Finance System Manager

A leading Commercial Company based near Uxbridge are currently recruiting for a Business Partner role on a permanent basis. You will be a Part Qualified Accountant and have used SAP recently or currently.

The Key Responsibilities include:

• Managing SAP system rollouts for EMEA companies; requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data cleansing, training, go live, Post go live support
• Day to Day UK Master data maintenance
• Periodic data reviews of customers, suppliers, bank details, freelancers, users
• Performing monthly financial close processes within SAP, including month end system reconciliations to tight deadlines to ensure closing timetable is met.
• SAP ECC 6.0 and Onbase system training and support to UK users.
• Proactive with ongoing knowledge transfer to users
• Creating country specific end user documentation and keeping it up to date
• Working knowledge of legacy sales systems to be able to understand and maintain the sales order and invoice interfaces from Xytech Enterprise and Xytech Mediapulse via biztalk into SAP Idocs to ensure records are correctly recorded in SAP and integrity is maintained; Working with USA and India teams on Failed SAP Idocs - issue investigation and resolution
• Assisting UK users with many queries on items such as PO queries, fixing errors on upload spreadsheets, program error resolution, looking into perceived data inconsistencies in SAP and Bobj etc, VAT reporting and clearing, currency problems, fixed asset corrections, extracting data to support the Auditor requests etc
• Testing end to end processes - order to cash, procure to pay when the configuration on sales, payment systems or SAP gets updated
• Working on new Ad hoc financial projects - potential new SAP roll outs to Spain and France, improving the intercompany clearing process, concur roll out, SAP upgrade
• Assisting the Finance Director EMEA and USA teams with new system initiatives and business process re-engineering.
• Collaboratively working with offshore teams to achieve solutions for UK and non UK businesses. Main point of contact for UK-centric issues for USA and India team

Person Specification:

• At least 5 years' experience of system implementation, operation and/or administration of a large scale ERP system.
• Experience of working in an international multicurrency organisation with multiple businesses across time zones and liaising with multiple stakeholders at all levels
• SAP ECC 6.0, all round experience (MM, SD, FICO) as an end user or consultant
• At least 2 full project implementation lifecycles
• Knowledge of Business Objects, BPC, BMC, Xytech desirable
• Proficient with MS Excel
• Accounting qualification and previous system accounting experience is desirable

If this role is of interest please apply directly to Debbie Webb or Jessica Mundy at Parkside Recruitment. If you are already registered or previously registered with Parkside please call Debbie or Jessica and speak to one of us directly.

Parkside Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Parkside Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.