Finance System Consultant

**Job Title**: Finance System Consultant

**Salary**: £31,000

**The Business**:
Founded by a team of financial experts and ex-MAT professionals, IMP Software has a deep understanding of the challenges facing multi-academy trusts. Our mission is to empower multi-academy trusts with the tools and expertise they need to manage their finances more efficiently and effectively. That's why we're trusted by trusts across the country to provide the only budgeting, forecasting, and reporting software designed specifically for them. From a standing start, in less than 5 years we are now used by most large trusts to help them deliver smarter MAT Finance.

We're proud to be at the forefront of innovation in the MAT finance sector, and we're constantly looking for ways to improve our offering. We work closely with our customers to understand their requirements so that we can tailor our product to their specific needs, and our team is always available to provide expert advice and support.

But at our core, we're more than just a software company. We're a team of passionate and dedicated professionals, committed to helping multi-academy trusts achieve their financial goals. We believe that financial planning should be simpler, more accessible, and more transparent, and we're proud to be leading the way in supporting smarter MAT finance.

At IMP we are very aware that the success of our business will be directly correlated to the quality of the team that we can attract and more importantly retain Due to this core belief, IMP offers fantastic career progression within a business that places huge importance on the happiness of the team, through our respectful, fun() and supportive culture + flexible working, regular socials and funded/encouraged CPD.

**Role Description**:
As a member of the Finance System team, you will be working with customers to migrate, standardise and cleanse the data required from each of the separate systems into IMP’s first module for Finance, IMP Purchasing. Primarily using Excel for the data manipulation. The maturity of the organisation and quality of previous systems will depict how standardised the incoming information is. In addition to technical tasks, you will provide comprehensive support to customers throughout the process, understanding their challenges and defining the best methods to solve this using the software.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Serve as the primary point of contact for clients during the implementation phase
- Review the required approval levels that have been used within each school and in conjunction with IMP’s methodology and the clients’ needs, define the best method to build the required workflows for purchasing approvals
- Support customers through the implementation process including user acceptance testing

**Skills, experience, and attributes**:

- Excellent knowledge of Excel - we have an Excel test as an interview stage for this process
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Teams
- Prior experience of finance system administration/implementation or school finances is advantageous
- You are an enthusiastic individual with a logical approach to problem solving

AAT qual, QBE and Part-qual would be advantageous but not essential

**Benefits**:

- 27 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays (with a buy/sell option up to an additional 5 days)
- Enhance Maternity and Paternity leave
- AXA Health insurance including dental and mental health
- Broadband allowance
- Home office stipend
- Life assurance (4 x basic salary)
- Encouraged and funded CPD