Summary: The Management Accountant - Systems Support role at The Open University involves managing budgeting, forecasting, and reporting functions while supporting financial system transformations. This full-time, temporary position requires expertise in accounting systems, particularly SAP BPC, and collaboration with various stakeholders. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in maintaining financial models and ensuring effective communication across departments. This opportunity is ideal for finance professionals looking to contribute to significant changes in financial processes within a leading educational institution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Opening and closing budgeting and forecasting models monthly.
• Updating system dimensions and running spot-check reconciliations.
• Weekly maintenance of input forms and dimension refreshes.
• Managing business process flow templates and user access.
• Creating user-specific reports and input forms.
• Investigating user queries and escalating issues to IT support via ticketing systems.
• Liaising with offshore IT support to ensure timely resolution of defects.
• Supporting business partners in forecasting, budgeting, and reporting tasks.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams (Finance, IT, and other departments) to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
• Adapting to and managing additional responsibilities as they arise in a dynamic environment.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience using SAP BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) - essential.
• Working knowledge of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) - desirable.
• Strong accounting background with the ability to understand and explain financial data.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams and functions.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Experience working in large or complex organisations, ideally within higher education.

Salary (Rate): 29.76

City: Milton Keynes

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Finance