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Job purpose
The role of the Financial Systems Manager is to lead on system enhancements and finance process review and improvements. This role will play a pivotal link between Finance, IT and Project Team and therefore we are looking for someone with extensive experience in all aspects of large complex financial systems implementation and process / systems review.
Working with market leading products and partners, the role will cover both projects & BAU and will be a crucial player in working with both technology and finance teams internally and externally.
The role is a critical part of an exciting transformation journey for the client and will play a significant part in the success of our move from Microsoft GP to Workday.



Duties and responsibilities

* Act as a key member of the Finance Systems team, forging strong relationships with both the business and IT
* Help to build and design robust finance system processes (workday specific)
* Key member of the delivery team to implement Workday Financials across the business
* Manage and migrate finance data projects, including supporting the transition from Microsoft GP to Workday
* Manage robust interfaces between inhouse systems and Workday Financials
* Ensure the finance team have strong confidence in the delivery of finance system projects, upgrades and change as required
* Ensure the finance systems team are providing ongoing change, support and development across a number of areas, including but not limited to: Financial Accounting, Fixed Assets, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Intercompany, Consolidations, Treasury, Tax, Security and Reporting
* To assist with identifying and implementing improvements to business processes
* To manage bi-annual upgrades, including regression testing and implementation of new functionality
* Establish best practices for financial systems use and system guides/procedures for users
* To work with 3rd parties and various external partners
* Deal with complex end user challenges on a frequent basis
Qualifications & Requirements

Requirements include:
* 4+ years experienced Systems Accountant or Finance Systems Manager that has held a role within a reputable brand
* Played a key role within delivery of complex ERP system implementations, with focus on Finance (ideally Workday)
* Demonstrable experience of leading on data migration, user acceptance testing, integrations and process review
* A qualified Accountant, with any relevant qualifications such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc
● First rate communication, inter-personal, and influencing skills
● Excellent critical thinking skills and attention to detail including the capacity to identify and appropriately assess and order competing interests and priorities.
● Highly IT literate and forward thinking when it comes to technology adoption
● Solid technical and analytical skills
● Methodical and thorough approach to investigation and solution of problems
● Outstanding people skills - able to assess staff skill levels and to delegate appropriately
● Self-motivated and wishing to make a difference, with a track record of achievements
● Able to break down complex technical matters into easily understood concepts

Desirable:
* Experience with Workday
* Experience in consolidation and intercompany accounting
* A background of technical skills - Excel

Location
The job is centred around two locations Durham (where the IT team is based) and Kenilworth (where the Finance team is based) the role could work from either location, but expect travel to the other location when needed

The role

This exciting role comes with the opportunity for extensive customer-facing work across consulting, project management and potentially presales. You will be a Consultant with a strong business understanding and a passion for new technology, looking to join a friendly, professional and dynamic team.



As part of the Operations Team, you will join a team of experienced consultants to manage the implementation of the client's software for customers, interacting with multiple stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams to provide high-quality training, guidance and expertise. You will be a qualified or part qualified accountant with a track record of delivering successful ERP implementations and managing system integrations. Thriving at new challenges and working in a dynamic environment, you will be a team player in an environment where colleagues support each other.





Main responsibilities

* Acquiring an in-depth knowledge of the client's product
* Managing the implementation for new customers
* Ensuring implementations follow best practices, helping customers streamline their business processes
* Implementation project management
* Driving implementation projects to deliver measurable business benefits as identified in the pre-sales process
* Managing third-party relationships
* Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and within scope
* Reporting to the Consulting Manager or a senior member of the Management Team, submitting weekly timesheets and 15Five feedback
* Providing customer training, including alongside new starters and interns where required
* Managing consulting team resources alongside the Head of Professional Services when planning projects
* Running implementation workshops
* Intermittent testing of new releases
* Input into development priorities, in particular, in relation to UK-specific accounting requirements
* Assistance with presales support



Essential qualifications and experience

* Part qualified accountant (AAT, ACCA, ICAEW or CIMA)
* Practical experience in one or more of the following business areas:
* Management and financial accounting
* Project management, project accounting, project billing
* Multi-currency reporting, multi-company accounting and consolidation
* Purchasing, stock accounting and ordering
* Strong understanding of fundamental business processes
* Strong IT technical skills and understanding
* Full UK driving licence



