Platform Manager (Business Systems)
| Posting date: | 22 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £51,685 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REC006359 |
Summary
AAT is the UK’s leading qualification and professional membership body for vocational accountants. We pride ourselves on providing practical qualifications that meet the needs of both employers and employees.
Term: Permanent
Location: We have hybrid working in place, with 1-2 days per week, in our office in Canary Wharf.
Are you passionate about leading business-critical platforms and driving innovation? Do you have deep expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (F&O and CRM) and a strong track record of managing releases, integrations, and continuous improvement? If so, we want to hear from you!
Why Join Us?
At AAT, we’re on a mission to empower the future of accounting through innovative digital platforms. As a Platform Manager (Business Systems), you’ll be at the forefront of this transformation, driving the end-to-end management, optimisation, and continuous improvement of our critical business systems, including the Dynamics 365 portfolio. If you’re a strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and leadership experience, this is your opportunity to make an impact.
What exactly will you be doing?
As Platform Manager (Business Systems) at AAT, you will be responsible for:
Leading the management and improvement of AAT’s critical business systems, with a primary focus on Dynamics 365 F&O and CRM.
Developing and maintaining the Technical Strategy for Dynamics 365, CRM, and associated services, ensuring alignment with AAT’s 2030 goals.
Overseeing the release management lifecycle across multiple environments, ensuring robust testing, support processes, and platform resilience.
Driving process optimisation and working closely with other platform managers and cross-functional teams to refine business processes for maximum efficiency, identifying and positively exploiting our technology landscape to deliver real business benefits.
Working with a team of Test Analysts, Financial Systems Analysts, and Change Leads, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.
Managing vendor relationships and contract negotiations, ensuring external service providers meet AAT’s service level agreements.
Keeping up with the latest industry trends through horizon scanning, ensuring AAT’s systems remain at the cutting edge of technology.
What are we looking for?
To be successful in this role, you should have:
Deep technical expertise in Dynamics 365 and the broader Microsoft ecosystem, including finance, operations, and CRM modules.
Proven experience in release management, deployment processes, and system integration.
Strong understanding of financial and business systems, with the ability to manage and optimise them to meet organisational needs.
Experience in managing complex technical projects and leading teams of specialists.
Leadership skills with the ability to mentor and develop your team to reach their full potential.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
Vendor management experience, including contract negotiation and ensuring third-party providers meet service expectations.
Strong problem-solving abilities, particularly in complex technical environments with a focus on risk management and compliance.
Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies to manage iterative development and releases.
What are the benefits?
At AAT we believe in treating our staff well and this is reflected in our wide-ranging benefits, which include:
Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our London office) and opportunities for further flexible working.
25 days’ annual leave with the opportunity to buy and sell, increasing one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays.
Great pension scheme whereby AAT will contribute up to 10.15%, life assurance and critical illness cover.
Health cash plan.
Regular wellbeing initiatives.
Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave contributions of up to 6 months’ full pay depending on the length of service.
Closing Date: The planned closing date for this role is 05 August 2025 at 17:00, however, we reserve the right to close the role earlier than planned.
It’s an exciting time to join AAT and we would love you to join us on our journey. In 2023 we achieved one-star company status in the Best Companies survey, and we have recently launched our strategy to 2030.
We are committed to being an inclusive and welcoming place to work. We encourage applications from diverse candidates and make recruitment decisions based on skill and experience. We have a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Champions group, which leads on our D&I strategy and organise events to celebrate and raise awareness. We are a disability-confident committed employer and have signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We have also signed up for the Women in Finance Charter, and in 2022 we exceeded our target for appointing females into senior positions.
Come and help us to make AAT an even better place to work!
Interested?
To apply, please complete your application form and upload your CV.
Term: Permanent
Location: We have hybrid working in place, with 1-2 days per week, in our office in Canary Wharf.
Are you passionate about leading business-critical platforms and driving innovation? Do you have deep expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (F&O and CRM) and a strong track record of managing releases, integrations, and continuous improvement? If so, we want to hear from you!
Why Join Us?
At AAT, we’re on a mission to empower the future of accounting through innovative digital platforms. As a Platform Manager (Business Systems), you’ll be at the forefront of this transformation, driving the end-to-end management, optimisation, and continuous improvement of our critical business systems, including the Dynamics 365 portfolio. If you’re a strategic thinker with deep technical expertise and leadership experience, this is your opportunity to make an impact.
What exactly will you be doing?
As Platform Manager (Business Systems) at AAT, you will be responsible for:
Leading the management and improvement of AAT’s critical business systems, with a primary focus on Dynamics 365 F&O and CRM.
Developing and maintaining the Technical Strategy for Dynamics 365, CRM, and associated services, ensuring alignment with AAT’s 2030 goals.
Overseeing the release management lifecycle across multiple environments, ensuring robust testing, support processes, and platform resilience.
Driving process optimisation and working closely with other platform managers and cross-functional teams to refine business processes for maximum efficiency, identifying and positively exploiting our technology landscape to deliver real business benefits.
Working with a team of Test Analysts, Financial Systems Analysts, and Change Leads, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.
Managing vendor relationships and contract negotiations, ensuring external service providers meet AAT’s service level agreements.
Keeping up with the latest industry trends through horizon scanning, ensuring AAT’s systems remain at the cutting edge of technology.
What are we looking for?
To be successful in this role, you should have:
Deep technical expertise in Dynamics 365 and the broader Microsoft ecosystem, including finance, operations, and CRM modules.
Proven experience in release management, deployment processes, and system integration.
Strong understanding of financial and business systems, with the ability to manage and optimise them to meet organisational needs.
Experience in managing complex technical projects and leading teams of specialists.
Leadership skills with the ability to mentor and develop your team to reach their full potential.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
Vendor management experience, including contract negotiation and ensuring third-party providers meet service expectations.
Strong problem-solving abilities, particularly in complex technical environments with a focus on risk management and compliance.
Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies to manage iterative development and releases.
What are the benefits?
At AAT we believe in treating our staff well and this is reflected in our wide-ranging benefits, which include:
Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our London office) and opportunities for further flexible working.
25 days’ annual leave with the opportunity to buy and sell, increasing one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays.
Great pension scheme whereby AAT will contribute up to 10.15%, life assurance and critical illness cover.
Health cash plan.
Regular wellbeing initiatives.
Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave contributions of up to 6 months’ full pay depending on the length of service.
Closing Date: The planned closing date for this role is 05 August 2025 at 17:00, however, we reserve the right to close the role earlier than planned.
It’s an exciting time to join AAT and we would love you to join us on our journey. In 2023 we achieved one-star company status in the Best Companies survey, and we have recently launched our strategy to 2030.
We are committed to being an inclusive and welcoming place to work. We encourage applications from diverse candidates and make recruitment decisions based on skill and experience. We have a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Champions group, which leads on our D&I strategy and organise events to celebrate and raise awareness. We are a disability-confident committed employer and have signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We have also signed up for the Women in Finance Charter, and in 2022 we exceeded our target for appointing females into senior positions.
Come and help us to make AAT an even better place to work!
Interested?
To apply, please complete your application form and upload your CV.