Summary: The Interim Benefit Payment and Accounting System Advisor will serve as a Finance Subject Matter Expert for a public sector organization in Glasgow/Dundee, focusing on the project lifecycle of a new payment and accounting system. This hybrid role requires collaboration with governance forums and finance teams, ensuring that finance interests are protected throughout the project. The advisor will also manage risks, provide quality assurance, and support change management communications. The position is part-time, requiring 21 hours of work per week over three full days.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as key Finance Subject Matter Expert throughout the Project lifecycle.
• Represent Finance at all relevant Governance forums and keep the Finance teams informed of project progress.
• Define and explain Finance business requirements.
• Review and contribute to Options appraisal with Finance impacts.
• Steer the proposed design of the new Payment and Accounting solution to protect Finance interests; likely to require attendance at multiple workshops.
• Provide quality assurance over test strategy and lead testing of payment and accounting processes.
• Manage any Risks and Issues that arise during project life cycles and ensure impacted Finance stakeholders engaged, and appropriate mitigating actions agreed.
• Provide quality assurance over change management communications.
• Provide hyper-care support to stabilise processes after going live before handing over to Live Service to maintain.

Key Skills:

• Professionally qualified accountant – CCAB/CIMA/CA professional accountancy body or equivalent with up-to-date CPD.
• Experience of leading Finance Programmes/Projects or acting as Finance Subject Matter Expert on major finance/payment systems change programmes.
• Experience of leading finance/payment processes and control design and ensuring legal/fiscal/Audit compliance requirements are met.
• Must be credible with staff, creating conditions to build confident and effective teams that empower, value, develop and motivate people.
• Proven ability to work on your own initiative, to deliver high quality outcomes and outputs and to meet deadlines whilst managing competing pressures.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, both written and verbal, with a proven ability to explain financial or technical information effectively to non-finance/non-technical stakeholders and to influence change.
• Experience of managing finance/payment projects in a dynamic/ Agile environment (desirable).
• Knowledge of Scottish Government financial systems, processes, policies and procedures (desirable).
• Change Management - experience in impacting and communicating changes to business processes (desirable).
• Aware of GDPR/ Data privacy legislation (desirable).

Salary (Rate): 558.50

City: Glasgow

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other