Role Title: Systems Accountant – BC
Status: Permanent
Location: South West England | Hybrid (2x days/week)
Salary: £60-70,000 + package
SystemsAccountants are currently partnered with a highly acquisiton based Travel business who are underway with a Digital Transformation programme supported by the delivery and subsequent adoption of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central from a monolithic legacy landscape. As the business traverses the next phase they are seeking a permanent Systems Accountant to support the programme whilst preparing for BAU/Run operations.
During the BC Implementation:
- Collaborate with external consultants and internal business finance teams to assist with the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Work with existing group businesses to map various current COAs to the new Group COA being implemented with Business Central.
- Act as a super user within the business to help each business implement Business Central.
Ongoing role:
- Design, analyze, and review all financial systems, practices, and policies to ensure these are efficient and effective within the D365 system.
- Serve as the finance lead for all system enhancements, supporting configuration changes and reviewing new features.
- Analyze all financial documents and related GL postings to ensure confidence in the financial processing of the Business Central system.
- Administer, manage, maintain, and update all system configuration and administrative settings across all BC entities.
- Review and enforce governance and controls across all finance systems and processes.
- Post manual journals, review the impact on reporting, and work with the systems team to ensure automation to avoid inconsistencies in the system. Maintain a log for manual entries requiring reconciliation to keep all ledgers clean.
- Handle corrective/cancelling invoices, review the process to follow and treatment of entries, monitor and manage within the system.
- Monitor and manage all system configuration in BC and collaborate with systems team/external consultants as needed to ensure system integrity.
- Design and refine specific BC Finance month-end processes in D365, streamlining all activities and ensuring team alignment and system checks to ensure timely closure.
- Consider all period-end activities, map, and ensure clear processes within the system to ensure transparency for the whole department.
Required Skills:
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central preferred.
- Management Accounting/Financial Accounting experience.
- Effective communication skills, demonstrating emotional intelligence.
- Ability to convey points clearly to both finance and non-finance colleagues.
- Proactive approach and ability to operate on own initiative.
- Attention to detail, accuracy, and high standards of delivery.
If this role is of interest please DM or email andrew@systemsaccountants.com.