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Senior Financial Systems Analyst
Pearson
Belfast, , Ireland
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Summary of Role:
Custodian of the UK Chart of Accounts ensuring alignment to policy and maintenance of the required hierarchies and validations. Responsible for the Monthly Upload of external ERP results to Oracle EBS. In addition, providing system accountant support at month-end, providing accounting oversight to the Project Accounting module within Oracle and managing cyclical Group Treasury compliance work.
Main activities/responsibilities:
• Validating and approving new Chart of Accounts (COA) requests from the business
• Acting as the Finance owner of local cross-validation rules within the overall global design and working with the relevant parties to maintain and adjust them, as required
• Working on specific projects around COA or Project Accounting optimization
• Investigate and resolve accounting entries which violate cross-validation rules
• Work as part of the COA governance to drive improvements and good discipline
• Review and approve the reconciliation performed between Oracle Project Accounting and the Oracle General Ledger
• Maintenance and review of the internal labour rates in Project Accounting
• Ad Hoc Metadata Maintenance Projects and reconciliations between source systems’ metadata
• Perform monthly upload of external ERP Entity results to Oracle EBS and work with business users to correct issues and validate data
• Investigate and resolve month-end system and accounting queries
• Provide systems accounting support for the Oracle Planning Tool including control over master data and testing of new templates
Qualifications and experience required:
• Graduate degree, Equivalent experience OR Part-qualified accountant with Systems experience
• Ability to develop skills in the following areas (prior knowledge or experience an advantage):
• Finance and accounting, financial management and management accounting
• Flexibility to meet tight and changing deadlines.Resolving system and accounting problems with little-to-no guidance.
• System administration, Database maintenance and Metadata management
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders from Management, Finance and IT to propose solutions to issues, test fixes and project manage change controls to resolution