Project Systems Accountant – Dublin At Concern Worldwide

Our vision, our mission and our work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. We believe that no-one should have to live in fear that they won’t have a home to sleep in or enough food to feed their children. For over 50 years we have been working with the world’s poorest people to transform their lives.

Today we are a team of over 4,400 highly skilled and dedicated professionals from 50 countries who share an exceptional depth and diversity of experience. We want committed, values driven staff to join our HQ team and are currently looking for a Project Systems Accountant to be part of our Finance department.

Concern offers in-house management and leadership courses and tailored organisation-wide learning opportunities both in-person and online. We are committed to providing our staff with the skills needed to excel in their jobs. All employees are required to undertake training in equality, diversity and inclusion; the Code of Conduct; and safeguarding, along with any other training required for the role.

Our culture is values driven and friendly. A global engagement survey conducted in 2022, responded to by 3,577 of our staff, showed that 89% of our staff would happily recommend Concern as a great place to work and 94% are proud to tell people that they work for Concern.

Our office is located in Dublin 2 and we are currently working a hybrid model (50% remote working) and offer flexi time.

The job: Working as a Project Systems Accountant, you will form part of the technical finance team on the Finance and Supply Chain project.

The overall objective of the project is to migrate from a legacy finance system and manual logistics procedures to a new ERP solution that will standardise ways of working, delivering significant efficiencies as well as better information and transparency for all users.

Successful implementation of this project will require significant process and behaviour change across the organisation and will entail substantial end user training, and change enablement initiatives.

Building on the needs specification work that is currently underway, the Project Systems Accountant on the project will:

1. Assist on the pre-system financial process improvement stage and
2. Assist on the financial components of the design, build, implementation and adoption of the chosen ERP solution, during which the role will work in close collaboration with a comparable role covering Logistics – to develop the combined solution.

If you join us, this is what you will be doing:

Process improvement stage:

• Analyse all the information gathered from departments, branches and subsidiaries from the various meetings, surveys etc. as required by the Finance Project Manager
• Support business process improvements in selected areas and look to drive efficiencies (this will be based on feedback already gathered during the finance discovery phase)
• Work with the Finance Project Manager to identify simple and innovative solutions
• Assist the Finance Project Manager in socialising the potential process changes with stakeholders and in gathering feedback that helps refine the solutions
• Provide support to the relevant stakeholders to test and implement these improvements

Systems Development Stage:

• Work with the Finance Project Manager and wider finance team to ensure that the detailed module requirements are clearly defined
• Work closely with the Finance Project Manager and system development partner on the system build
• Participate in initial testing of module design outputs and provide results to the system development partner
• Assist the wider finance team in carrying out user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Assist in the migration of data from the current system to the new ERP
• Gathering the reporting requirements for the business and ensure these are defined within the ERP system
• Provide ad-hoc analysis and support to the Finance Project Manager and wider finance team on the functionality of the new ERP system
• Assist in the design of user manuals for training and provide guidance to relevant stakeholders (finance and non-financial users) on the use of the ERP system.

General

• Carry out other tasks applicable to the role as required by the Finance Project Manager
• Upholding and promoting Concern’s values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion values.

Skills you will bring:

Essential:

• Professional qualification in accountancy and at least 3 years’ post qualification experience
• Strong organisation and coordination skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to convey and relate ideas to others, comfortable in presenting to management and other stakeholders
• Deep understanding of Concern’s financial procedures
• Experience in process improvement and implementation

Desirable:

• Experience in ERP introduction, upgrade, or migration projects
• Experience working with an INGO in the developing world
• Project Management formal training and certification (e.g. PRINCE2®)
• Basic French language

You will report to the Finance Project Manager and will liaise with managers and staff across various departments, teams and country programs in Concern. You will also liaise with external consulting firms and systems development/integration partners, to help deliver a strategic programme of work.

The salary is from €51,402 to €60,472 (Grade 5) and this is a 2 year fixed term contract.

Important information:

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible here. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.

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