Chart of Accounts B3 Interim Contractor

Description

We are seeking up to 4 interim workers to engage with a range of business areas across the Scottish Government and its agencies to manage delivery of the new “Chart of Accounts” (CoA) which will underpin the delivery of the new Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning System being introduced in April 2024. We are seeking up to 4 interim workers at Scottish Government equivalent grade of B3 to engage with a range of business areas across the Scottish Government and its agencies to manage delivery of the new “Chart of Accounts” (CoA) which will underpin the delivery of the new Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning System being introduced in April 2024. These roles will each lead and manage this work for a family of business areas, building on initial work that has already been completed, working with business areas to ensure that the new chart of accounts is fully reviewed and updated ready for the system to go live. The nature of the work is such that a key requirement of the role is a flexible and adaptable approach to working in partnership with colleagues across the Team, Directorate and wider Scottish Government community. Main duties: -Quickly build subject matter knowledge related to both the extant and new CoA (including supplementary sub-ledger detail) -Lead and influence customers through engagements to capture requirements for new CoA, as well as mappings from old to new values -Ensure that segment purpose and thin General Ledger principles are adhered to and that specified requirements are in line with target policy (considering also wider reporting and accounting implications) -Responsible for delivery of completed customer CoA templates within phased project timelines -Managing data quality issues through liaison with customers and implementation partners as required -Contributing to the management and development of supporting segment hierarchies -Contribute to related system implementation activities within the Record to Report function, such as General Ledger and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) configuration, reporting and data migration