Sr Consultant - IT Advisory - BI/ERP

Employer: Leading Consulting Firm

Location: Qatar (With some potential travel to broader GCC region)

Qualification: Chartered Accountant / CPA / CFA

Experience:

- 4-9 years relevant experience. Clear implementation experience of ERP ( Oracle-Finance modules) (2-3 full life cycle implementations)

- Formulating IT strategies and determine performance of IT organisations

- Definition of architecture solutions and architecture models

- Knowledge of architecture methodologies, standards, frameworks and tools

- Experienced in ERP solutions and implementations. Capable of executing IT Led financial transformation programs like BI/ERP implementation, Quality assurance and Project management of IT projects

- Advisor to clients for all accounting/financials practices across various processes like procure to pay, Acquire to Retire, Order to cash, record to report, budgeting, Consolidation etc

- Knowledge of IFRS and SOX

- Strong awareness of current / future technology trends (e.g. digital, cloud, virtualization, big-data)

- Understanding and experience across the systems implementation lifecycle

- Development of strategies, roadmaps and transformation

- Vendor or technology selection and procurement

- Providing clients with advice and guidance on solution design and implementation

- Working in close partnership with technical teams and business stakeholders at all levels to align IT to business needs

Key Responsibilities:

- Take responsibility for (and where appropriate lead) activities within multiple engagement types spanning a broad IT advisory spectrum

- Identify client needs and support the development of the commercial proposal to meet their business requirements

- Provide client teams with a point of contact for project delivery

- Utilise proven project management tools and processes to ensure project quality / control

- Plan, estimate, manage and deliver to time and budget one or more elements of major projects or, small projects entirely (possibly with multiple clients), to realise maximum benefit for a client with minimised risk

- Manage and deliver the direction, priorities, scope and plan for key elements of (multiple) project(s) or, small projects entirely, potentially including a number of 3rd parties, to realise maximum benefit for a client

- Identify, analyse, mitigate and proactively respond to project, financial and operational risks; both real and anticipated

- Sustain an environment that facilitates high performance and motivates individuals to work collaboratively as a team to achieve project / team goals to realise value for a client

- Manage the tracking and reporting on key solution delivery metrics for one or more projects

- Communicate project status effectively and appropriately to convey key messages and escalate issues as appropriate

- Recognise, support and capitalise on individual differences in work-styles, personalities, cultures and values to maximise team performance and effectively achieve personal and team goals.

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