Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has made rapid and significant progress on its improvement journey and it is an exciting time to join Rotherham. Rotherham is ideally located with excellent road and rail links and is ideally placed near the scenic countryside of the Peak District.
We offer an excellent pay and benefits package which includes membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as a range of health and wellbeing and other benefits. This makes working for us an attractive proposition. If you have the ambition to make a real difference and are committed to delivering an excellent service for our residents, we welcome your application.
Financial Services, part of Finance and Customer Services directorate, are currently undergoing a tender process to procure a new financial information management system, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Budget Setting/Monitoring and Reporting.
Reporting to the Principal Finance Officer (Projects-Finance), the 2 post holders will work with current Finance and Procurement staff and other project team members during the implementation of the new financial information management system and will be responsible for requirements scoping and user acceptance testing activities across the various workstreams of the new system. The post holders will focus on specific areas/modules within the system and become the subject matter expert for that area. They will also be required to gain an understanding of the other areas of the system to provide cover as required.
The subject areas/modules are likely to be:
1. General Ledger (capital, treasury, budget monitoring, budget setting, chart of accounts)
2. Procurement
3. Accounts Payable
4. Bank Reconciliation
5. Taxation
6. Financial Reporting - will feature across all areas of the system
The new system implementation project is estimated to last around 2 years, after which, the post holders will work within Finance and Customer Services on other projects, programmes and major change initiatives as required.
Please view the Job/Person profile for a full description of the role and person specification.
Informal discussions with prospective candidates are welcomed.
To find out more about this role and the vision for Rotherham’s Financial Services of the future, please contact Natalia Govorukhina, Head of Corporate Finance – Finance & Customer Services (01709 910147); or Catherine Walker, Finance Project Manager – Financial Services (01709 822027).
To apply please click the Apply Now link below.
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