Systems Administrator

Astroscale UK is seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a Systems Administrator – SAP. This newly created role will be essential in supporting our organisation, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of our SAP system across the business. You’ll be developing yourself as a subject-matter-expert (SME) to the wider business as we implement and transition to business as usual with SAP Business by Design, and support across the UK entity with training and support to different teams as needed.

Responsibilities 

 

• Support the UK business cross functionally (finance, projects, inventory, procurement, and others) to use SAP Business by Design, maintaining and configuring user access, creating suitable business roles and approval flows as needed.
• Supporting the maintenance of Master data in SAP working with data owners to ensure  integrity. Support the integration of SAP with other key systems such as Salesforce and PLM.
• Manage the resolutions of business and technical queries using your role as a subject matter expert in SAP to find the most effective solution.
  
• Responsible for reviewing and maintaining process and systems training material.
• Identifying  improvement projects for users and system configuration changes which will result in working efficiencies.
• Dealing with requests for information from users by designing reports and dashboards to improve user visibility of the data held in the SAP database.
• Support the rollout of further SAP modules as the business expands.

Essential Skills

 

• Strong knowledge and experience in Finance systems, specifically SAP Business by Design.
• Resourceful, self-managed, and goal driven with the ability to work effectively in teams and to fixed deadlines to meet business requirements.
• Inter-personal skills with an ability to quickly establish effective working relationships across geographical and cultural borders.
• Organised with a good attention to detail.
• Experience with/an understanding of Finance IT systems, specifically SAP Business by Design.
• Strong experience within Microsoft Excel, and broader packages

Desirable skills

• Experience in Power BI and other Finance systems
• Experience in a manufacturing environment

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Opportunity to work with a highly talented, diverse & dynamic international team with cutting edge technology
• Flexible working around core hours in a friendly and supportive environment
• Hybrid working available (dependent on individual role requirements)
• 25 days holiday (increasing yearly up to a maximum of 28 days) + 8 days Bank Holiday
• Optional 9/75 working pattern
• Life insurance and long-term sick pay
• Private healthcare (taxable benefit)
• Relocation allowance
  
• New state of the art office and cleanroom facility
• Regular social events 

Location

Astroscale UK (Harwell)

About Astroscale

We aim to deliver cutting edge technologies that will become part of routine commercial space operations by 2030.

Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company dedicated to in-orbit servicing across all orbits. Founded in 2013, we are developing innovative and scalable solutions across the spectrum of in-orbit servicing missions, including End of Life services, Active Debris Removal, In-situ Space Situational Awareness and Life Extension Services, to create sustainable space systems and mitigate against the hazardous build-up of debris in space.

Astroscale is an Equal Opportunities employer and embraces a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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