Company Industry: Food & Beverage
Job Title: Head of Finance Systems
Location: London – 4 days per week in the office
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary: Up To £80,000 depending on experience
Key Responsibilities
- Take responsibility for the development and optimisation of the Finance systems landscape, with NetSuite as the core ERP.
- Maintain a clear Finance Systems & Data roadmap in partnership with the Interim Data Analytics & Systems Director and Finance Director.
- Build and maintain reliable Finance reporting tables, data models and controlled SQL-based logic.
- Reduce reliance on repeated NetSuite exports, large Excel models and manually maintained reporting.
- Identify and automate manual and repetitive Finance processes across transaction processing, reconciliations, reporting and close-related activities.
- Build automated exception reporting to identify differences, missing data and unexpected transactions.
- Support faster and more controlled month-end and year-end processes.
- Use SQL, APIs, data pipelines and other appropriate tools to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy.
- Work with Finance and IT to strengthen governance around Finance systems, master data, user access and permissions.
- Support the integrity of key structures including the chart of accounts, entities, suppliers, customers, locations, departments and reporting dimensions.
- Establish clear requirements, testing and user acceptance processes for material system and data changes.
- Maintain appropriate documentation, audit trails and version control across systems, integrations and reporting logic.
- Act as the principal systems and data partner to the Finance Director and wider Finance team.
- Work closely with Accounting, FP&A, Operations, Supply Chain, IT and Data & Analytics.
Requirements
- Strong experience across Finance systems, Finance technology, financial data or a closely related discipline.
- Deep understanding of how operational transactions become accounting entries, financial statements and management reporting.
- Strong ERP experience, ideally with NetSuite, or comparable platforms such as Oracle, Workday or SAP.
- Experience across Finance processes including AP, AR, payments, payroll, procurement, treasury, FP&A and reporting.
- Strong SQL capability, with the ability to independently query, validate and reconcile financial data.
- Working knowledge of Power BI or similar BI tools.
- Experience with APIs, integrations, data pipelines and modern data architecture.
- Experience automating manual Finance or accounting processes and improving reconciliations and transaction-to-GL flows.
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