Finance Manager (Oracle Cloud and EPM)

Role Purpose

• To support the Team Leader – Oracle Cloud Support (Financial Systems Team) in providing system support for budget monitoring and budget development, (EPM) and the Financial systems maintenance (ERP) including user setup, (ERP & EPM) system queries via the call logging portal, including advice and guidance to Finance Business Partners across the council.
• To maintain and develop financial systems – including ensuring financial systems reflect Council structures to support accountability and ownership of the Council’s budgets and that systems are in place to support financial reporting to Cabinet and Statutory reporting.
• To support the maintenance of the EPM, AP, AR, P2P system set up and liaise with Financial Systems Leads for these areas to ensure that users are set up with the correct access.

• To support the Team Leader – Oracle Cloud Support in aligning the Council’s financial systems with the management structure (as provided by Finance Business Partners and Financial Planning) for the authority to ensure ownership and accountability is maintained against the Council’s budgets and financial activity.
• To support the Team Leader – Oracle Cloud Support in undertaking an review exercises to ensure that the users in EPM & ERP are correctly set up, with reporting lines and levels of access and authority reflecting the Councils requirements, schemes of delegation and segregation of duties.
• To support the maintenance of the financial system, including updating, creating and end dating codes in the financial system in conjunction with service areas requests, to support the statutory requirement for reporting. To undertake this, with the SERCOP rules in mind and following approval processes for new codes.
• To take responsibility as directed for reconciling the Council’s staffing establishment and ensuring that this is fully reflected within the Council’s financial systems and aligns to the appropriate budget holders. (EPM support task).
• To support the Team Leader – Oracle Cloud Support in aligning the Council’s financial systems with the management structure (as provided by Finance Business Partners and Financial Planning) for the authority to ensure ownership and accountability is maintained against the Council’s budgets and financial activity.
• To support the Team Leader – Oracle Cloud Support in undertaking an review exercises to ensure that the users in EPM & ERP are correctly set up, with reporting lines and levels of access and authority reflecting the Councils requirements, schemes of delegation and segregation of duties.
• To support the maintenance of the financial system, including updating, creating and end dating codes in the financial system in conjunction with service areas requests, to support the statutory requirement for reporting. To undertake this, with the SERCOP rules in mind and following approval processes for new codes.
• To take responsibility as directed for reconciling the Council’s staffing establishment and ensuring that this is fully reflected within the Council’s financial systems and aligns to the appropriate budget holders. (EPM support task).

• Demonstratable local government finance experience
• Experience of using based financial systems within a large complex organisation.
• Passed first year of a full professional CCAB accounting qualification and / or experience requirements as set out below.
• AAT fully qualified or equivalent and / or experience requirements as set out below
• Willing to work flexibly