Description
My London based client is looking for a Business Systems Consultant to join their team ASAP.
The ideal candidate will match the requirements listed below.
The Role:
Business Systems Consultants draw together a deep functional understanding of (and passion for) the business, customer needs and organisational success along with engagement in the technologies supporting its aims. This is a technical role best fulfilled when the consultant can build and apply their own technical skills alongside requirement and solution perspectives.
As Business Systems Consultant (Finance Specialist) you are primarily responsible for leading IT's development and support of processes and business applications that support our Finance teams.
Main responsibilities and functions:
Reporting to the IT Programme Director, you will be responsible for:
- Engaging with business stakeholders, predominantly in Finance teams, to represent the operational and managerial requirements of teams handling financial operations around the organisation.
- Contributing toward key transformational projects and ensuring completeness and effectiveness of requirement collation, specification, implementation and adoption.
- Managing the business applications required by our finance teams to operate; namely:
o Microsoft Great Plains
o Basware
- A number of bespoke smaller applications for managing specific finance processes
- Managing the reporting tools and underlying database used by our finance team for financial and operational reporting o Maintaining and developing reports using MS SQL query language
- Leading business analysis into further development of these applications
- Providing third line support to these applications and leading liaison with third parties responsible for support where relevant
- Ensuring processes and applications are clearly documented
Secondary responsibilities:
- Leading on identifying key areas for innovation and new capabilities in business processes and related systems, including:
- Identifying, analysing and executing on opportunities through increased automation and/or digitised solutions to increase operational efficiencies.
- Creating and reviewing processes, systems and data structures to ensure optimum efficiency and accuracy.
o Producing relevant specifications to ensure process and development requests are understood by stakeholders and clear and workable for consideration by internal developers or external partners. Working closely with our development and operations team in the delivery of projects.
- Working closely with other departments to ensure procedures support statutory requirements and best practice across the business.
- Working with Business Systems team to deliver key infrastructure projects in line with Business Development roadmaps.
- Proactively identifying and removing technical debt from IT and business processes to ensure operational work is reduced in favour of innovation effort.
- Adopting an Agile approach towards project management, including both Scrum and Kanban approaches, and manage all project and business as usual work through Jira project management software.
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will be expected to have:
- Significant experience with ERP finance systems (Great Plains highly desirable)
- Significant experience with end-to-end finance processes beyond core ERP tools
- Experience using SQL query languages to build and maintain reports and support business applications at the database layer (VBA also beneficial)
- Experience with business process adoption management in a KPI driven environment
- Experience in leading other developers or development teams in building solutions
- Confidence working with tools with weak supporting documentation and capability to create and maintain documentation where required
- Strong communication skills o ability to communicate technical requirements and solution design to other technical team members o ability to communicate technical requirements and concepts to non-technical stakeholders, o liaising with stakeholders at all levels, with a passion and aptitude for developing relationships and managing expectations
- Strong process analytics ability to derive qualified business requirements from initial requests and issues
- Strong decision-making skills and a track record of balancing ambition with pragmatism
- Appreciation of an Agile approach towards project management, including both Scrum and Kanban approaches, and experience in managing all project and business as usual work through project management software.
If you feel you are right for the role then please APPLY NOW!