Finance Systems Lead
Company Overview
team.blue is an ecosystem of 60+ successful brands working together across 22 European countries to provide its 3.3 million SMB customers with everything they need to succeed online by offering best-in-class expertise and services.
team.blue's brands are a mix of traditional hosting businesses that offer services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce, and server hosting solutions and, as specialist SaaS providers, adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools, and team collaboration products. This broad product offering makes it a one-stop partner for online businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe.
Job Overview
Working closely with the Finance Excellence Centre Manager and team, the Finance Systems Lead is responsible for ensuring that the full functionality of NetSuite and related finance systems that form the Team.Blue Finance Ecosystem is fully leveraged and optimised to meet the needs of the Finance Excellence Centre and wider Business Users.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Solution Ownership: Lead the architecting of the design and optimising of Finance Systems ecosystem for Team.Blue – centred on the Oracle NetSuite OneWorld solution, its’ requisite SuiteApps and third-party add-ons, and its’ interaction with both upstream and downstream systems.
2. Solution Implementation: Coordinate the implementation of the various technical components in and around the Finance Systems ecosystem to ensure compatibility, inter-operability, integration and stabilility.
3. Solution Optimisation: Work with the Finance Excellence Centre Manager and their team to optimise the Finance solutions to ensure maximum productivity and efficiency of the operations.
4. Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with key stakeholders across departments, including the Finance Excellence Centre, finance, accounting, internal audit, and IT, to ensure alignment with objectives with business goals.
5. Policy and Compliance: Develop and maintain the necessary system policies, procedures, and controls to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, accounting standards, internal guidelines.
6. Communication and Reporting: Demonstrate the effective stability and performance of the Finance Systems Ecosystem by generating data and reports relating to uptime/availability, incidents and resolution, end to end cycle times.
Tasks:
1. Architectural Review: Review all components in the Finance Systems ecosystem to ensure compatibility, inter-operability and maintainability
2. Environment Management: Implement processes to ensure that the various NetSuite Sandbox environments are effectively managed for the use of Development, Testing, Data Migration, Training and Trouble-shooting, and that the Production environment is protected at all times from unauthorised or untested configuration or changes.
3. System Access & Controls: Oversee the set up and initial operation of the necessary processes to control the access to the Finance Systems - developing a set of appropriate roles and permissions that meet the complex needs of the Finance Excellence Centre and the distributed Business Units.
4. Forms, Templates and Dashboards: Assist the Finance Excellence Centre team in setting up and adapting the necessary forms, templates and Dashboards to meet their evolving Business requirements.
5. Finance Systems Support Team: Oversee the design and set up of the necessary Finance Systems support team and processes to ensure smooth operation and maintenance of the various systems and interfaces.
Qualifications & Experience:
• Proven experience in large global transformation programmes for finance, or operations roles with in-depth knowledge of all accounting processes and how they are translated into ERP systems.
• Sound understanding of accounting principles, financial controls, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GAAP, IFRS, SOX) in multiple jurisdictions.
• In depth knowledge of implementing and optimising Oracle’s NetSuite OneWorld solution for complex brown-field global companies – with appropriate qualifications and experiences
• Proven experience in tackling complex accounting scenarios and working with the Business community to create acceptable solutions.
• Proven, hands-on experience in systematically triaging and resolving live incidents in NetSuite OneWorld - collating evidence, liaising with Oracle NetSuite and other Partners to provide both hot-fix and permanent solutions to them.
• Detailed knowledge of NetSuite customisation toolset (SuiteBuilder,SuiteFlow, SuiteScript, FreeMarker/HTML/CSS)
• Ability to work with cross-functional Business teams to optimise both discrete and end to end operations in Oracle NetSuite OneWorld implementations for maximum operational performance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, CIMA/ACCA.
• Analytical mindset with proficiency in data analysis and problem-solving.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and project management skills.
Additional Requirements:
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with changing priorities.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for meetings, training, or conferences.
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Everyone is welcome here. Diversity & Inclusion are at our core. Far above any technical competence, we value respect, openness, and trusted collaboration. We do not tolerate intolerance.
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- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Lisboa - Portugal, Lisbon-Portugal
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Mid - Senior level
- LinkedIn Company Page
- team.blue
About team.blue Global
The most trusted digital enabler
team.blue is a leading digital enabler for companies and entrepreneurs. It serves over 3.3 million customers in Europe and has more than 3,000 experts to support them. Its goal is to shape technology and to empower businesses with innovative digital services.
Finance Systems Lead
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