Low Carbon Contracts Company
Finance Systems Manager
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Finance Systems Manager
Finance Systems Manager
Department: Finance & Procurement
Employment Type: Full Time
Locations: Birmingham, England (B2 5DB), Leeds, England (LS1 4HR)
Role Overview
Contract Type: Permanent Hours: 37.5 per week Salary: Circa £83,000 (depending on experience) WFH Policy: Employees required to attend the office 2 days per week Flexible Working: Subject to line manager discretion; options include compressed 9-day fortnight
Reports To: Head of Finance
At a Glance: The Finance Systems Manager at LCCC plays a pivotal role by ensuring the finance function leverages the appropriate technology, automation, and audit-ready processes to support Britain’s Net Zero energy programmes.
As a bridge between Finance & Procurement and LCCC’s Technology Hub, you’ll spearhead finance technology requirements, drive ERP modernisation, champion data-driven process transformations, and guide AI adoption across finance.
This role demands a blend of financial expertise, technical acumen, and influential stakeholder management, engaging with finance teams, IT, vendors, and scheme operations partners.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Development
- Line manage the Finance Process Specialist and future finance roles, ensuring project delivery aligns with time, quality, and stakeholder needs.
- Provide daily management, performance oversight, and skill development to enhance the team’s technical capabilities.
- Lead change management for system and process deployments, creating inclusive communication/training plans for a technically diverse team.
Finance Systems & ERP Ownership
- Review and propose updates to the current ERP (Sage X3) or future system to streamline operations across Scheme Settlements, Finance Operations, and Procurement.
- Serve as the Finance Technologies Champion, driving a reduction in manual processes within ERP adoption.
- Lead the finance workstream of LCCC’s ERP migration, covering requirements, controls mapping, UAT coordination, data migration validation, and user adoption.
- Act as Finance & Procurement’s authoritative voice in tech forums, translating audit and finance requirements into system specifications for IT vendors.
- Align technology strategy with corporate goals, ensuring compliance with public sector and data governance standards.
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Process Transformation & Automation
- Identify automation opportunities to reduce manual interventions in financial settlements and operations.
- Deliver end-to-end process improvements (discovery, design, build, testing, handover) with audit-ready validation, exception flagging, and trails.
- Integrate finance systems with business applications, supporting data exchange across teams.
- Design technically accessible automation tools for finance staff, with clear guidance for updates (monthly/quarterly/annual).
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, upskilling team members across different technical skill levels.
AI Governance & Adoption
- Evaluate and approve AI-driven tools in finance that enhance efficiency, data integrity, or reporting.
- Ensure AI outputs meet audit compliance and NAO standards, with transparency policies for internal/external review.
- Stay current on AI advancements and advise leadership on ethical, jury-compliant adoption within public body criteria.
Data Management & Reporting
- Maintain data accuracy, security, and governance across all systems, aligned with public sector obligations.
- Orchestrate transition to a data warehouse to improve reporting efficiency for Settlement, Finance, and Procurement.
- Develop Power BI dashboards and Excel models to support financial analysis and decision-making excellence.
Project & Vendor Management
- Oversee finance technology projects (e.g., upgrades, migrations) in tandem with IT, Procurement, and delivery partners.
- Coordinate interfaces between finance systems and external schemes (e.g., EMRS).
User Support & Training
- Provide technical SME support and training for finance teams across wide-ranging systems.
- Serve as the primary system troubleshooting contact for finance stakeholders.
Essential Requirements
- Chartered/qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
- Proven finance management experience, including leading accounting or process teams.
- Foundational grasp of ERP implementation/migration (requirements, UAT, adoptive playbooks).
- Track record of financial process re-engineering, solutions architecture, and enabling efficiency gains with embedded audit trails.
- Expertise at translating finance/ovy objectives into system requirements for IT and vendors.
- Strong cross-team collaboration skills, complex idea simplification, and influential engagement.
- Experience development-creating with efficiency, control, and documentation.
- Line management experience including teaching clearance, helicoptering development, and team performance development across different technical backgrounds.
- Understanding of AI ethics and governance in a finance/public sector context, alongside critical evaluation of AI tool limitations.
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Desirable
Professional qualifications:
- Graduate-level or postgraduate qualification in finance, engineering, information technology, or a closely related sector.
- Project management accreditations (e.g., Prince2, APM).
Technical competency:
- Backend programming languages (Python, R)
- Data automation tools (SQL, Power Automate, Power BI)
- Experience deploying AI tools (Shubic Powersdele, AI-assisted analytics, etc.)
Industry or programme focus:
- Knowledge of CfD/Capacity Market frameworks or energy sector relevancy preferred.
Employee Benefits
As a title at Low Carbon Contracts Company, your contributions power industries that put carbon culminating down and reshape the planet’s energy future. Alongside meaningful work, we offer:
- Performance bonus-up to 10 percent annual
- Unlimited leave and 8 universal holidays
- Pension contribution (8 percent contribution level)
- Skill enhancement allowances + professional society subscriptions.
- Financial rewards proliferation (up to £1,500) and peer recognition programme.
- Family-friendly policies including extended among collectively before and post-natal leave.
- Work-life balance supports, including compliant free career support, and two voluntary GP visits per year.
- Third volunteering day as an easy way to give back.
- Reasonable daily loan programme and company-owned employee subsidies on identifiers/tech/lower to work bets.
- Family-focused:
- Discounted local experiences, specific museum/equestrian/coming votes, season ticket loans, an extensive food market/retail network.
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