£50k -
£50k per annum

A leading housing association bases in the South West is looking to hire a Consultant Systems Accountant to join their Finance team on a 4 months FTC.
The position holder will be responsible for the coordination, delivery and validation of financial data from merging entities together with the load and reconciliation of that data to the financial systems.

Key Accountabilities

Extract, review, merge and prepare loads to systems for standing data including chart of accounts, customers, suppliers, banks, etc
Extract, reconcile, and prepare loads to systems for transactional history data
Reconcile open items at all data load points for customers, suppliers, banks and control accounts
Design interface specifications as required for the IT team. Test and implement interfaces delivered by the IT team.
Prepare and deliver security role profiles for users of the financial systems
Prepare, maintain and present project plans for the merger activities consulting with project stakeholders
Prepare and deliver training plans for end users
Provide post Go-live support, training and assistance as required
Support he project team and wider business on systems accounting issues
Line responsibility for project team members as required

Experience and Qualifications

Strong systems accountant demonstrated with at least three years post qualified financial systems experience.
Qualified member of a CCAB body (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) is essential. Experience and sound knowledge of financial implementations is essential. Other desirable areas of expertise include
An understanding of the housing industry would be an advantage for the role.
Experience with systems that relate and interface to financial systems such as Housing, Care, HR, Document management, P2P and Sales is desirable.
Basic knowledge of VAT is essential, and sector specific knowledge and prior experience of partial exemption is desirable.
A track record of independent problem solving and the confidence and personal skills to liaise directly with professional service providers and senior colleagues as required.
Expert level excel skills and experience and knowledge of multiple financial systems, ideally including Sun, is essential.
Ability to analyse, interpret and present financial information clearly and concisely.
Ability to work with different teams across finance and development operations with understanding of the different needs and requirements of the group’s various stakeholders.
Ability to work flexibly and manage own workload to meet both team and business objectives.


Benefits:

Paying £50K p.a. plus benefits
Highly hybrid working

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.

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