Benefit Payment and Accounting System Advisor
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow/Dundee, is currently looking to recruit an Interim Benefit Payment and Accounting System Advisor for a 12 month contract with possible extension on a rate of £558.50/day (Inside IR35). This role is hybrid with 21 hours per week, with 3 full days work over Monday to Friday, and requires 1 or 2 days in the office each week.
Responsibilities:
– Act as key Finance Subject Matter Expert throughout the Project lifecycle.
– Represent Finance at all relevant Governance forums and keep the Finance teams informed of project progress.
– Define and explain Finance business requirements.
– Review and contribute to Options appraisal with Finance impacts.
– Steer the proposed design of the new Payment and Accounting solution to protect Finance interests; likely to require attendance at multiple workshops.
– Provide quality assurance over test strategy and lead testing of payment and accounting processes.
– Manage any Risks and Issues that arise during project life cycles and ensure impacted Finance stakeholders engaged, and appropriate mitigating actions agreed.
– Provide quality assurance over change management communications,
– Provide hyper-care support to stabilise processes after going live before handing over to Live Service to maintain.
Essential Skills:
– Professionally qualified accountant – CCAB/CIMA/CA professional accountancy body or equivalent with up-to-date CPD
– Experience of leading Finance Programmes/Projects or acting as Finance Subject Matter Expert on major finance/payment systems change programmes
– Experience of leading finance/payment processes and control design and ensuring legal/fiscal/Audit compliance requirements are met
– Must be credible with staff, creating conditions to build confident and effective teams that empower, value, develop and motivate people
– Proven ability to work on your own initiative, to deliver high quality outcomes and outputs and to meet deadlines whilst managing competing pressures.
– Strong communication and leadership skills, both written and verbal, with a proven ability to explain financial or technical information effectively to non-finance/non-technical stakeholders and to influence change.
Desirable Skills:
– Experience of managing finance/payment projects in a dynamic/ Agile environment.
– Knowledge of Scottish Government financial systems, processes, policies and procedures.
– Change Management – experience in impacting and communicating changes to business processes.
– Awareness of GDPR/ Data privacy legislation.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Act as key Finance Subject Matter Expert throughout the Project lifecycle.
– Represent Finance at all relevant Governance forums and keep the Finance teams informed of project progress.
– Define and explain Finance business requirements.
– Review and contribute to Options appraisal with Finance impacts.
– Steer the proposed design of the new Payment and Accounting solution to protect Finance interests; likely to require attendance at multiple workshops.
– Provide quality assurance over test strategy and lead testing of payment and accounting processes.
– Manage any Risks and Issues that arise during project life cycles and ensure impacted Finance stakeholders engaged, and appropriate mitigating actions agreed.
– Provide quality assurance over change management communications,
– Provide hyper-care support to stabilise processes after going live before handing over to Live Service to maintain.
Essential Skills:
– Professionally qualified accountant – CCAB/CIMA/CA professional accountancy body or equivalent with up-to-date CPD
– Experience of leading Finance Programmes/Projects or acting as Finance Subject Matter Expert on major finance/payment systems change programmes
– Experience of leading finance/payment processes and control design and ensuring legal/fiscal/Audit compliance requirements are met
– Must be credible with staff, creating conditions to build confident and effective teams that empower, value, develop and motivate people
– Proven ability to work on your own initiative, to deliver high quality outcomes and outputs and to meet deadlines whilst managing competing pressures.
– Strong communication and leadership skills, both written and verbal, with a proven ability to explain financial or technical information effectively to non-finance/non-technical stakeholders and to influence change.
Desirable Skills:
– Experience of managing finance/payment projects in a dynamic/ Agile environment.
– Knowledge of Scottish Government financial systems, processes, policies and procedures.
– Change Management – experience in impacting and communicating changes to business processes.
– Awareness of GDPR/ Data privacy legislation.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
