenge as a systems accountant and would like to discuss further please apply or get in touch with John Thistlethwaite at Sellick Partnership

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Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.