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Implementation Consultant- Cloud Financials
Bristol based role. Salary between 40- 50K base, plus comprehensive benefits.
Hybridrole, 3 days in the office, 2 from home plus some customer site travel as required.
You will have the chance to work for a hugely successful international software company at an exciting time of growth. This is the perfect opportunity for an existing consultant or accountant looking to get into consultancy.
My client is a leading provider of cloud ERP/Finance solutions. They offer an amazing working environment and take pride in putting their staff first.
The role
This exciting role comes with the opportunity for extensive customer-facing work across consulting, project management and potentially presales. You will be an Implementation Consultant with a strong business understanding and a passion for new technology, looking to join a friendly, professional, and dynamic team.
You will join a team of experienced implementation consultants to manage the implementation of financials software for customers, interacting with multiple stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams to provide high-quality training, guidance, and expertise. You will be a qualified or part qualified accountant with a track record of delivering successful ERP implementations and managing system integrations. Thriving on new challenges and working in a dynamic working environment, you will be a team player in an environment where colleagues support each other.
Main responsibilities
- Acquiring an in-depth knowledge of the product
- Managing the implementation of financials software for new customers
- Ensuring implementations follow best practice, helping customers streamline their business processes
- Driving implementation projects to deliver measurable business benefits as identified in the pre-sales process
- Managing third party relationships
- Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and within scope
- Reporting to the Consulting Manager or a senior member of the Management Team, submitting weekly timesheets and 15Five feedback
- Providing customer training, including new starters and interns where required
- Running implementation workshops
- Intermittent testing of new releases
- Input into development priorities, in particular relation to UK-specific accounting requirements
- Assisting with presales
Essential qualifications and experience
- Part qualified accountant (AAT, ACCA, ICAEW or CIMA)
- Practical experience in one or more of the following business areas: Management and financial accounting; project accounting & billing; multi-currency reporting, multi-company accounting and consolidation; purchasing, stock accounting and ordering
- Strong understanding of basic business processes
- Strong IT technical skills and understanding
- Full UK driving licence
Desired qualifications and experience
- Fully qualified accountant (AAT, ACCA, ICAEW or CIMA)
- Practical experience in all of the above mentioned business areas
- Experience of implementing ERP/Finance systems such as, AccountsIQ, Iplicit, Microsoft Dynamics, Netsuite, Oracle, SAP Busines One, Sage 200 Unit4 ERP / Agresso, or other finance systems, whether as an external consultant or from the customer side
Personal characteristics:
- Self-motivated with the ability to motivate themselves and others
- Service-minded and solution focused
- Responsible and reliable
- Accurate and structured
- Ability to work both independently and in teams
- Flexibility and the willingness to learn
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Fluent written and spoken business English
