Senior Finance Systems Accountant

Overview

The organization is seeking a Senior Finance Systems Accountant to own how the team plans and reports day to day, turning data into systems people can trust. This role partners across Finance, BI, Engineering, and Product to make finance processes simpler, smarter, and more automated.

This is a fully remote role based in the UK, joining a newly formed, growing Finance Systems team.

Responsibilities

• Own Pigment day to day, including user access and models, as well as workflows, dashboards, and controls.
• Lead enhancements from first idea through testing, release, and user adoption.
• Reconcile Pigment with the ERP and other data sources; identify differences and fix them at the source.
• Train and support users, and document processes that keep data flowing and issues visible.
• Partner with the Finance Systems Director to improve wider systems, including the ERP, integrations, and reporting tools.
• Spot opportunities to simplify work through better processes, automation, and responsible use of AI.
• Translate between technical and finance teams so stakeholders remain aligned.

Requirements

• Hands-on Pigment experience, including administration, modelling, and reporting, plus the confidence to diagnose and improve models independently.
• Finance background with experience as a systems accountant or in a similar finance systems role, including solid accounting and controls knowledge.
• Experience across FP&A, financial reporting, or management reporting.
• Strong data investigation ability: trace data across systems, reconcile it, and explain outcomes.
• Ownership and good judgement: ability to juggle competing priorities and see work through to completion.
• Communication skills: tailor messaging to technical, finance, and non-finance colleagues.
• Systems improvement mindset: a track record turning business requirements into working system changes that are tested and adopted by users; continuous improvement mindset with confidence to challenge the status quo, and a real interest in automation and AI.

Location

• Fully remote, UK base.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description.