Desired qualifications and experience

* Fully qualified accountant (AAT, ACCA, ICAEW or CIMA)
* Experience in implementing ERP systems such as Unit4/Agresso, Microsoft, SAP, Sage 200, Netsuite and Oracle, whether as an external consultant or from the customer side
* Practical experience in all of the following business areas:
* Management and financial accounting
* Project management, project accounting, project billing
* Multi-currency reporting, multi-company accounting and consolidation
* Purchasing, stock accounting and ordering
* Strong understanding of basic business



Personal characteristics:

* Self-motivated with the ability to motivate themselves and others
* Service-minded and solution-focused
* Responsible and reliable
* Accurate and structured
* Ability to work both independently and in teams
* Flexibility and the willingness to learn
* Excellent communication and presentation skills
* Fluent written and spoken business English



Benefits and terms

* Full-time role
* Flexible working policy
* Opportunity to join an ambitious scale-up organisation
* Health insurance following successful completion of the probationary period
* 26 days holiday, rising by 1 day per 2 years' service (up to a maximum of 5 extra days), not including bank holidays
* An excellent culture with regular paid-for social events

Role: Finance Operations Manager
Location: London and remote (hybrid working)
Type: Permanent
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 + bonus and benefits

Our exceptional market-leading client is looking for an experienced Finance Operations Manager to join their fantastic organisation.
You will be responsible for the operational delivery of distributions to all external customers, whilst having a clear understanding of the impact and relation to the financial reporting for the organisation.

You will oversee all customer distributions whilst reporting back to Finance Director and conducting attentive quality assurance (QA) checks on all customer distributions. You will deputise for FD when required on bi-monthly CODA performance with stakeholders and build QA deadlines and follow up on Finance tasks that affect distribution to ensure prompt delivery

Experience and Qualifications
* Professionally qualified Accountant with significant post-qualification experience
* Experience in senior finance operation roles, ideally also with some auditing background
* Experience working in a complex environment, including implementing strong processes and controls.
* Excellent Stakeholder Management Skills.
* Experience in a Service Provider role.

If you possess the above skills and would like to be considered for this amazing opportunity - please apply before 5pm on Friday 16th September

n exciting opportunity has arrived for a M3 Systems Analyst to join an established manufacturing company who are looking to bring the individual on board as soon as possible. Interviews can be arranged at short notice so please don't hesitate to register your interest.



Role & Responsibilities

* Responsible for creating, updating, implementing and supporting Logistics processes and instructions
* Education and training of colleagues in M3 and associated applications
* Create and maintaining items, structure and preparations in M3 and functional support for the Planners and the planning of customer/work orders and projects in M3.

Skills & Qualifications

* M3 experience
* Training & support experience
* Functional capabilities

Benefits

* Hybrid working
* Competitive salary
* Growth potential



Email: a.burahee@washingtonfrank.com

Telephone: 0203 909 9524

Job purpose



To be part of the team that supports the client's Finance Systems and users in a fast-paced and demanding environment:



* To maintain the integrity, access and security of Finance Systems and key financial data
* Provide support through the provision of Finance Systems expertise, and the resolution of queries begins processed through the Helpdesk
* To maintain system training materials and support documentation



Duties and responsibilities



* Provide excellent customer service in all aspects, in person, via phone, chat or email
* Provide Helpdesk support through gaining excellent knowledge of Finance Systems to enable effective liaison with users and the timely resolution of queries
* Diagnose and resolve software issues of support calls
* Identify and escalate situations requiring urgent attention
* Follow up with users to ensure complete resolution of issues
* Follow standard help desk procedures
* Work with other In-house development / infrastructure teams
* Maintain system documentation to reflect change in processes / functionality following upgrades
* Provide training in the use of Financial Systems
* To be involved in regression testing for annual upgrades
* Develop and maintain customised management reports as required
* Assist in the design, development, testing and implementation of changes / automation of Financial processes and reporting
* Ensure change documentation is complete and fully approved; processed and recorded in a controlled and auditable manner

