Systems Accountant

Our client, based in Woking is looking for a Systems Accountant to join their thriving team.

Dimensions of Role:

 

• System management - maintaining the Group Consolidation and Reporting System BPC and ensuring that it is available to over 200 end users with minimal disruptions

 

 

• Data maintenance - uploading data to systems or supervising uploads using controlled processes, including to the Grants Tracking System and the SAP integrated projects, grants and finance system, used by around 4,000 users

 

 

• Business Change-working with business operations, external suppliers and IT to upgrade and modify systems from time to time, devising and undertaking or overseeing tests and managing the change process

 

 

• Business Support - supporting and training end users on the use of BPC and on the SAP integrated system and developing and testing management reports

 

 

• Staff line management - management of the Systems and Data maintenance Accountant

 

Key End Results and typical Responsibilities:

The Group Consolidation and Reporting System BPC is reliable and continuously improved to meet the operational needs of Plan's Worldwide users

 

• Maintaining and developing the consolidation and reporting system BPC

 

 

• Ensuring that adequate security is in place in the links between BPC and other applications

 

 

• Creating data mapping tools for loading data to BPC

 

 

• Ensuring that appropriate backups of the application are taken as required and tested from time to time

 

 

• Managing the BPC database and ensuring that appropriate archiving of data is in place to ensure that the application runs effectively

 

 

• Creating and updating BPC technical process manuals

 

 

• Providing audit trails of maintenance procedures for testing by external and internal auditors and assisting with the audit processes

 

Financial and non-financial data is uploaded to systems using controlled processes

 

• Supervising the uploads of grants expenditure data to the Grants tracking system in accordance with the Group schedule until the system is phased out in late 2015 / early 2016

 

 

• Supervising the uploads of restricted funds donation information (grants commitments and actual income) to the SAP integrated system in accordance with the Group schedule

 

 

• Ensuring that the schedule for uploading the annual environmental reporting data to BPC is met

 

SAP BPC is effectively administered

 

• Maintaining a schedule and approval process for the set up and removal of access rights and opening and closing of monthly periods and quarterly or annual reporting periods

 

 

• Supervising the set up and removal of user access rights on a timely basis

 

 

• Supervising the opening and closing of reporting periods and process workflows on BPC

 

 

• Ensuring that the workload of the systems and data maintenance accountant is adequately covered whilst they are on leave

 

 

• Ensuring that all system requirements for periodic financial reporting (e.g. monthly, quarterly, yearly, budgeting etc) for National Organisations, Country Offices, Regional Offices and IH are in place in a timely manner

 

 

• Ensure that daily optimisation, compression and index defragmentation tasks are carried out successfully on BPC

 

End users of SAP systems are supported and trained and reports meet business requirements

 

• Conducting BPC training for end users

 

 

• Documenting user guides and