Senior Finance Analyst

**COMPANY**
Established and extremely sought after organisation to work for

**Role**: Finance Systems Analyst and Senior Finance Systems Analyst

**Salary**: negotiable (Senior role paying circa £40,000 per annum and support role paying circa £30,000 per annum)

**Perks**: Annual leave of 29 days, plus public holidays,?flexible?maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out moreon our career's portal.

**Contract/Hours**: Full-Time - 35 hours per week

**Location**: Homebased with Hybrid working in Watford

**THE JOB**:
Providing advice and expertise regarding the management and maintenance of corporate financial systems, ensuring integrity of data and system controls through efficient process design / management.

**Duties**:

- Providing technical expertise to enable resolution of all levels up to major and complex incidents, in accordance with the ITIL Incident Management methodology within the Finance Systems team achieving Service Levels, records and documentation are maintained.
- Being a technical lead within the specialist area of expertise for finance systems development projects, designing and guiding the implementation of their requirements, ensuring an efficient and supportable implementation, including preparation of documentationand training for Finance, Technology and other users of Finance Systems.
- Developing, monitoring and regularly test, core Finance systems and their service and disaster recovery procedures, including system recovery, liaising with technology colleagues and 3rd party vendors responding immediately or referring to senior managementwhen risks are identified.
- Managing specialist areas of systems and infrastructure and taking corrective action when service levels are threatened or breached. By designing and developing solutions to maintain the capability, availability, security and supportability of FinanceSystems.
- Planning, managing, testing, releasing and implementing significant changes to our Finance Systems provision, ensuring that effective change control is maintained, and records and documentation produced.

**key skills required**:

- Significant practical experience of supporting core financial accounting systems (Open Accounts).
- Managing a varied workload with competing timelines, cost and quality requirements.
- Experience of writing requirement specifications.
- Proven experience of analysing reporting requirements and producing deliverable (dashboards/reports TM1).