PA Housing Hiring for Finance Systems Accountant Job at Leicester, England Full Time

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Finance Systems Accountant
Bede Island – Leicester

Job reference: 000063

Location: Bede Island – Leicester

Salary: £45,000 Per Annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 35 Hours Per Week

So what’s the Finance Systems Accountant role all about?

As a Finance Systems Accountant you will work with colleagues in the Finance team and beyond to drive continuous improvement to the financial systems utilised by PA Housing

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

Systems

• Act as the point of contact and conduit for all enquiries and requests for improvements and changes to PA Housing’s financial systems
• Act as the lead Finance team interface with IT colleagues for all significant financial systems issues and enhancement requests
• Maintain Chart of Accounts and ensure that any changes thereto are reflected in the reporting hierarchies of all affected systems
• Act as the Finance team’s Oracle super-user and ensure that all essential system administration tasks are performed to standard
• Work with users across the business and IT colleagues to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of the P2P purchase ordering system, including supporting system development
• Become the technical lead on Bluebox to ensure Rent and Service Charge deliverables are met, offering solutions and guidance on system optimisation.
• Support the Capital Finance team to set up scheme codes, build development scheme reports, implement enhancements to streamline intercompany recharges
• Manage end-user queries and triage / resolve as necessary

Controls

• Co-ordinate the access matrices for all Finance Team members to ensure that the appropriate segregation of duties are maintained for each role. Liaise with IT colleagues to ensure that a robust and appropriate system controls environment is maintained
• Ensure Financial systems documentation is maintained and updated including user guides for development teams
• Supporting auditors with GL data extraction and completeness

System Improvement / Development

• Project manage the implementation of approved new financial software and changes / upgrades to existing software
• Work with Finance team colleagues to undertake process reviews with a view to improving efficiency through enhanced use of appropriate software solutions
• Deploy change management initiatives to move personnel from legacy software / systems and discontinue as required (i.e. Insight)
• Support the Treasury team in projects that include a new treasury management system (TMS) and enhancements to loan security database (SQL); also contribute to system administration for electronic banking systems
• Develop robotic automation processes to improve efficiencies
• Improve system integration and interfaces across finance and other systems
• Liaise with software providers in managing relationships and contracts.
• Contribute to developing system solutions to harmonise / improve / automate processes
• Support the system development for P2P

To be successful in this role, we’d be looking for the following…

• Qualified accountant, or part-qualified with firm commitment to complete qualification
• Comfortable with the technical aspects of financial software – ‘ an IT expert in a non-IT role’
• Ability to analyse and present complex information simply
• Oracle Financials R12 – Configuration / Amendments of Oracle Financials
• Sequel report writing skills
• Experience of the various software applications typically used within a finance function
• Experience of using Microsoft Excel to an advanced level
• Experience of building strong and productive relationships with colleagues from outside the Finance function, particularly IT colleagu

Please refer to the attached job

description to find out more

Reference ID: 000063

Application deadline: 16/01/2022

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £45,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Education:

• Bachelor’s (preferred)

Experience:

• accounting: 1 year (preferred)

Work remotely:

• No