Michael PageFinancial Systems Manager
Jun. 2014 - May. 2018Slough, United KingdomLeading a team of five, my role is to support a wide range of internal and client facing business systems, covering functions including finance, HR and payroll. This includes maintaining the Finance Data and Access databases used for data reporting and manipulation as well as the client-facing temp time capture and billing system used by 5,000 temp workers and their employers across the UK and North America. This role has a strong project management focus, leading the development, implementation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, testing, disaster recovery and procurement of new systems and solutions that add significant business value. System knowledge includes: Coda Financials 11.3, Cadenza Billing, ADP Payroll, Paygate and Concur Expenses Key achievements in this role include: - Spearheading the change to a cloud based SaaS approach to the finance systems development strategy resulting in a simplified BCP strategy and greater flexibility through remote working
- Consolidating all HR and payroll solutions in the UK, US and Canada with the migration of temp and perm payroll to ADP
- Successfully delivering other finance system migration projects including Access 2003 to Access 2013 and Citrix to desktop deployment - Playing a key role in a major project to transition the North American finance function to the UK shared service centre