Finance Systems Accountant

The Financial Control Division (FCD) is a friendly, dynamic, and fast paced team working at the heart of UK Export Finance. We are responsible for ensuring that effective financial control processes are in place. We co-ordinate the Departments estimates, budgets and forecasting processes. We produce accurate and reliable monthly management accounts, annual accounts, and other published financial information. We manage the UKEF bank accounts, purchase ledger, fixed asset registers and the general ledger (CODA). We advise on accounting treatments, own the UKEF accounting policies and are working with others across the organisation and beyond to implement large scale changes in our accounting policy, systems, and processes in order to operationalise IFRS 9 and IFRS 17.

Our friendly and collaborative team is growing to support a larger UK Export Finance. Not only has the demand for UK Export Finance products significantly increased since the pandemic, the business is operating in a more uncertain market than it has seen in a long-time meaning activity on claims and recoveries is also increasing. Its therefore an exciting time to join us as we support a business that is at the heart of delivering government export and trade policy to build the UK economy back stronger. We are also in a unique period of transition as we prepare to implement a new general ledger and purchase to pay system. This will offer the successful applicant a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience, and indeed, help shape and contribute to this transformational change.

The primary purpose of the Finance Systems Accountant is to manage and maintain Aptitude i.e. AICE (Aptitude Insurance Calculation Engine), AAH (Aptitude Accounting Hub) or AC (Aptitude Calculate) but with the opportunity to cross-train with other Finance and Reporting applications.

The roles will work shadow the implementation team and will sit between the Project and BAU teams with the aim to support both the developers and the SMEs, during the configuration and development and till the go-live, at which point they will take charge of the new BAU systems.

The roles will act as the interface between end users, with their queries following testing or requirement gathering/delivery, and the project team.

Responsibilities:

• Work shadows the development team with the aim to document any changes to the configurations.
• Liaise with SMEs and end users to make sure all requirements have been passed to the project team and acted upon.
• Making sure requirements have been delivered and thoroughly tested.
• Document the daily, weekly, and monthly to-be finance systems tasks as they are developed.
• Managing and maintaining:

• Learn how to monitor and manage any interfaces, batches and resolve errors.
• Reconcile systems to ensure accurate and complete data integrations.
• Support the development and maintain the new financial controls, policies and procedures.
• Support the development and maintain the new reporting environment.

Main Activities:

• Manage the controls and user support processes.
• Become an expert in specific E2E processes
• Ensure that Aptitude procedures and processes are fully documented.
• Support the development of Aptitude
• Review Aptitude for data-specific non-compliance and monitor data quality.
• Engage with stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement.

This list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs.

Essential

Qualifications

• Working towards or achieved the following qualifications:
• Level 4 AAT (A)
• Level 4 equivalent part qualified with CCAB, CIMAor equivalent. (A)

Knowledge

• Extensive financial / accounting expertise. (A, I)

Skills/Ability

• High attention to detail, numerate, analytical and have proficient organisational skills. (A, I,)
• Good IT skills including MS Office and medium to advance Excel. (A, I)

Experience

• Previous experience as an Aptitude administrator or similar role. (A, I)