System Administrator

We have an exciting opportunity at AGS Airports Limited for a System Administrator to join our Finance team.
The role will be based at Glasgow Airport.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Participation in our annual bonus plan
• 25 days annual holiday plus 8 public holidays
• Generous pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Private Healthcare
• Flexible Benefit Platform
• Life Assurance Cover
• Free on-site car parking
• Agile/Flexible working, where appropriate for the role

The Systems Administrator will support Accounting & Reporting, Business Planning & Analysis and wider airport teams.
The purpose of this role is to provide ERP support, financial understanding of AGS and other back-office systems. To organise Finance IT systems, process and controls to ensure the financial accounts are accurately prepared and reported and that the necessary controls are in place and operating. To work closely with the transactional finance team, wider finance teams and local airports to support the integrity of these systems and processes.
The role holder will provide administration, maintenance, security, and performance of the organisation's finance systems. This role ensures the availability, reliability, and integrity of the ERP and billing system.

The post holder will also be able to develop strong relationships with the other Finance and Business functions to work collaboratively across all business functions. The candidate must possess excellent transactional finance and ERP system knowledge, detailed analytical skills and the ability to problem solve. Finally, the candidate must be able to demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Responsible for all three airports and corporate division within the AGS Group with regards to finance back-office systems
• Maintain accounting and associated systems to ensure that all the finance transactions are accounted for accurately
• Act as a key interface between the business and the system providers, ensuring AGS is up to date with developments, changes and releases
• Responsible for ensuring the accounting systems are operating efficiently and effectively
• User administration for multiple systems providing segregation of duties and data access/control
• Maintain chart of accounts, cost centres, organisational hierarchies and workflows
• Diagnose reported faults through interrogation of the systems and resolve where possible and escalate where required
• Maintain financial accounting calendars, co-ordinate and support the month end close across the finance community
• Maintain foreign currency tables and communicate to the business
• Ensure the integrity of systems through daily monitoring of interfaces, scheduled requests, workflows and system capacity statistics
• Carry out regular audit checks on system usage and data quality (compliance)
• Ensure transactions are accounted for accurately and support IFRS accounting standards compliance
• Maintain the reporting suite and reporting trees, understand reporting requirements and assist users to develop reporting solutions
• Assist users with systems support, develop user training and create training materials, when required.
• Support macro enabled spreadsheets
• Ensure all key financial controls are operating as required and work with the Head of Accounting & Reporting to ensure all the controls that are in existence are required and redundant controls are retired
• Audit and report on processes, risk and controls quarterly
• Participation in internal and external audits
• Support the Head of Accounting & Reporting on process improvement and project work
• Any additional ad hoc duties as required.

• Previous experience as a system administrator, overseeing the…