A job with a mix of Finance and IT

contracteur · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:27

Systems accountant?

Learn SAP, earn $$$.

sigma · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:29

contracteur said:
Systems accountant?

Learn SAP, earn $$$.

Not £££?

contracteur · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:30

I would have used euros but i can't find it on my bloody keyboard

sigma · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:33

Is SAP lucrative then?

I've used it very, very briefly but only as an end-user when withdrawing items from stores.

contracteur · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:36

There's a large number of independents in the market but SAP is pretty pervasive for the whole financial & logistics sides of things, so rates are still pretty good.

I'm not involved with SAP myself however, I work with a mid-market equivalent called Agresso.

gobbo · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:49

SAP is very lucrative, but you have to be specific in which area of SAP you want to work due to the size of the modules although a general background in finance/VAT/accountancy will see you well (obviously not for the manufacturing modules like production scheduling and warehouse management)

We use SAP for our entire ERP backend including warehouse management, financial, production scheduling etc, we are a mid size deployment and have 4 full time SAP developers and use consultancy regularly, from the people we use they have always said there is a high demand for their services.

Souleh · 9 Oct 2011 at 22:14

Currently working for a SAP consultancy company specializing in GRC & Security.

If you can get into the industry and are willing to work, travel and work some more then its a great job.

Plenty of oppertunities to earn big money and play buzzword bingo along the way!

sigma · 9 Oct 2011 at 22:44

I guess the hardest part is finding these opportunities, especially with virtually no experience, it's not exactly a package you can purchase for home use to play about with either.

I'd be more interested in the financial side rather than programming though, really not keen on programming, can only do the basics really.

dowie · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:13

sigma said:
I guess the hardest part is finding these opportunities, especially virtually with no experience, it's not exactly a package you can purchase for home use to play about with either.

Tis the case with most financial software. Simple solution to get experience - get a job at a vendor.

Bobsguide is a useful resource

sigma · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:27

Thanks.

Still a while before I am properly looking but no harm in having a nose to see what's about.

HangTime · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:51

Mr^B said:
That's not really IT and Finance, that's just IT Project Management for some bits and Business Analysis for some of the others. You won't be able to do that straight from education, you'll need to get some experience under your belt first, probably by taking part in projects on the development/implementation side.

As mentioned if you want to be earning £50k+ you will need to learn the ropes first managing smaller projects. Financial institutions are not going to sign you up on megabucks straight away but you could have it as a goal.

Souleh · 10 Oct 2011 at 00:02

sigma said:
I guess the hardest part is finding these opportunities, especially virtually with no experience, it's not exactly a package you can purchase for home use to play about with either.

I'd be more interested in the financial side rather than programming though, really not keen on programming, can only do the basics really.

SAP is very financial though. Most people I deal with are financial controllers and risk managers.

To be a programmer you'd need years of training as a BASIS admin and its not C++ or Java but their own ABAP language.

The founding director of my company started off as an accountant too.

UK-AL05 · 10 Oct 2011 at 00:11

Finance + I.T = ERP/SAP implementations.

There's a few companies that take on cs grads for SAP, not going to tell you who they are though. I'm applying soon =P

Souleh · 10 Oct 2011 at 00:35

Best of luck, youll be firing in transactions and playing with roles before you know it.

Im working for a leading SAP partner, feel free to PM me who you are applying for, could be applying for my company for all I know

kolala · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:40

contracteur said:
I would have used euros but i can't find it on my bloody keyboard

try Alt Gr and 4 (or alt and 0128 on the numeric keypad)
knowing this will help in finance and IT

€

contracteur · 10 Oct 2011 at 03:22

UK-AL05 said:
Finance + I.T = ERP/SAP implementations.

There's a few companies that take on cs grads for SAP, not going to tell you who they are though. I'm applying soon =P

Hmm, I wouldn't say ERP is always used in Finance, there are a lot of firms using just accounting software such as CODA and Sage, and a lot of ERP software did start out as accounting-only software.

Also, Finance is but one facet of "true" ERP which encompasses CRM, service management and a bunch of other things.

EDIT:

kolala said:
try Alt Gr and 4 (or alt and 0128 on the numeric keypad)
knowing this will help in finance and IT

€

And thanks! € Woo!

Hamish · 10 Oct 2011 at 08:14

sigma said:
I guess the hardest part is finding these opportunities, especially virtually with no experience, it's not exactly a package you can purchase for home use to play about with either.

I'd be more interested in the financial side rather than programming though, really not keen on programming, can only do the basics really.

You'd be surprised, a lot of people want to get into the sexy side of IT - Web Design and Computer Games and don't even bother trying to get into Finance.
I wouldn't say you had to have anything special to get into one of the big Financial IT Software Companies, just a decent degree and a bit of drive.