Finance Systems Specialist

Location/s: Croydon, UK
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Overview of the role
We are looking for a Finance Digital Partner to join the Finance Systems department to work on implementation projects driving forward our finance technology transformation. The upcoming project for this role will be to implement a global e-invoicing solution. This will require understanding requirements from business subject matter experts, translating these into design documents and testing deliverables through collaboration with Finance, IT and implementation partners. The role will then be responsible for training and collating feedback from end users. 

Other potential future projects in the pipeline are a vendor self-service portal, financial consolidation tool and the implementation of a data analytics tool. 

The role will also be responsible for our Order to Cash solution (High Radius), taking a lead for ownership of technical issue resolution, testing system upgrades and training users. A key focus is upskilling the central team to be able to provide high level support to the wider business. 

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Assisting with the future development, planning and integration of new finance system software as it is rolled out
• Owning the change management process for system development (reviewing the request, creating a design specification, test in different environments and publish updates or make announcements for every release)
• Liaising with regional stakeholders to understand challenges and putting plans in place to address them. E.g. Training gaps vs functionality gaps
• Drive future order to cash strategy to maximise adoption and efficiency
• Stay up to date with release notes for the order to cash product (HighRadius) and assess how we adopt enhancement to realise maximum benefit from the tool
• Provide super user training for the order to cash solution to other team members to upskill the wider team’s knowledge 
• Ensure any issues with the order to cash platform are promptly addressed by the wider team and support where needed
• Interface with Group IT team to resolve system or report issues
• Support adhoc tasks

Candidate specification
Technical Skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (min 2.1) 
• Proven experience of implementing finance technology 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights
• Expert knowledge of the High Radius Order to Cash platform with implementation experience
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Experience in managing change and user adoption for new financial systems

Desirable:

• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL) and data analysis tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
• Familiarity with financial regulations and compliance standards
• Experience in Agile project management and familiarity with tools like Jira

Please note: Closing date for applications will be midnight on Tuesday 19th August

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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