Qualifications & Requirements



Requirements include:



* Good understanding of Accounting and Financial principles/practices
* Functional knowledge and experience of Microsoft Great Plains

* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel

* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, ensuring attention to detail

* Highly organised and able to manage own time effectively to meet deadlines

* Shows drive, energy and determination to achieve results
* Communicates effectively at all levels





Location



IT Department: Durham



Accounts Offices: Kenilworth/Warwick/York/Isle of Man

Job purpose



To be part of the team that supports the client's Finance Systems and users in a fast-paced and demanding environment:



* To maintain the integrity, access and security of Finance Systems and key financial data
* Provide support through the provision of Finance Systems expertise, and the resolution of queries begins processed through the Helpdesk
* To maintain system training materials and support documentation



Duties and responsibilities



* Provide excellent customer service in all aspects, in person, via phone, chat or email
* Provide Helpdesk support through gaining excellent knowledge of Finance Systems to enable effective liaison with users and the timely resolution of queries
* Diagnose and resolve software issues of support calls
* Identify and escalate situations requiring urgent attention
* Follow up with users to ensure complete resolution of issues
* Follow standard help desk procedures
* Work with other In-house development / infrastructure teams
* Maintain system documentation to reflect change in processes / functionality following upgrades
* Provide training in the use of Financial Systems
* To be involved in regression testing for annual upgrades
* Develop and maintain customised management reports as required
* Assist in the design, development, testing and implementation of changes / automation of Financial processes and reporting
* Ensure change documentation is complete and fully approved; processed and recorded in a controlled and auditable manner

Qualifications & Requirements



Requirements include:



* Good understanding of Accounting and Financial principles/practices

* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel

* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, ensuring attention to detail

* Highly organised and able to manage own time effectively to meet deadlines

* Shows drive, energy and determination to achieve results
* Communicates effectively at all levels





Location



IT Department: Durham



Accounts Offices: Kenilworth/Warwick/York/Isle of Man

Job Description



My client is one of the leading multinational freight-forwarding companies in the world with offices in over 70 countries worldwide. They are currently looking for a Deputy Manager / Assistant Manager in specialized in SAP FICO section to help oversee their projects and department and provide professional advice for process re-engineering.

Responsibilities:

* To be in charge of project planning and controlling on different accounting systems implementation projects.
* To supervise/coach/advise colleagues within the Financial Systems Section in carrying out systems analysis, design, and implementation tasks.
* Managing and work with cross-functional teams, IT development teams and management teams/key users within the business.
* To monitor and supervise the day-to-day SAP systems administration activities.
* To act as an active member on the re-engineering and system enhancement activities.
* To provide useful support and assistance to users whenever necessary.

Requirements:

* University degree in Accounting, Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline
* Over 3 years of solid hands-on experience on SAP FI/CO module. Less experience will be considered as Assistant Manager.
* Proficiency in Excel VBA Marco Programming, MS Access, MS SQL, and Microsoft Power BI will be a plus.
* Experience with SAP functional consulting environment, Financial data modelling and visualisation is an advantage.
* Mature, self-motivated, deadline-driven, and comfortable working under pressure.
* Good command in spoken/written Chinese and English, and Mandarin.
* Excellent project management, interpersonal and communication skills

For those that are interested, please do not hesitate to apply now! Please send your resume in word format to r.leow@washingtonfrank.com or call +852 3008 3863 for further information or any enquiries.

Job Description

Our client is one of the leading manufacturing firms that is listed in Hong Kong since the 90s. Due to business expansion, they are looking for a Senior IT Application Manager to support their business activities.

Role & Responsibilities

* Perform group IT roles, directing local IT teams to support services and system functionality upgrades with system vendors for users.
* Act as a IT application manager of manufacturing business related systems such as PLM, MES, ERP and APS system.
* Design database structure and extract data for business analysis.
* Responsible for establishing KPIs with users and extracting data from the system to automate KPI calculations.
* Initial IT projects to study the feasibility and impact on business, drive digitalization journey with users and Group CIO.
* Liaise with key users, stakeholders and vendors for system implementation and analysis the ROI.
* Assist on resources allocation and control IT budget.

