Finance Systems Specialist - Microsoft Dynamics - 12 Month FTC
* Full-time
* Office: Edinburgh
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline
Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid, and Brussels. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.
Reporting to our Finance Systems Manager, you will be the SME for Process Improvements, Automations and Finance Systems continuity, whilst being the first escalation point for BAU incidents where limitations arise within the Finance Systems Administration remit. You will be the owner of the Power Platforms suite ensuring all Power Automate flows are maintained and documented as well as critically monitoring the latter for any systems updates made by Microsoft directly, so to ensure business continuity and data security throughout.
Key Responsibilities:
* As part of a small team, you’ll be responsible for supporting both our UK and international entities proposing and implementing process improvements and change control across D365 F&O functionality.
* Maintaining our ERP (D365) system supporting its continuing build and integration and supporting Finance teams in understanding the challenges they face and solving them.
* Working closely with the data, security, privacy and infrastructure teams, to ensure systems continuity, review processes and possible enhancements, and aiding collaboration cross function for project work.
* Support and coordinate the delivery and testing of system updates.
* Work autonomously towards established objectives whilst also contributing to long term planning to meet evolving needs of users or the company.
* An innovative “thinking outside the box” attitude towards process improvement, including the use of automations and AI/Machine Learning technologies.
Minimum Requirements:
* Experience with a Microsoft Dynamics ERP essential.
* Strong knowledge of the Financial Reporter application and its management, experienced in PowerBi user configuration and incident management.
* Knowledge of the Microsoft infrastructure and data entities in order to support our PowerBi connectivity to our ERP.
* Strong experience and knowledge of Power Automate and Azure.
* Knowledge of Visual Studio, SQL scripts, virtual environments as well as RDP standards knowledge, and the purpose of Build, Dev and Sandbox machines.
* Flexibility to work out of hours and weekends when required due to a platform update or maintenance to systems which cannot be carried out during business hours. (You get this time back)
* Ownership of our ERP’s data copy and creation of BACPAC file formats for external Audit.
* Ability to independently perform a system maintenance operation on our PRODUCTION/LIVE D365 environment ensuring no downtime is experienced to end users during working hours.
* Proactive ownership and maintenance of invoices relevant to finance systems licensing spend.
* Organise and deliver training of new enhanced features/new processes/automations delivered and of any new systems acquired within the Finance Systems team.
* Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
* Excellent written and oral skills.
‘Nice to have’ experience:
* Demonstrable Dynamics Finance and Operations specific platform configuration experience.
* Strong understanding of accounting processes.
* Good knowledge of the evergreen Microsoft approach for platform updates.
* Ability to stop updates where necessary and re-deploy when required.
* Demonstrable experience with Expense and Time sheeting systems such as Dovico and Concur.
* Demonstrable experience with invoice scanning software, such as V1.
Why should you jump on board?
We pay special attention to learning and development and organise quarterly company learning days as well as offering a learning budget that can be put towards resources of your choice. We will cover the costs of your professional subscriptions and give you access to our very own learning platform.
At Trainline, we care about the wellness of our employees. We host puppy therapy sessions, in-office yoga and run Mental Health First Aider training courses as well as having an Employee Assistance Program as one of our many company benefits.
We regularly throw fun social events such as pub quizzes, karaoke nights and our large-scale Summer and Winter Festivals every year. Additionally, we love hosting meetups in our amazing event spaces and having the opportunity to support internal and external community groups.
We also hold companywide hackathons and our annual Trainline Tech Summit, which provides Trainliners with an opportunity to stand up and share their story, learnings, or new skills with their colleagues in a safe environment.
Our flexi-first approach
We believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible workforce. Our flexi-first approach outlines our commitment to a hybrid way of working and our expectations of Trainliners. A key part of what makes Trainline special is our people and the value we get from the buzz and energy of our workplaces, and that’s why we’re proud to offer the best of both worlds. In practice this means in–office attendance at least 40% of the time over a 12-week period for all Trainliners. These in-office days are typically team led to help us connect, collaborate and create together.
Our Values
Think Big - We're building the future of rail
Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
Do Good - We make a positive impact
Travel Together - We're one team
Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check out what our employees say about us on Glassdoor? You can also find out more information by following us on LinkedIn or our 'Life at Trainline' Instagram account.
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.
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