Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has made rapid and significant progress on its improvement journey and it is an exciting time to join Rotherham. Do you share our commitment to making a difference? Are you an ambitious leader who can help us progress on this journey?
We have positioned the Finance service to ensure that it has the capacity and leadership required to deliver the excellent service that is needed and expected in order to achieve the Council’s future ambitions. This is a great opportunity to work at the heart of the organisation, making a real difference and playing a crucial role shaping the future of the Council.
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 Finance Project Manager, the post holder will work with current Finance and Procurement staff, other project team members and the supplier during the implementation of the new financial information management system and will manage and co-ordinate the staff responsible for configuration, data cleansing, data conversion, interface and unit testing activities of the various aspects of the new system. The post holder will work across all modules of the system and be expected to maintain relevant documentation as required.
The new system implementation project is estimated to last around 2 years, after which, the post holder will work within Finance and Customer Services on other projects, programmes and major change initiatives as required.
If you are an ambitious person with excellent management and leadership qualities, looking for a career enhancing opportunity to make a genuine difference, then we would love to hear from you.
Please view the Job/Person profile for a full description of the role and person specification.
Informal discussions with prospective candidates are welcomed.
Interviews potentially w/c 17th March 2025.
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, Tel: 01709 910147, e-mail: Natalia.Govorukhina@rotherham.gov.uk
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Catherine Walker, Finance Project Manager – Financial Services Tel: 01709 822027, e-mail: catherine.walker@rotherham.gov.uk
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