Finance Systems Manager

We are looking for a Finance Systems manager to join our forward-thinking Technology team and help shape the future of City Football Group's Finance technology landscape.

As Finance Systems Manager within the Enterprise Solutions function, you'll lead the development, deployment, and optimisation of Finance systems that support CFG's global operations. Working closely with colleagues across Finance and Technology, you'll ensure our systems are stable, scalable, and aligned with business needs.

This hands on role combines system management with project delivery-introducing new solutions, enhancing existing platforms, and driving continuous improvement across Finance processes.

You'll play a key role in advancing CFG's digital Finance capability, enabling smarter, data driven decision making across our clubs and corporate teams. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative projects within a collaborative, fast paced environment at the heart of the global football industry. This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts. Your Impact

1. Configure, Administer and Maintain Enterprise Solution applications, providing day to day support, managing access ensuring reliability, access control and compliance.
2. Act as the first/second line support for Finance Technology Solutions utilising the Zendesk solution. To manage all tickets and triage as required while looking to improve processes.
3. Support the Senior Finance Technology Manager & Head of Enterprise Solutions to service, deliver and maintain the Enterprise Solutions Technology estate.
4. Assisting with the delivery of new Enterprise Solutions applications across the City Football Group Portfolio following the CFG PMO process.
5. Project manage the end to end delivery of projects, aligning to the Technology Architecture and using the methodologies at CFG.
6. Work with External Partners for system support and development.

• 5+ years in Finance systems experience.
• Strong understanding of accounting processes (AP, AR, GL Fixed Assets, Reporting etc.).
• Demonstrated project management capability, ideally across full project lifecycle.
• Experience with cloud based systems (e.g. NetSuite, SAP, Oracle).
• Advanced Excel and Power BI reporting knowledge.
• Strong communication skills, proactive, self motivated and collaborative working style.
• ITIL certification and familiarity with service management tools (e.g. Zendesk).
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Experience with system integration such as APIs.
• Experience of working with Unit4 ERP (Agresso).

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world's leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what "City" football has meant to people for over a century. Our Winning Team Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.