Systems accountant

Job Description

On behalf of The Insolvency Services, we are looking for a System Accountant (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month Contract.

Hybrid - up to 2 days per week in office - flexible locations (Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham)

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency, playing a crucial role in supporting businesses and individuals facing financial difficulty. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment where you can develop your expertise and contribute to the Agency's success.

This exciting role sits within the System Accounting team, who work to support changes to the Agency's finance systems, and to support with live issues or incidents affecting these systems.

This System Accountant role is a great opportunity to help improve and assure financial systems in the Insolvency Service, ensuring that Finance and operational teams can work efficiently and safely to deliver great service to the public.

As a System Accountant, your main responsibilities will be to:
* Lead Finance engagement with a project to replace the current accounting system, as subject-matter expert for Finance systems.
* Work closely with SMEs across Finance to understand current processes and requirements and identify how these are best met by modern accounting and ERP systems.
* Ensure the future design aligns to relevant accounting standards, best practice and Government Functional Standards, protecting the Agency's ability to meet statutory accounting and control obligations and best practice in financial reporting and insight.
* Identify and support opportunities for improvement, including identifying requirements for future financial systems, testing and change impacting.
* Engage with system support teams to understand any live or historical issues which may impact future system design and effectively collate and communicate Finance impacts to stakeholders.
* Report to the Head of System Accounting on matters relating to finance systems and make recommendations for the endorsement of plans relating to these systems.
* Support the Head of System Accounting with demand management, capacity planning and relevant training & guidance across the System Accounting team, the wider Finance function and the Agency as relevant.

Essential:
* Be able to quickly establish strong working relationships with expert colleagues in Finance, IT and operational areas to collaboratively understand, document and overcome issues.
* Understand Government accounting requirements and best practice for Finance systems and processes.
* Confidently and clearly explain technical finance IT functionality and accounting requirements in plain English, both in writing and verbally.
* Prioritise demands and take ownership of workplans.
* Hold a recognised Professional Accountancy qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA.
* Have recent practical experience in finance IT system design, improvement or management.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, TIS guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

DE&I Commitment

TIS guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".