About the job

Job summary

Would you like to be a Systems Accountant? Do you enjoy strategic and tactical decision making? Do you like to influence, negotiate and work collaboratively to promote innovation?

Job Summary

As a Systems Accountant, you are expected to provide ongoing upgrades, systems maintenance and process improvement work. 

 

This role will work closely with Finance, IT and other business functions to develop robust financial processes with a particular emphasis on developing, implementing and overseeing a transition to self-service reporting and dashboards.

Finance, Planning and Performance Directorate Overview

As a directorate, FPP are responsible for the planning, reporting and financial wellbeing of CCS. This includes:

• budgets and financial reporting

• strategy and business planning

• supplier and project assurance

• performance reporting

• risk management

The Finance team develop and manage all financial reporting. We work closely with different departments to develop budgets, projections and business plans related to money and finances.

The Planning Performance and Risk team develops our business plan, tracks its implementation, measures business success and holds the business to account. The team is responsible for increasing the management capability of corporate risk through review and assurance.

Team Summary

This fantastic opportunity will enable you to be at the forefront of a small and innovative team looking to provide the top value from our internal ERP provided by Workday and Planning. Supporting the wider Finance team and the rest of the CCS business, maintaining and developing the systems, writing reports and dashboards.

 

The Finance team of c30 FTE covers three main areas: Operational Finance, Finance Business Partnering (FBP) and Commercial Finance. This role sits in the Operational Finance team but has to be able to work closely within the Finance team and the wider Finance Planning and Performance Directorate.

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing expert advice regarding systems and technology to internal stakeholders

• Heading financial systems’ user support, including developing and designing systems’ training materials and initiatives to upskill users

• Taking charge for the overall processes underpinning the maintenance of user accounts and permissions, ensuring requests are correctly authorised and adhering to GDPR guidance as issued by Information Assurance specialists in Government Security

• Leading the process of system improvement identification and the creation of solutions, representing finance systems across the organisation

• Reviewing problem statements and design solutions. Working with stakeholders to implement solutions, including design and delivery of training packages, reports and dashboards

• Overseeing all aspects of financial systems implementation and improvement, such as requirement setting with external suppliers

• The post holder will be required to follow relevant government functional standards and other related requirements and guidance

Person specification

Essential Criteria (To be assessed at application stage):

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• Strong technical finance and accounting skills

• Experience of understanding, handling and assessing complex  financial processes

• Experience of working effectively with multiple stakeholders with varying levels of financial knowledge

• Demonstrates a clear comprehension of Project techniques and managing change

• Experience of building reports and dashboards to meet business requirements

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of Workday and Adaptive Planning

In the event of a high number of applications, the desirable criteria will be used as a second sift.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,575, Crown Commercial Service contributes £11,808 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Selection Process

Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift will commence WC 27th May and interviews will be held 5th, 6th & 7th of June either at one of our offices or via video with interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)

To find out more about our recruitment process please click here

Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.