Finance Systems Manager

Finance Systems Manager

Department: Finance & Procurement

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 / week

Salary: circa £83,000 depending on experience

Location: Birmingham (B2 5DB
)

WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week

Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.

Reports to: Head of Finance

Role

Summary:

LCCC is at the heart of the UK’s transition to Net Zero, administering government-backed low carbon energy schemes that are transforming the energy landscape. The Finance Systems Manager reports to the Head of Finance and Procurement and plays a pivotable role in ensuring our finance function has the technology, automation and audit-ready controlled processes to support that mission - leading the development of LCCC’s finance technology across Finance Operations, Scheme Settlements and Procurement.

The Finance Systems Manager acts as the bridge between the Finance & Procurement department and LCCC’s Technology Hub, representing Finance’s requirements in all technology and system decisions. The role requires a strong blend of finance expertise, technical capability, and stakeholder influence—engaging credibly with finance colleagues, IT teams and system vendors. It also requires close collaboration with wider LCCC teams and external delivery partners, including EMRS and Scheme Operations, to ensure alignment across schemes and the maintenance of robust financial controls and audit-ready processes.

The role provides direct line management of the Finance Process Specialist and any future roles within the finance systems team. The role also carries responsibility for governing AI adoption within Finance and ensuring all technology outputs meet audit and public body requirements.

The key responsibilities of the role are outlined below, covering both LCCC and ESC. However, this is an overview of the role and is not exhaustive. As the size and number of different schemes continues to grow, the dynamic nature of the role may lead to further enhancements. LCCC recognises the evolving nature of the responsibilities and reserves the right to assign other duties commensurate with the role as required.

• Line manage the Finance Process Specialist and any future roles, ensuring improvement projects are scoped correctly and delivered to time and quality.
• Provide day-to-day management, objective setting, performance oversight, and development support to direct reports, building technical capability across team members of varying ability.
• Lead change management activity for new system and process deployments, developing communication and training plans that bring finance colleagues of all technical abilities with them.

• Oversee review of the current ERP system (Sage X3) and consider future change or updates.
• Act as the Sage X3 (or future ERP system) Finance champion, including the administration role, ensuring the system is progressively removed from manual transactional processes in Scheme Settlements, Finance Operations and Procurement.
• Lead the finance workstream of LCCC’s future ERP migration — owning requirements gathering, controls mapping, UAT coordination, data migration validation, and finance-side user adoption.
• Act as the main point of contact with IT to cover the period of connectivity with the new settlement system and future systems.
• Represent Finance & Procurement as the authoritative voice in corporate technology forums and governance processes, translating finance and audit requirements into clear system specifications for IT and vendors.
• Ensure Finance technology development is in line with company direction and LCCC’s corporate technology strategy.
• Support the team with banking software and related financial system tools.

• Identify opportunities to automate financial processes and improve efficiency in Scheme Settlements and Finance Operations.
• Lead process transformation projects from discovery and mapping to…