ICFP Consultant

The Business: Founded by a team of financial experts and ex-MAT professionals, IMP Software has a deep understanding of the challenges facing multi-academy trusts. Our mission is to empower multi-academy trusts with the tools and expertise they need to manage their finances more efficiently and effectively. We are trusted by trusts across the country to provide the only budgeting, forecasting, and reporting software designed specifically for them. From a standing start, in less than 5 years we are now used by most large trusts to help them deliver smarter MAT Finance. We are proud to be at the forefront of innovation in the MAT finance sector, and we are constantly looking for ways to improve our offering. We work closely with our customers to understand their requirements so that we can tailor our product to their specific needs, and our team is always available to provide expert advice and support. At our core, we are more than just a software company. We are a team of passionate and dedicated professionals, committed to helping multi-academy trusts achieve their financial goals. We believe that financial planning should be simpler, more accessible, and more transparent, and we are proud to be leading the way in supporting smarter MAT finance. At IMP we are very aware that the success of our business will be directly correlated to the quality of the team that we can attract and retain. Due to this core belief, IMP offers fantastic career progression within a business that places huge importance on the happiness of the team, through our respectful, fun and supportive culture, flexible working, regular socials and funded/encouraged CPD.

Role Description: As a member of the ICFP team, you will be working with customers to migrate, standardise and cleanse the various curriculum planning information from each of the separate systems into IMP’s central planning tool, primarily using Excel for the data manipulation. The maturity of the organisation and quality of previous systems will depict how standardised the incoming information is. In addition to technical tasks, you will provide comprehensive support to customers throughout the process, understanding their challenges and defining the best methods to solve this using the software.

Key responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients during the implementation phase
• Review the treatments that have been used within each school and in conjunction with IMP’s methodology and the clients’ needs
• Define the best method to build the curriculum plans and ensure the legacy data is migrated in a consistent way
• Meet the curriculum planning requirements of the client
• Support customers through the implementation process including user acceptance testing

Skills, experience, and attributes:

• Excellent knowledge of Excel - we have an Excel test as an interview stage for this process
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office and Teams
• Prior experience of finance system administration/implementation or school finances/curriculum planning is highly advantageous
• You are an enthusiastic individual with a logical approach to problem solving
• AAT qual, QBE and Part-qual would be advantageous but not essential

Benefits:

• 27 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays (with a buy option up to an additional 5 days)
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave
• AXA Health insurance including dental, optical and mental health
• Broadband allowance
• Home office stipend
• Life assurance (4 x basic salary)
• Encouraged and funded CPD