Specific Responsibilities:
The incumbent will carry out the following functional areas:
- Lead and focus on product delivery for clients across the globe
- Collaborate with global business stakeholders/partners to understand their finance related requirements and translate them into functional specification including country compliance for the ERP system
- Participate in system implementation projects, working closely with technical teams, manager and end users to ensure successful delivery of the product
- Conduct comprehensive testing of the EPR testing including unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing to ensure quality and accuracy of the finance modules
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to integrate the finance modules with other ERP modules and external system, ensuring data integrity and consistency
- Provide partner training and support, addressing inquiries , resolving issues and optimizing system utilization for finance processes
- Document functional specification, configurations, and processes related to the finance modules, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business user needs to create technical solutions that support overall business strategies
- Identify the gaps and automate all financial entries by integrating Account, Inventory, procurement, asset management module with operational modules.
- Develop financial models, conduct benchmarking, and process analysis.
- Work with business stakeholders to document information system requirements, including process workflows, storyboarding and diagrams, define scope and objectives
- Identify specific business opportunities and develop new capabilities for ERP system
- Evaluate current ERP systems and practices, drive continuous improvement of business processes
- Supports the current and future development and enhancement of ERP systems to meet the product requirements in terms of automation of processes.
- Support business transformation activities involving any combination of processes, people or systems (e.g. organizational integration; business change impact; process re-engineering; system evaluation / comparison).
- Understand and use automation to increase business value through improved efficiency of processes and applying modern digital techniques
- Carries out market analysis of ERP solutions and stays up-to-date with the latest trends in ERP software and vendors in the region and beyond. Acts as the ERP business and system expert for the organization to provide the necessary guidance to teams on ways to optimize utilization of ERP systems.
Position Requirements:
Professional Qualifications:
- 5+ years’ related experience in ERP system in any industry with implementation and support of ERP applications; developing specification for business requirement and providing user support
- Proven experience as an ERP Finance functional consultant or business analyst working with finance modules of ERP system
- Solid experience in Accounts, Inventory, Procurement, Fixed Assets is FUNDAMENTAL
- Solid understanding of integration between finance modules and other ERP modules and ability to troubleshoot integration issues
- Must have experience how to automate the financial entries from other operational modules
- Experience in coaching and supervising other business analysts, IT staff and business subject matter experts.
- In-depth and detailed knowledge in user/functional environment, leading ERP systems and specific software applications relating to different business units.
- Multi-tasking skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities and keep up with project scope changes.
- Fluency in written and spoken English with strong drafting skills.
- Skilled in MS Office Suite, MS Visio, Storyboarding
- Very good written and verbal communication
Education:
- Bachelor's or Master degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject.
- Project Management certification (PMP or Prince II) a PLUS
Key Working Relationships:
Supervisory:
Internal: All staff
External:
Task Competencies:
· Accountability — Job requires clearly defining mutual expectations of self and others, taking appropriate actions to ensure that obligations are met and revising standards in response to change
· Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
· Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
· Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
· Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
· Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
· Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
· Focus on Quality — Job requires operating with world-wide quality performance standards and best practices.
· Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
· Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges
· Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
· Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
· Promotes Self-Learning — Job requires mobilization of all knowledge present in an organization, even when acquired outside through self-learning.
· Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
· Learning - Job requires dedication to continuous learning and self-improvement, and aggressively undertaking activities to enrich intellect, to build new skills, and to polish existing skills.
Personal Competencies:
· Demonstrated strengths in ERP application management with a strong client service focus;
· Ability to switch between operational and strategic tasks
· Ability to use logic and reason to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions;
· Ability to identify complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work smoothly in a multi-cultural environment while building good teamwork spirit.
- Ability to communicate sensitively and effectively across different constituencies.
- High tolerance rate for working under pressure and dealing with diversified cultures and tense situations.
· Communicative and dynamic/skilled in obtaining information from staff and/or external clients and potential ones as necessary to accomplish duties.
Physical Requirements/Environment:
· 5 working days from Sunday to Thursday
· Work shifts might be requested on holidays.
· Normal conditions of an office environment.
· Position requires flexibility and the capacity to deal with ambiguity and change until regional systems and standards are in place.
Job Type: Full-time
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Alexandria: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)