Systems Accountant

Systems Accountant Location, 35 hours, 15-month Fixed Term Contract Salary per annum £ 66,909 plus £5,094 London Weighting Imagine being faced with a world of exciting possibilities that could ultimately enable you to support our members and help shape the health policies of the future. As the UK's largest trade union and professional body for nursing, we support over half a million members with unwavering loyalty and total commitment. We represent and develop them, support their practice and lobby on their behalf to make a positive difference to their working lives. We're accredited with Investors in People Silver Standard. Our people are our greatest asset, and we want people who can contribute to our purpose in line with our values. To be the RCN Groups Finance Transformation Lead during the development of and transition to Microsoft Dynamics Finance and Operations from the current on-premise Open Accounts systems. Due for delivery in mid-2025 you will engage and lead the Finance
Team Subject Matter experts when they are required and work closely with the third-party implementation team, Technical Accountant and Project Team in delivering the statement of work. Working from the start of the project you will be responsible for bringing all stakeholders together to design a system that delivers the end-to-end transactional processing and reporting structures and controls required for a group that includes a Trade Union/ Membership Organisation, trading subsidiary and Charity.

Hold a CCAB accountancy qualifications (ACA /ACCA/CIMA) Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and Microsoft Power Apps. Be a skilled Project Manager with excellent planning and organisational skills. Have great communication skills, including the ability to present information to finance and non-finance staff in a clear and concise manner. To succeed at the Royal College of Nursing all you need to do is think bigger, better and brighter. And with an attitude like that, anything's possible. What we offer you We expect you to look after your customers. And we expect you to be rewarded for it. We offer an impressive range of benefits, a broad range of learning development opportunities and an award-winning health and wellbeing programme. We offer annual leave up to 32 days plus bank holidays and three additional days for the Christmas break plus generous maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave packages. What we deliver for our members is

wide and varied so when it comes to how we work one size doesn't fit all. We also know that to empower our people to do their best work, they must be able to balance the demands of work and home. We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs and many of our employees enjoy flexible working enabling them to deliver results whilst having a good work life balance. Departments and directorates have their own hybrid ways of working which put the needs of the service they deliver - whether that's to members or to colleagues - at their heart, in alignment with our hybrid working core principles. At the RCN it's unlikely you will work from home for all of your working time. Equally no one is expected to work solely in the office unless your role requires it. You can find out more by having a discussion with the recruiting manager.