Finance Systems Lead - ERP/SAP - Hybrid/Leeds

Finance Systems Lead - ERP/SAP - Hybrid/Leeds

Role requires 3 days on site in Leeds

Finance Systems Lead required for leading Global client to be responsible for supporting the core finance systems and acting as a first point of escalation for the Finance Systems team for support issues. The role will involve working closely with stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, suppliers, development teams and support teams to manage resources and to translate the business requirements into deliverables.

Experience of supporting a Practice Management System (or ERP - ideally SAP) with strong functional and technical knowledge including system architecture will be essential for this role.

Key responsibilities:

• Track and resolve incidents, issues, and requests and look for opportunities to introduce efficiencies and reduce resource constraints.
• Ensure appropriate change control is followed.
• Plan and manage Project related work identifying and escalating, where necessary, any concerns or barriers to timely delivery
• Assisting with transition of any activities from Projects to Service Delivery
• Assist in the management of relationships with 3rd party suppliers.
• Implementation, monitoring and reporting of controls across all Finance systems including authorisations, segregation of duties and data integrity.
• Responsibility for providing solutions for issues in the accounts/systems and ensure the correct system configuration related to new offices and legal entity changes.
• Support the needs of the business through changing regulations and corporate structures.

Key skills:

• Experience of supporting a Practice Management System (or ERP - ideally SAP) with strong functional and technical knowledge including system architecture
• Experience of working in a finance systems function supporting business stakeholders
• Proven stakeholder management experience, demonstrating ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure.
• Present options and assist stakeholders in understanding the pros/cons and to select the appropriate one.
• Ability to hit the ground running and make a significant difference to the team and business which you support.
• Customer focused, flexible, results driven and used to operating in a period of change and renowned for your accuracy and insight.
• Be highly effective as part of a wider team, and a real team player.
• An ability to identify and own technical challenges and lead efforts to overcome these.
• Knowledge of project delivery cycles and frameworks.

Salary:
The salary my client is offering for this position is £60,000 - £70,000 per annum, plus excellent benefits and bonuses depending on annual performance.

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