Serve as the Finance-IT subject matter expert for Microsoft Business Central, ensuring data integrity, reconciling sub-ledgers to the GL, optimising finance processes, maintaining reporting architecture and data flow to the warehouse, automating workflows, troubleshooting system issues, training users, and scaling system architecture for new entities and business lines.
Reporting to the FP&A Manager (Data, MI & Systems) you'll act as a subject matter expert and the key link between Finance and IT in not only maintaining but optimising our ERP (Microsoft Business Central), automating workflows and maintaining data integrity to help the FP&A and Finance team to support the business at this critical step in our growth trajectory.
Key Responsibilities
Systems Administration
- BC Maintenance: Act as the super-user for Microsoft Business Central, managing chart of accounts (COA) mapping, dimensions, and user permissions.
- Integrity Management: Perform regular system reconciliations to ensure the sub-ledgers align perfectly with the General Ledger.
- Process Optimisation: Continuously audit current finance workflows to eliminate manual workarounds and "Excel-heavy" processes.
- Troubleshooting: Serve as the first point of contact within finance for system issues, collaborating with our IT team and external consultants for complex resolutions
Data & MI (The "Fewest Clicks" Initiative)
- Reporting Architecture: Maintain data structure in Business Central so it aligns to the wider Finance reporting architecture that allows the Finance team and wider business to access real-time data without manual manipulation.
- Single Source of Truth: Work with the Data team to ensure financial data flowing into the warehouse is clean, structured, and "analysis-ready.“
Growth & Scaling
- User Training: Create "How-To" documentation and lead training sessions to upskill the wider finance team on system best practices.
- Scaling Support: Ensure that as we add new legal entities or business lines, the system architecture is robust enough to handle the volume without manual intervention.
Experience and Qualifications
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified
- Experience in a Systems Accountant role
- Experience in using PowerBI / Microsoft Fabric an advantage
- Experience in using SQL / PySpark beneficial
- Strong Excel skills
- Driven to improve processes and clarity of outputs
- Strong communicator and able to engage with key internal and external stakeholders at multiple organisational levels
Salary and Benefits
We offer a competitive salary based on experience along with a full benefits package.
Network Plus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
We are Armed Forces-friendly. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, armed forces veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
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About
Network Plus is an award-winning business delivering essential utility and infrastructure services for the UK’s major providers of gas, power, telecoms, transport, water, and wastewater.We value the variety of experience, perspective, and other points of difference our workforce, clients, and supply chain offer.We are actively working with colleagues across the Network Plus Group to develop an inclusive environment – we want all our employees to feel valued and included to enable everyone to thrive at work and understand the value of their contribution matters no matter their background, identity, or circumstances.
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