Vacancy Name

Digital Accountancy Technologist




Vacancy No

VN1898




Employment Type

Permanent




Duration

N/A




Location City

London




Location Country

United Kingdom




Company Description

Xeinadin was established in 2019 when a number of leading business advisory and accountancy practices across the UK and Ireland came together to re-imagine the future of accountancy. Our collective mission to provide locally forged, trusted business advice to SMEs through forward-thinking, close-knit relationships remains pivotal to our growth. It's our people who drive our business forward, and we offer them future-focused career opportunities whilst supporting individual specialisms. Our regional offices of over 3000 colleagues operate collaboratively, combining collective expertise to maximise potential.




Description

The Digital Accountancy Technologist is a hands-on regional specialist responsible for delivering the firm's digital accountancy strategy across a defined region. The role combines technical delivery (migrations, integrations, licence management and reporting) with capability building (training Cloud Specialists and Cloud Champions), supplier engagement and client-facing solution design.



The teams purpose is to deliver, support and embed the Xeinadin Digital Strategy.




Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities and day to day



Regional strategy and delivery



Own delivery of the cloud/digital accountancy strategy for your region and translate central plans into local, measurable outcomes.



Proactively foster a cloud culture across regional offices.



Client consultation and technical delivery



Assess client needs and design tailored cloud accounting and automation solutions.



Lead and coordinate migrations from manual books and legacy systems to cloud platforms; provide hands-on support during cutover and early post-migration phases.



Capability building and supplier management



Identify, train and mentor Cloud Specialists and Cloud Champions; oversee their development from consultation through configuration and installation.



Maintain relationships with preferred suppliers; assess vendor products, coordinate supplier training and maintain required certifications.



Licence management, reporting and compliance



Produce licence activation and usage adoption for regional offices and support re




Key Requirements

Essential experience and skills



Practical experience delivering cloud accounting solutions and digital transformation projects in an accountancy or professional services environment.



Hands-on familiarity with mainstream cloud accounting platforms (for example Xero, Sage, Dext and other platforms).



Experience with migrations, integrations and automations.



Competence with licence management and reporting; comfortable working with usage and activation metrics.



Strong client-facing skills with the ability to sell and tailor cloud solutions.



Experience coaching and training colleagues.



Good numerical and data-handling skills; comfortable interpreting complex data.



Minimum qualification: AAT Level 2 or equivalent; ACCA/ACA or similar desirable.



Desirable skills



Experience with Project Management and project delivery.



Experience with CCH covering Practice Management, Document Management, Accounts Production, Tax (PT/CT) and Oneclick.




Additional Requirements

Behaviours and competencies



Analytical and pragmatic; delivers practical technical solutions.



Client and service oriented; focuses on measurable business outcomes.



Collaborative across multi-disciplinary teams and external vendors.



Coaching mindset; enjoys developing others and building regional capability.



Quality and risk aware; meticulous about data integrity, security and compliance.



Change agent; comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and driving adoption.



Curious; exploring new ways and thinking to situations to challenge the status quo.




Model

Hybrid




Salary

Competitive




Benefits

Benefits

• Company Pension Scheme

• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays

• Additional annual leave days from certain levels of seniority

• Ability to buy up to 5 days of annual leave to reach a maximum of 30 days per annum

• Business closure over Christmas*

• Life Assurance x4 annual salary

• Enhanced family leave policies

• Enhanced Company Sick Pay

• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 support, free and confidential

• Corporate Discounts Platform



Flexible Benefits platform with ability to opt-in to various insurances (level of seniority dependent & self-funded at corporate rates) such as:

• PMI single or family

• Critical Illness Cover

• Cash plan

• Cycle to work

• Eye care

• Dental

*subject to exceptions and business needs