Senior Finance System Analyst

The Role:

Successful & timely administration and (where required) further development of PIB’s core Finance Systems.
Provide support and cover for the Senior Finance System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Become a system’s SME on at least one of PIB core Finance Systems (Oracle NetSuite, Onestream, Kyriba)
• Maintain core Finance Systems’ data integrity by managing data imports, exports, and updates.
• Ensure ongoing application support including user setups, user permissions, system controls & close process.
• Collaborate with system stakeholders, line manager and other parties on system changes and improvements.
• Help integrate core financial systems with other applications.
• Help maintain seamless data flow and communication between the core Finance Systems.
• Help develop, implement and maintain appropriate data policies and operating procedures.
• Help coordinate and execute system upgrades and patches, ensuring minimal disruption to daily operations.
• Help develop any junior team members by sharing knowledge, experience and system knowhow.
• Provide support and cover where required for the rest of the Finance Systems team.

Skills and Experience:

• Maintain data entry templates & mapping rules, calculation/consolidation rules and reports/views/dashboards.
• Analyse & reconcile large volumes of data.
• Maintain system admin guides.
• Mentor and develop junior members of the team.
• Stakeholder management
• Minimum of 3-5 years practical work experience in either a Finance System, super-user or admin role, of which 2 years should be continued admin and/or development of a single Finance System.
• Bsc or Msc in Accounting & Finance (or equivalent course)
• Knowledge of critical GL dimensions and objects (Entity, profit/cost centre, currency, coA, period, vendor, etc)
• Knowledge of parent-to-child relationship and hierarchies
• Critical accounting and finance concepts and principles (double-entry, accruals, cash entries, capitalisation, intercompany, etc)
• Typical GL maintenance procedures including user assignment, security profiles, data input templates, user workflows and user reports.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• CIMA, ACCA, ACA qualified
• Relevant Oracle NetSuite experience, including qualifications/certificates
• Small to Large scale system dimensionality & processes
• Good understanding of accounting & financial control processes
• High level understanding of purpose of business & transformation rules
• Excel VBA experience
• Excel Modelling experience

Further information:

As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits –

• Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
• Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
• Company pension scheme
• Very generous maternity and paternity leave packages
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
• Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
• Referral schemes
• Discounted rates on PIB products
• We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
• We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
• PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
• Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
• PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB’s carbon footprint.

We are proud of our success and growth and have been recognised for many industry awards across our business. If you wish to work for a company that truly puts people at the heart of their organisation, then we would love to hear from you. PIB operates a flexible working policy, and our management teams will talk to you about how that would meet both your flexible working needs and those of the business and role you are applying for. We would love to hear from you if you want to hear more about opportunities in PIB.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

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