ERP Functional Accounting Analyst/SME

California  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Enclipse Corporation has an opportunity for an experienced ERP functional consultant to work with our customer's Financial Services branch, following their implementation of an SAP system, named Business Direct (BD).

We are in need of an accounting system advisor and business analyst to assist in process documentation, business analysis and best practice applications to stabilize processing, and recommend process enhancements, including technical enhancements. Follow-on work may include assistance in developing a cost accounting methodology and assistance with the new pension solution implementation business analysis.

This is an on-site consulting opportunity in Sacramento.

In addition, the SME will serve as a liaison between the Financial Services branch business area representatives and various enterprise business transformation project teams on topics related to pension, administrative, cost accounting and related data conversions and system interfaces to BusinessDirect to ensure interactions and dependencies between initiatives are identified and addressed.

In concert with the Financial Services branch staff and management, the SME will:

  • Compare current business practices with the functionality available in BusinessDirect (BD) and modify existing business procedures, or develop new procedures to optimize the functionality provided.

  • Document the new and updated business processes and provide guidance and training as needed.

  • Assist with the maintenance and management of the BD Month-End, Quarter-End, and Year-End Closing Procedures.

  • Assist with the development and rollout of communication for changes to business processes.

  • Identify, analyze and find solutions to obstacles that impede the integration of BD into the business practices.

  • Assist with the establishment of requirements for interfaces/interactions between BD and other planned and productive systems.

  • Assist with the research and analysis of detailed Financial Services branch business requirements for enterprise business transformation projects.

  • Lead meetings with stakeholders and team members.

Minimum Qualifications

The candidate must:

  • Have a college degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems or a related field.

  • Have 10 years' experience providing fiscal and technical consulting to clients; 5 years of experience must be in the public sector.

  • Have expert level skills in MS Office products, including MS Access, demonstrated by a description of two work products.

  • Have 3 years functional experience working with a large scale enterprise resource planning system such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials, or Lawson.

  • Have proficiency in written and oral communication as demonstrated by a writing sample.

Desirable Qualifications

It is highly desirable for the candidate to have the following listed experience, knowledge, skills and abilities:

  • Ability to prepare comprehensive reports and compile manuals of accounting procedures

  • Ability to analyze data and draw sound conclusions

  • Ability to speak and write effectively

  • Ability to analyze situations accurately and adopt an effective course of action.

It is desirable for the proposed project person to have the following listed experience, knowledge, skills and abilities:

  • Knowledge of and experience with accounting principles and practices; governmental accounting, budgeting, and fiscal management;

  • Knowledge of and experience with uniform accounting systems and financial organization and procedures of the State of California

  • Knowledge of and experience with principles of organization, administration, and management; administrative survey principles and techniques to the analysis and development of accounting and financial organization, procedures

  • Knowledge of and experience with statistical methods

  • Knowledge of and experience with procedures of automatic data processing systems

  • Ability to apply administrative principles and techniques to the analysis and development of accounting and financial organization procedures.

Start date
October 20, 2014
Duration
1 year+
(extension possible)
From
Enclipse Corp.
Published at
17.09.2014
Project ID:
776196
Contract type
Freelance
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