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We're looking for a Finance Systems Manager to join our Finance team and play a key role in transforming and developing our finance systems landscape.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of finance, technology and business improvement. You'll be the bridge between Finance, Technology and wider business teams, helping our systems evolve to meet the needs of colleagues and support our organisational goals.
You'll help colleagues get more from our finance systems by driving enhancements, improving the user experience and supporting the delivery of a robust financial control framework across the organisation. To do this, you'll take ownership of our finance systems portfolio, with a particular focus on Epicor Kinetic.
You'll lead change through influence and collaboration, focusing on business requirements, prioritisation and improvement rather than hands‑on software development. This role has no direct reports. You'll work with our Technology Business Systems team, which is responsible for technical development, supported by an internal development team including two dedicated Kinetic developers.
- Owning the user experience across our finance systems and becoming the voice of the customer within the business.
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders across Finance, Technology and other departments to understand needs and priorities.
- Developing and maintaining a roadmap for system improvements and enhancements.
- Gathering requirements, writing user stories and supporting the delivery of system developments using Agile ways of working.
- Using data, insight and user feedback to inform decisions and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Coordinating user acceptance testing with Finance process owners and Technology, recording results and defects, and obtaining documented business acceptance from the relevant process owners before release. Supporting successful system releases, adoption activities and change management plans.
- Monitoring system performance and working with Finance process owners and Technology to improve processes and controls, including user access, segregation of duties, master data and the accuracy and completeness of data transferred between systems.
- Acting as a subject matter expert for finance systems across projects and organisational initiatives.
About you
We're looking for someone who combines strong stakeholder management skills with a passion for systems improvement and delivering value to users.
You'll likely bring:
- A demonstrable understanding of end‑to‑end finance processes and financial controls, including how system changes affect transaction processing, reconciliations and financial reporting.
- Experience translating finance requirements into improvements to ERP or related business systems, working collaboratively with users and technical teams.
- The ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience gathering requirements, prioritising work and managing competing demands.
- Strong analytical skills and a data‑driven approach to decision making.
- Experience of continuous improvement methodologies and delivering change.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Business analysis skills, including process mapping and workflow design.
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working and the ability to apply them to finance‑systems improvements, or transferable delivery experience and a willingness to learn this approach.
We welcome applications from candidates with transferable experience who are keen to learn. Experience with Epicor Kinetic would be advantageous but is not essential. Certified Scrum Product Owner or Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt qualifications would also be desirable, rather than essential.
Why work with us at IOP Publishing:
Purpose:
We are a world leader in the development of publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.
Culture:
We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.
Financial Benefits:
- A competitive salary starting from £50,000 (Band C) depending on experience
- an excellent pension scheme
- a discretionary annual bonus scheme
- a range of other useful and cost‑saving benefits available through our benefits platform
Health and Wellbeing:
- 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays)
- a 35-hour working week
- life assurance
- cycle-to-work scheme
- dental insurance
- health care cash plan
- a great positive working environment in our brand-new office in central Bristol - modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time.
Flexibility
A flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone's needs. The person in this role will need to be in the office on a weekly basis for regular meetings, annual appraisals, one to one and team meetings, subject to business needs.
And last but not least, did we mention that we are unique: IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not‑for‑profit society and we gift‑aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.
IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under‑represented backgrounds.
We make recruitment and workplace adjustments wherever we can, so please let us know if there's anything that we can do to support you.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for candidates. If however you already have the right to work in the UK or hold an eligible work permit or visa, we encourage you to apply for this position.
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