Financial Systems Accountant

Part-time applications would be considered for a minimum of 25 hours a week over 5 days) 

The University of Southampton’s mission is to change the world for the better. As a world-leading, research-intensive university, with a strong and high-quality educational offering, it is renowned for its innovation and enterprise and sits within the top 1% of universities worldwide. 

The roles

The Finance Systems and Project Team is undertaking a major ERP change programme and we need some additional colleagues who are passionate about technical solutions to help us keep our day to day services running smoothly whilst we achieve our long term ambitions.  We are looking for people who will:

• Be part of a highly productive technical team through effective planning, workload management and delivery reporting.
• Support the implementation of planned system developments and day to day maintenance, to build continuous improvement.  
• Work collaboratively within the Finance Directorate, but also engage with internal stakeholders across the University to ensure successful project delivery.
• Be keen to develop your own knowledge and share that best practise.

About you

You’ll have a proven track record of working in the implementation, maintenance and development of ERP financial systems, with experience in:

• Day to day data integrity reconciliation and administration, 
• Reviewing and developing MS SQL scripts to extend functionality or resolve data issues, 
• Interface management and reconciliation, 
• Database schema structures and systems architecture, 
• Supporting the rollout of new software modules/functionality, 
• Leading elements of the upgrade process,
• Developing proprietary reporting functionality

Working experience of Unit4 ERP would be preferred.

You will be able to clearly demonstrate excellent communication and project management skills, and enjoy working as part of a busy team.   Efficiently organising your work activities and engaging with stakeholders.  

Working here

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are pro-active in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work.

We welcome applications from candidates who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment. Committed to supporting our staff and students, we are open to a flexible working approach. We give full consideration to applicants that wish to work flexibly or have taken a career break.  We have adopted a hybrid working model combining working from home with regular time on campus.

As well as additional benefits, such as a generous holiday allowance of 30 days annual leave, plus a further 6 university closure days and 8 UK bank holidays.  We’ll support your long-term future with access to a pension scheme, subsidised health and fitness facilities and a range of discounts. 

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