**This vacancy is only available to existing University of Essex staff**
Department
Our Finance Systems team manages the universities finance system, Unit 4. The team lead the day-to-day management of the system as well as the development, training and helpdesk support for Unit 4. Currently the team has 3 team members: Finance Systems Manager (G9), Finance Systems Analyst (G7) and Finance Systems Support Analyst (G5). Key stakeholders are within Finance, Planning and Data Insight, most notably Income and Payments and Accounting teams. The team provides day to day support to all users of Unit 4 across the university.
The Finance Systems Team sits within the Finance, Planning and Data Insight section which is responsible for managing the University's income and expenditure, ensuring we get value for money in all financial activity and that we comply with all statutory and regulatory requests.
Duties of the Role
The Finance Systems Manager leads the Unit 4 systems team, line managing 2 team members. The role is responsible for ensuring our finance system, Unit 4, remains efficient and effective in supporting all university financial activity, this includes managing the technical side of the system and all user support.
This role is critical for the success of the Finance and Cost Pricing Systems Programme which is moving Unit 4 from an on-premises or cloud model to their SaaS (software-as-a-service) model. This programme will be a major transformation, particularly at the University where there are both a high number of customisations and complex integrations.
Skills and qualifications required
The postholder should be a qualified CCAB accountant (or exceptionally an Accounting Technician or equivalent with substantial experience in a financial systems team).
You will be a logical thinker with great technical ability to explore and resolve systems issues.
Experience of accounting and reporting in a complex environment are essential as the role holder will be supporting users undertaking a variety of financial transactions. Unit 4 is our main financial system, so it is critical the post holder has previous experience of his technology.
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