Recently named as one of the 'Best Big Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies, J. Murphy & Sons Limited (Murphy) is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure.
 
Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; power and water. Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities.
 
Murphy employs around 3,600 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’ - directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. 

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Finance Systems Manager -  Based at Wigan ( WA3 3JD)

The Finance Systems Manager reports to the Head of Business Systems and is responsible for ensuring Murphy’s Finance systems are operationally stable, developed and improved. Working closely with key stakeholders to get the maximum value from the Finance systems investment. The main purpose of the role is to provide task management and scheduling, supplier engagement, identification and delivery of continuous improvements into the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations system for the Murphy business key stakeholders in Finance, Procurement, Commercial and Operations.  The role needs to combine application management capability with good customer engagement skills and a working knowledge of finance. 

What you will be doing

• Engage with key business stakeholders (process owners) to gain an understanding of relevant business processes and identify current pain points / opportunities for improvement. 
• Translate business requirements, working with the key stakeholders and 3rd parties, to technical deliverables to achieve the business goals and objectives.
• Manage and co-ordinate tasks and activities through our partners, e.g. Annata / Panamoure, to deliver project tasks and BAU support activities.
• Develop key metrics and reports in partnership with our 3rd parties to give visibility to IT and key stakeholders in our performance and forecast capacity including delivery roadmaps
• Keep up to date with the D365 Finance & Operations product capabilities, its features and planned changes in the Microsoft Roadmap, looking for opportunities to assist in improving functionality or efficiency of the finance functions
• Provide operational escalation and management to the business in relation to the support of systems within the Financial Systems team’s remit
• Plan and own the release process for D365 to best support the business priorities, balancing stability, risk, benefit and cost
• Manage the D365 Environments ensuring development and support capability is available within the correct cost parameters 
• Manage unit testing and ensure the provision of support for full user acceptance testing for system upgrades, fix deployments and enhancements
• Schedules and agrees operational releases for D365 working with key operational stakeholders
• Support the IT project management team by providing resource, knowledge and solution advice to assist in the successful delivery
• Programme Management Team to ensure when we commit resource to projects it is effectively scheduled. 
• Undertake work as directed by the Head of Business Systems.
• Manage the wider finance systems (i.e. Syrinx) through the outsourced support teams and vendors ensuring responsive support and
• Implement information security best practices business-wide in order to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of company data, systems and infrastructure.
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate documentation is produced and maintained to support the ongoing service and maintenance around D365, ensuring agreed Murphy best practices and standards are followed.

Who we are looking for

• Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365) management support experience is essential
• Demonstrable experience in effectively supporting finance teams and the ability to articulate the service demands and proposed solutions
• Good working knowledge of business finance operations and processes
• Experienced with Financial Systems, including business requirements analysis and the use of an IT Service Management tools
• A personable, approachable character will work well in this environment. Someone who can empathise and provide solutions
• Application Management (Enterprise scale D365 Solution) experience including supplier management    
• Construction Industry experience working in Finance Systems 
• Management understanding of D365 Finance & Operations, its implementation, configuration and usage.    
• Experience in LCS and Dev/Ops for D365    
• Supplier and team management, specifically managing off-shore teams    
• Experience of supporting Financial Transactional Processing and reporting functions with good process knowledge