Financial Systems Manager

SUMMARY:
Financial Systems Manager

POSITION INFO:

• Provide financial systems advice to support

• Establish best practices for financial systems use

• Ensure that these practices are used throughout the organization and provide training on Financial systems for all users;

• Represent the Finance portfolio at Executive and Operational committee meetings and present monthly Finance portfolio results and performance relevant to matters of financial systems;

• Identify new administration tasks required when systems are implemented or upgraded and ensure direct reports are trained in new tasks;

• Ensure all interfaces between financial systems and other systems are appropriate and optimal and run as intended;

• Manage relationships with users and technical support staff and external consultants;

• Develop policies and procedures that govern financial system support, administration, enhancements and reporting;Lead and drive business requirement analysis, project management and financial systems testing;

• Lead business requirements analysis, project management and financial systems testing

• Lead and mentor finance systems team 

REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance with post graduate certificates in project management, database design, database implementation, ERP specific administration OR A bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or IT related degree with post graduate certificates in financial management and project management;
• Internal / External Audit experience and fifteen years post-article experience including:
  • Three years management level experience in a financial department
  • Two years working experience as domain specialist or system administrator of financial ERP, imaging, workflow and reporting applications.
  • Working experience on Oracle and PeopleSoft will be advantageous
  • Two years working experience on advanced level of Microsoft suite
  • Two years’ experience managing financial system projects or similar projects
• Very good knowledge of relational database design principals;
• Good programming knowledge i.e. VBA, html, SQL;
• Excellent knowledge of how policies, business processes and practices impact system and control environment;
• Advanced knowledge of the functionality of the systems, the interdependencies and the interfaces;

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