Finance Systems Manager (12 month Fixed Term Contract)

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About us:
Allwyn UK is part of Allwyn Entertainment Group - a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, and Italy. In 2022, Allwyn was selected in a Government tender as the Preferred Applicant to operate the UK's National Lottery from February 2024.
Over the next two years we are embarking on a largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to Good Causes. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities exist for people from within and outside the betting and gaming industry to join us play a part in giving the National Lottery a fresh start.
Role Purpose:
Reporting to the Financial Controller, responsible for leading the Finance system support across the Finance department, operating as part of the Financial Control team.
To champion control in finance systems and processes, maintaining appropriate segregation of duties and minimising risk
Critical role in supporting Finance as it delivers its new SAP instance, and thereafter as the department undertakes transformation to harness and realise process and system improvements
To act as liaison between finance end users and IT development team to ensure existing defects and new developments are properly documented and delivered.
Team Description
The Finance department ensures the business is financially sound, has robust accounting and reporting processes, and delivers financial targets including profitability and returns to Good Causes.
The Finance Systems team supports colleagues across the Finance function, ensuring the SAP (and ancillary) systems for the Finance team are maintained and developed:
Lead the development and then delivery of the finance systems roadmap
Acts as the primary interface between the finance function and the IT/technology teams
System administrator for Concur and SAP BPC
Driving and project managing enhancement projects across the finance systems to improve controls, efficiency and effectiveness
Role Responsibilities:
Ownership of all finance modules in SAP and interfaces with other SAP modules and business systems
System administration including reviewing and approving access to SAP finance roles, maintenance of GL
Ownership of segregation of duties in SAP, including SAP GRC reviews, preparation of mitigation reports for the financial controller and liaison with statutory auditors
Monitoring SAP workflow and assisting business with any issues encountered in P2P process
Ownership of finance backlog and prioritisation
Liaison between finance users and IT dev team, including writing of requirements for any system enhancements/new builds
Project management of systems enhancements and process improvements
1st line testing of newly implemented system enhancements
Training finance users and preparing training documentation
Maintained detailed knowledge of Lottery data sources and how it is appropriate to use them.
Supporting Trust systems changes; as required to support full system changeover of throughout Licence to support new game and initiative development
Supporting the monthly financial close process to ensure the queries on data provision are resolved enabling all activities are completed in accordance with agreed deliverables
Assisting the wider Financial Control function with any ad hoc projects
Key Skills and Experience:
ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified is desirable but qualified by experience or alternative qualification considered as an alternative
ERP applications (SAP essential) with recent experience of system implementations
Prior involvement in process improvement projects and systems improvement
Visio or other process mapping tools
Excellent communication skills and confidence to provide constructive challenge where necessary
Must be self-motivated and self starting with ability to multi-task and effectively manage own workload,
Strives for excellence and continuous improvement
Here is our list of benefits
34 days paid leave (This includes bank holidays)
2 x Life Days
4 x Salary of Life Insurance
Pension: We'll contribute 8.5%
BUPA
Income Protection
As part of our onboarding processes, all successful candidates will need to complete both a Pre-Employment Screening process and a Fit & Proper check by the Gambling Commission. These checks include a DBS (an enhanced check, which shows convictions and conditional cautions), credit and social media checks. As part of our application process, you will be asked to identify in advance if you have spent or unspent convictions that we need to be aware of.
Should you not disclose convictions at the application stage, not pass the Fit & Proper Check process or not complete your Pre-Employment Screening then unfortunately you may not pass our probation process.
All data will be handled in accordance with our data policies and treated with utmost confidentiality.
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