Finance Systems Accountant

Finance Systems Accountant Cambridge, UK | Full-time | FTC - 12 months | Hybrid Salary: £65,000 to £75,000 DOE The salary range for this role is broad, as we are able to consider varying levels of experience. Any offer made will carefully take into account level of experience (including relevant industry experience), transferable relevant skills and previous relevant achievements. About us Riverlane’s mission is to master quantum error correction (QEC) and unlock a new age of human progress. From advances in material and climate science, to complex chemistry simulation for new drug design, quantum computers will help humanity solve some of its most important challenges. But without QEC, the industry’s defining technical challenge, such breakthroughs can never be achieved. Riverlane is the world leader in QEC technology. QEC is a complex problem that requires a range of skills, talent and passion. Having raised more than $125M in funding to date to accelerate our cutting-edge R&D in quantum error correction (QEC), Riverlane partners with many of the world’s leading quantum hardware providers and government agencies to make fault-tolerant quantum computing a reality. We’re making remarkable progress and growing fast. About the role As we scale and strengthen our financial control environment, we are transforming our finance and business systems — including a NetSuite implementation delivered to PCAOB and SOX 404(a) standards, alongside the wider platform landscape (including CRM, stock administration, AP, treasury, FP&A and BI) and their integrations. Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the Finance Systems Accountant is the finance-side expert who makes this happen. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role for a qualified accountant who will spend all of their time on our finance business systems. Your job is to do the analysis and legwork that facilitates good decisions from key stakeholders, and then to execute those decisions into the platforms. A key part of the role is enabling successful implementations through high-quality data set-up, including data migration, and strong stakeholder management throughout. What you will do • Gather and document business-platform requirements from across the organisation, so decisions are well-informed • Develop business-platform architecture options and evaluate the technology stack against Riverlane’s objectives, presenting clear recommendations for stakeholders to decide • Build implementation plans and a sequenced systems roadmap for stakeholder agreement, balancing priorities, bandwidth and the external audit timetable • Run the process to identify and evaluate third-party implementation partners, and make recommendations — the appointment decision sits with stakeholders • Lead the internal finance work on implementations — requirements, chart-of-accounts and data-model design, master data, data migration, configuration input, testing and acceptance — coordinating the chosen implementation partners • Set up and migrate high-quality data — a key enabler of every implementation. Own the finance-side data workstream: defining data requirements and standards, cleansing and validating source data, mapping and reconciling it, and planning and running data migration and post-migration checks, so each system goes live on complete, accurate, well-structured data. • Deliver the NetSuite implementation to PCAOB and SOX 404(a) standards, ensuring the platforms produce auditable, well-controlled outputs; work closely with our internal-controls specialist, who designs the controls, to execute those designs into the systems • Own systems change management — documenting process and configuration changes, securing the appropriate approvals, and maintaining a clear audit trail (