D365 Business Central Systems Accountant

Employer
Confidential
Location
Bangalore
Posted
Jul 13, 2024
Closes
Sep 10, 2024
Ref
4777958859
Level
Staff
Certification
CMA: Preferred
Work Mode
Work from office
Hours
Full Time
Organization Type
Corporate
Position

Develop, monitor, and manage Business Central financial processes. Work closely with our management accountants to support and guide user learning and meet business requirements. Streamline all financial processes to ensure efficient system utilisation.

Key Responsibilities

General


  • Design, analyze and review all financial systems, practices, and policies to ensure these are efficient and effective within our D365 system.
  • Support the Financial Controller in ensuring that internal financial controls are fit for purpose and are enforced, measured, and monitored, and improved where necessary.
  • Analyze all financial documents and related GL postings to ensure confidence in the financial processing of our Business Central system.
  • Review and enforce governance and controls across all finance systems and process.
  • Posting manual journals - review the impact on reporting and work with systems team to ensure this is automated as much as possible to avoid inconsistencies in the system. Ensure a log is kept for manual entries that require reconciliation to ensure we keep all ledgers clean.
  • Corrective / cancelling invoices, review the process to follow and treatment of entries surrounding these, monitor and manage within the system.
  • Monitor and manage all system configuration in BC and work with systems team / external consultants as needed to ensure system integrity.
  • Design and refine our fashion specific BC Finance month end processes in D365 streamlining all activities and ensuring team alignment and system checks in place to ensure closure on time:
  • Closing open sales, tidying up purchases and sales,
  • Journals, (reversing, recurring), currency revals etc
  • Consider all period end activities, map and ensure clear process within the system to ensure transparency for whole department.
  • Create a plan to deal with bad data migration, and tidy up system to ensure this is clean.

Daily

  • Review GP and Actuals reports and ensure alignment with system - investigate any errors/ issues.
  • Review tickets raised to BC system support and check in to ensure these are not urgent - escalate externally where there are any bugs that require fixing.
  • Monitor external tickets to ensure progression of all finance change requests.
  • Monitor daily adjust cost and other routines to ensure system alignment.
  • Work with systems and data team to close any alignment issues related to BC.
  • Support finance team with any issues / escalations or corrections to system required.
  • Oversee all financial data fixes required.

Weekly

  • Inventory valuation and treatment, journal entries reconciliation, monitor and manage.
  • Accruals - investigate and resolve bad data prior to system fix and align with systems team for any issues and fixes required.
  • Oversee and set all BC testing and UAT for change requests or upgrades as needed.
  • Creating sufficient reporting/ visibility and controls in place to identify user error in sales and purchase credits - and alignment with correct dimensions. Monitor and manage these controls and recommend improvements as needed.
  • Creating sufficient reporting/ visibility and control in the system for order management and invoicing in a timely manner that is thorough and reliable. Monitor and manage this process.
  • Monitor and manage posting groups to streamline default accounts.
  • Monitor and manage all dimensions, dimension, reporting and ensure this is consistent, and to identify improvements and scope in test before implementing changes to the live environment.
  • Monitor and manage dimension reporting - to highlight data issues to systems team.
  • Credit memos - consider use and treatment within system. Understanding the posting protocol and effect of all credit and debits, monitoring and managing via team.

Monthly

  • For management reporting inconsistencies, interrogate all financial documents/ transactions, review effects on posting entries and highlight issues and identify where process review or system updates is required, escalate to wider team for user training and action manual updates as needed.
  • Effective communication across cross-functional teams and diverse clients/stakeholders
  • Dimensional reporting - progress against planned improvement
  • Master data set review - ensure updated and correct.
  • Contribute to month end, on any system queries as needed to support management accountants.

Yearly

  • Take a lead on onboarding other entities on BC as needed (examples: Spain, Italy, Germany).
  • Achieve all set objectives for ticket resolution and SLA - review this against plan

Qualifications And Performance Attributes

  • Highly organized with excellent attention to detail
  • Confident in pressurized situations with strict deadlines.
  • Provide constructive feedback and support continuous improvement to colleagues and direct reports.
  • Must be a self-starter, proactive.
  • Must have a high level of integrity as dealing with the most sensitive data
  • Must be able to use own initiative and suggest efficient ways to improve process
  • ESSENTIAL: Qualified financial accountant
  • ESSENTIAL: Excellent data interrogation skills, advanced excel
  • Desirable: Power Bi advantageous in this position.
  • ESSENTIAL: User of BC who can interrogate data sets
  • ESSENTIAL: Ability to action Business Central financial administration/ system configuration changes
  • ESSENTIAL: Experienced implementing Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Pre-employment Checks: References required. Pre-employment Checks: References required

Opening: 1

Location: Bangalore (Work from Office)

Skills: microsoft dynamics 365,d365 system,master data set review,testing,month end processes,people management,memos,association of chartered certified accountants (acca),certified management accountant (cma),erp implementation project management,financial controls,dimensional reporting,data interrogation skills,accounting management,dynamics 365 business central,accruals,journal entries,management reporting,accountants,inventory valuation,business center,system configuration,account reconciliation,uat,ticket resolution,business central financial administration,system configuration changes,data migration,uat coordination,invoicing,team management,financial accountant,financial processes,advanced excel skills,power bi,gl postings,qualified chartered accountant,advanced excel,system alignment,reporting & analysis
Skills: business center , Data Migration, qualified chartered accountant , uat coordination , Advanced Excel, reporting & analysis, Accounting Management, Accruals, System Configuration, Team Management, Testing, Financial Accountant, Management Reporting, Uat, Power Bi, Journal Entries, Inventory Valuation, Account Reconciliation, Financial Controls, Invoicing, Accountants

Experience: 0.00-2.00 Years