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FP&A Functional Consultant
Permanent
Location: UK - Fully Remote
Salary: £65,000 - £80,000 plus bonus
Key skills:
- Unit4 FP&A
- FP&A implementation
- Solution configuration
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Financial planning
We are recruiting a Unit4 FP&A Functional Consultant for a specialist business systems consultancy.
This is a hands-on consulting role focused on the implementation and configuration of Unit4 FP&A solutions for a range of customers.
The successful candidate must have practical experience configuring and implementing Unit4 FP&A. This role would not suit someone whose experience is limited to using an FP&A system within an end-user finance team.
You will work closely with customers to understand their planning, budgeting and forecasting requirements, translate those requirements into effective system designs, and configure solutions that support their business processes.
This is a UK-based remote role, with travel to customer sites when required.
The Role
As a Unit4 FP&A Functional Consultant, you will:
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- Deliver Unit4 FP&A implementation projects
- Run discovery workshops and gather customer requirements
- Translate finance and FP&A processes into effective system designs
- Configure Unit4 FP&A solutions for budgeting, forecasting, planning and reporting
- Support data migration, testing, training and go-live activity
- Advise customers on best practice and process improvement
- Troubleshoot functional and configuration issues
- Work closely with technical consultants, developers and project teams
- Contribute to solution design, estimates and pre-sales activity
- Support installations, upgrades and wider project delivery where required
- Keep up to date with Unit4 FP&A product developments and new functionality
About You
You will bring:
- Hands-on experience implementing and configuring Unit4 FP&A
- Experience delivering at least one full Unit4 FP&A implementation
- Strong knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting
- Experience gathering requirements and designing FP&A solutions
- The ability to configure solutions based on customer requirements
- Experience working directly with finance stakeholders and end users
- Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder management skills
- The ability to translate business requirements into practical system solutions
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
- The confidence to take ownership of delivery and work independently
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Desirable Experience
Experience in any of the following would be beneficial:
- Unit4 FP&A CPM or BI
- SQL Server or Oracle
- T-SQL or PL/SQL
- ETL tools such as SSIS
- JavaScript
- ERP or wider business applications
- Finance, accounting or Unit4 certifications
- Unit4 Record to Report accreditation
The Opportunity
This is an excellent opportunity to join a specialist consultancy with live Unit4 FP&A projects already in delivery.
The successful candidate will need to become productive quickly and take ownership of functional implementation work from requirements gathering through to go-live.
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