Finance Systems Support Analyst Contract

Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the worlds largest companies. Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide marketleading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities: Loyalty Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance.

The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.

We have more than 25 years experience with 28 global locations servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries employing 1800 people.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include: Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1800 colleagues globally.

Purpose of the job

Reporting into the Finance Systems Manager you will be ensuring the systems are fit for purpose with a focus on efficiency accuracy reliability timeliness and ease of use whilst keeping a continual eye on opportunities for improvement to evolve the systems tools to meet the growing needs of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Managing the daytoday operations of the organisations ERP (D365 F&O) system and other key business systems including monitoring integrations managing the operational health of systems (e.g. provision of access managing permissions backups performance and troubleshooting capacity monitoring).

Providing guidance training and technical support to users.

Coordinating with internal stakeholders vendors and consultants to implement business changes and to implement new functionality within the ERP toolset/other business systems.

Planning and implementing system upgrades and changes including working with stakeholders to gather requirements testing changes and deploying them to the system.

Securing the ERP system and other Business systems. This includes implementing security measures to protect the system from unauthorized access data breaches and other threats.

Monitoring system performance and capacity. This includes identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and ensuring that the system has enough capacity to meet the needs of the business.

Keeping up with the latest ERP and other business systems trends and technologies including staying informed of new features and functionality as well as new security threats.

Developing and maintaining system documentation.

Analysing system logs and data.

Preparing status reports and presentations for senior management.

Understanding the business and improving / developing IT solutions to support insight andefficiency.

Knowledge skills and experience required

Expert knowledge of Microsoft D365 F&O essential min 3 years experience.

Microsoft accredited ERP Certification desirable but not essential.

Strong MS Office skills especially Excel & Power BI

Experience of succeeding in a deadline driven environment Experience of multicurrency environments advantageous

Experience of highvolume businesses Able to communicate confidently and effectively at all levels within an organisation. High level of accuracy Strong attention to detail Person Specification

Demonstrates strong organizational skills working to strict deadlines

Commercially aware delivers results and can identify opportunities for cost saving and efficiencies.

Excellent communication interpersonal and collaboration skills

Demonstrates excellent technical skills

Good Team player able to work with wide variety of stakeholders

Excellent problem solver

Demonstrates good written communication skills including documentation and correspondence

Demonstrates ability to be flexible and adaptable

Ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoing success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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