Skills & Qualifications

* Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information System or equivalent.
* Minimum 5-8 years of working experiences on information technology systems application management.
* Proficiency in SQL and related database knowledge.
* Familiar with manufacturing related systems such as PLM, MES, ERP and APS systems.
* Willing to take up challenges and learn new technologies as well as accessing current system solutions to make enhancements on the company operations from time to time.
* Experiences on data analysis and knowledge would be a definite advantage.
* Good command of both spoken and written English and Cantonese.

Attractive remuneration and excellent benefits will be offered to the qualified candidates. For those that are interested, please do not hesitate to apply now! Please send your resume in word format to r.leow@washingtonfrank.com or call +852 3008 3863 for further information or any enquiry.

Your opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated IT SAP Basis Specialist. The candidate will be part of the IT Department and will

be involved into provision of ordinary and evolutionary maintenance services as well as support for the implementation of new projects.





How you will contribute

* Monitoring the overall system landscape, mostly based on Cloud infrastructure, so to grant smooth operations, anticipate issues and suggest actions
* Analyzing EWA reports, system logs, performance metrics, dumps and recommend/implement improvements
* Collaborating with SAP HEC and other Cloud providers in the management of the systems, planning and monitoring the installation of OS/DB patches and system uplifts
* Monitoring SAP environments and ensure that SAP systems are operating smoothly, in particular:

- understanding short-term and long-term technical requirements

- configuring and operating SAP Transport Management System (TMS) to manage objects development and customization settings across SAP system landscape

- monitoring the maintenance activities on SAP components such as FMS, EWM, PI/PO, BW, BPC, BOBJ, BODS on HANA-DB and ASE-DB

* Supporting PO interfaces to non-SAP systems and to 3rd party tools used in the SAP environment





Who you are

* Degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Economics /Management
* At least 2 years of experience in similar role
* Good understanding of SAP Netweaver technologies (Java and ABAP stacks)
* Good understanding of technical integration between SAP Applications (FMS, EWM, PI/PO, BW, BPC, BOBJ, BODS) and other 3rd party systems via IDoc's, SCM Core Interface, RFC, JCo, JDBC/ODBC connections, WebServices, FTP/SFTP file transfers, NFS/CIFS shares
* Experience with server sizing and capacity planning in an SAP environment on Cloud infrastructure (SAPS, vCPUs, RAM and file system sizing)
* Having performed SAP system client copies/system refreshes is a must
* Working knowledge of Linux, ASE-DB and Microsoft SQL Server, (e.g., Unix shell scripting, space management, backup and recovery procedures, SQL tuning) is a plus
* Previous experience in data archiving or document management with SAP applications is a plus
* Having joined projects on SAP Support Packages/Release Upgrade is a plus
* Good knowledge of Business English (spoken and written)
* Dynamism, curiosity and keen to technology innovation
* Team working and positive mindset
* Organized with assigned tasks and focused on in-time delivery
* Resilience and capacity to bear the stress
* Problem solving

Job Description

An exciting new position has now become available with an in-house firm that is based in Hong Kong! Due to fast expansion, my client is seeking for a Business Analyst in HRIS system to support their business activities.

Role & Responsibilities

* Work closely with internal IT department and external vendors
* Provide support on end user enquiries and system daily system support on end user enquiries
*

Involve in project-based implementation and enhancements to ensure the optimal efficiency of system
*

Prepare training materials, user guide and lead internal user training
* Gather and analyze users' requirements to propose feasible and practical solutions and prepare for system design as well as system testing

Skills & Qualifications

* Degree in Human Resources, Information System / Computer Science or other relevant disciplines
* Experienced in IT project implementation / support
* Good understanding of any HRIS system is a definite advantage
* Knowledge in one of the key business areas such as HR & Admin, Automation, Digitalization System Integration is highly preferred
* Good command in both written and spoken English and Mandarin

Salary is negotiable. This position is fresh to the market and is a great opportunity for those that is looking for great career advancement. If you are interested and qualified, send your resume to r.leow@washingtonfrank.com or call me +85230083863.