Systems Accountant

Flight Centre Travel Group are looking for a Systems Accountant to join the team! In this role, the Systems Accountant will be accountable for the delivery of initiatives for finance systems, ensuring alignment with technology standards and policies, whilst support business strategic initiatives.

A day in the life...

• Support the Finance Product Manager to inform strategic product roadmaps.
• Perform and/or monitor system administration tasks to ensure products align with policies, procedures and internal controls.
• Ensure all support queries are acknowledged, resolved, or followed up in a timely manner.
• Ability to identify root cause of issues and resulting correction of product related issues.
• Analyse support queries to identify trends and areas of improvements – driving the delivery of the continuous improvement culture in the services and systems that are provided.
• Develop ongoing knowledge articles for the supported applications.
• Responsible for the documentation of business requirements and process flows supporting product development.
• Ability to work closely with customers across all levels of the organisation as well as other internal and external service providers
• Development of test cases in alignment with overarching product test strategy
• Responsible for the overall execution of tests and reporting of test outcomes.
• Development and release of product release notes that are specific based on the impacted user group through your thorough understanding of current state processes.
• Development of support handover plans to assist transitioning from project delivery to business-as-usual state.
• Undertake training on nominated applications to develop user proficiency and knowledge of systems, across business and support resolver groups.
• Responsible for timely, accurate and tailored communication to business stakeholders and users that can be readily understood.
• Prioritisation of product backlog based on strong understanding of business pain points and initiatives.
• Responsibility for project delivery with development of plans to support both technology and business initiatives.
• Assist Product Manager's in leading and supporting team initiatives. 

Who you are... 

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in finance systems and/or exposure to product development of financial applications.
• Experience in documentation of business requirements, business process, training documentation and support artifacts.
• Exposure to QA and testing regimes.
• Knowledge of Agile practices.
• Proven project delivery experience with solid understanding software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience in/ interest in developing your leadership skills.
• Experience in ITIL with the delivery of support services to the business.