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Head of Financial Systems (UK, London)
29 July 2010
| Company: Highly regarded international law firm | Job type: Permanent |
| Country: United Kingdom | City: London |
| Salary indication: Open | |
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Description: Our client is a highly regarded international law firm with offices across Europe and the Far East. The firm is about to undertake a large scale upgrade of its Global Elite Enterprise Practice Management system and is looking to recruit a Financial Systems Manager with a background in the legal sector to assume full responsibility for developing and managing the system to ensure ongoing business requirements are met. Reporting to the Head of Accounts, the post holder will be responsible for managing the Finance Systems team which works along-side its accounts and ICT Teams. There is currently a team of five.The firm is using Elite Enterprise i n four of its offices and they are looking to expand the usage of the system to all its officers across Europe and the Far East. The post-holder will play a central role in driving forward the migration to Elite Enterprise in all its offices and subsequent development of Elite and related software.The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (or be qualified by experience) and with experience of the implementation and development Elite Enterprise upgrades with law firm experience in an international firm. You will need strong person and project management experience and have knowledge of Excel, MS Query and SQL. This is a highly exciting opportunity to join a leading international firm in a position of responsibility. Salary will be dependent upon experience. The role will involve extensive travel. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call Nigel Lawrence on 0207 397 1591 for further information. |
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