Job description
Finance System - Business Risk & Incident Manager
Job Req ID: 12269
Posting Date: 06-Mar-2023
Function: Finance
Location:
1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Job Title: Finance System – Business Risk & Incident Manager
Introducing the Finance Systems Team
We are creating a new team, under Group FP&A, to manage in life finance systems. This includes the finance systems roadmap, change, and incident management. Working in partnership with their Digital colleagues, and understanding the requirements of finance across Group, this team will drive forward our finance systems evolution.
We are creating a new team, under Group FP&A, to manage in life finance systems. This includes the finance systems roadmap, change, and incident management. Working in partnership with their Digital colleagues, and understanding the requirements of finance across Group, this team will drive forward our finance systems evolution.
The new finance systems team will take on the baton follow the excellent work from the MFB team in delivery of SAP, moving from transformational change, to in life management.
We are looking to create a team of enthusiastic finance systems leaders. If you have the experience and passion to join the team, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking to create a team of enthusiastic finance systems leaders. If you have the experience and passion to join the team, we would love to hear from you.
About this role
Following implementation of SAP phase 1 and the imminent implementation of phase 2, we are putting a new team in place between our technical and business users to help resolve system incidents. The role will include delivering activities such as SAP issue management & escalation, stakeholder communication on systems issues, causal analysis and change recommendations. Developing effective relationships with finance users and technical specialists will be critical to the role.
Our overall goal is to ensure that we have on-time, correct and accurate financial reporting to enable the business to make key commercial decisions.
Our overall goal is to ensure that we have on-time, correct and accurate financial reporting to enable the business to make key commercial decisions.
Key responsibilities
- Triage incoming system tickets; perform root cause analysis and ensure that tickets are assigned to the right technical queue
- Track/review open tickets ensuring that resolution is provided within agreed SLA’s
- Propose long term solutions are developed to fix recurring issues
- Lead conversations between technical and non-technical teams to resolve the issues
- Ensure communications to end users on systems issues are timely and informative
- Help people navigate SAP support services
- Work with BT Digital to understand upcoming SAP releases and ensure that business impacts are appropriately planned for
- Ensure proper release management process is followed e.g. BAU, sign offs, communication to teams/users etc
- Identify gaps in our processes and procedures and implement new ones to ensure that our colleagues receive the right level of support and reporting is done on time and to required quality
Key skills required
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills – this is a client facing role, you need to be comfortable talking to technical and non-technical people and have the ability to have difficult conversations
- General finance experience – you will be working with finance teams, to be effective you will need to understand month end reporting processes and general finance reporting procedures
- Reporting finance system knowledge – to perform root cause analysis you need to understand how data gets into and processed by finance systems, how systems interact with each other and how finance reports are produced
- Understanding of Digital change methodologies
- Process design – this is a newly created role, some processes will need to be created, others will need to be re-designed
- ERP exposure – SAP ERP experience
- Qualified or partially qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA or equivalent) or relevant technical experience - desirable
- Project management qualifications - desirable
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Up to 10% on target bonus
- Pension scheme
- Share save scheme
- 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids.
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
BT
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London, United Kingdom
Philip Jansen
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10000+ Employees
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