Financial Systems Manager in New Town

Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required. We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them. Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Financial Systems Manager. This is a full time, permanent position based in Swindon with hybrid working. We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

What you will be doing:

• Lead and manage the Financial Systems Team in maintaining and developing Historic England’s and its customers’ financial systems and providing support to users.
• Support, maintain and develop financial systems and their interfaces with other systems for all customers.
• Manage and develop financial systems reporting strategy, including the Excel based management information system and other management reporting tools.
• Participate in exploring the benefits and challenges of AI and emerging technologies within financial systems to improve organisation efficiencies that are reliable and scalable.

Who we are looking for:

• At least 3 years’ experience of managing a team involved in first- or second-line systems support or customer care, working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with experience of project management.
• Deadline orientated, able to prioritise, plan, organise own workload, and direct that of the team.
• Able to look at both the technical details, and the overall strategic picture, exploring relevant emerging technologies.
• Display an interest in development and improvement of elements of systems used with an understanding of financial and IT terminology, supported by strong technical skills.
• Experience of report writing and interrogation/manipulation of databases ideally Crystal Reports, XQuery, MS SQL and Excel.

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria. We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance. We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone.

We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can. We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working.

Why work for Historic England:

• We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work.
• We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.