During the New Finance System initial implementation (due to complete by Q1 2025)

Working with external consultants and internal business finance teams to assist with the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Working with existing group businesses to map various current COAs to new Group COA being implemented with Business Central.
Act as a super user within the business to help each business implement Business Central

Ongoing role:

Design, analyze and review all financial systems, practices, and policies to ensure these are efficient and effective within our D365 system.
Act as the finance lead for all system enhancements, supporting configuration changes and reviewing new features.
Analyze all financial documents and related GL postings to ensure confidence in the financial processing of our Business Central system.
Administer, manage, maintain, and update all system configuration and administrative settings across all BC entities.
Review and enforce governance and controls across all finance systems and process.
Posting manual journals - review the impact on reporting and work with systems team to ensure this is automated as much as possible to avoid inconsistencies in the system. Ensure a log is kept for manual entries that require reconciliation to ensure we keep all ledgers clean.
Corrective / cancelling invoices, review the process to follow and treatment of entries surrounding these, monitor and manage within the system.
Monitor and manage all system configuration in
BC and work with systems team / external consultants as needed to ensure system integrity.
Design and refine our specific BC Finance month end processes in D365 streamlining all activities and ensuring team alignment and system checks in place to ensure closure on time:
Consider all period end activities, map and ensure clear process within the system to ensure transparency for whole department.

Systems Accountant