Systems Accountant

Posted 18 August 2020
Salary £50000 - £70000 per annum
Location
Job type Permanent
Discipline Accounting & Finance
ReferenceCMSA-1808_1597745319
Contact NameCelia Matkins

Job description

Our client, an international Asset Management firm based in the city of London are currently seeking an experienced Finance IT Specialist to join their team.

Using Oracle Fusion, the Finance IT Specialist will sit within the Finance team and will be responsible for coordinating and executing financial transactions and activities, including bill payment, invoicing, journal recording and reporting. The Finance IT Specialist will prepare regular financial reports and assist in the presentation of these reports to managers and executives as well as creating and adhering to budgets for specific departments, projects, and business needs. To be selected for interview you must hold a background specialising in IT within Finance and have used Oracle (ideally Oracle Fusion)

Responsibilities

  • Managing and maintaining system integrity
  • Perform and correct all reconciliations on systems
  • Continuously develop the systems to satisfy business requirements
  • Opening new accounts and cost centres
  • Maintaining all entity and account hierarchies
  • Training of users
  • Expanding the use of the systems within the business by being the ambassador of the product set
  • Keeping up to date with new developments and rolling this out to the business
  • Manage the running of the Budget and Forecast process
  • Ensure that currency conversions are correct
  • Execute all month end and year end procedures on the systems
  • Building reports for the business requirements
  • Building dashboards and analysis for business requirements

Requirements

  • Degree educated with finance/business/computing orientation a plus
  • 2-5 years' industry experience
  • Oracle experience, Oracle Fusion would be highly advantageous
  • Understand system controls and how to execute them
  • Understand the chart of accounts
  • Understand the financial reporting systems and how to report off them
  • Understand and use the models built in finance
  • Ability to reconcile actual, budget and forecast figures
  • Strong problem-solving ability/logical thinker and highly numerate
  • Ability to work under pressure to strict timelines and manage multiple priorities
  • Attention to detail and high level of accuracy

Salary - dependant on experience.