Full Time / Contract: Contract
Start Date: asap
Duration: 3months to 6 months
Assignment Description/Skill Set Required
JD Edwards Financial Consultant needed for contract work in Dubai and surrounding area to provide post-sales consulting, project management and training and to provide pre-sale products marketing presentations
The candidate will participate in business process analysis workshops in client-facing roles, understand client's business processes, and capture requirements and assist lead in analyzing requirements.
· The candidate will be responsible as a team member for configuring the software for client's business processes. The candidate should be familiar with software configuration tools and should demonstrate the ability to effectively use them in software configuration.
· The candidate will be responsible for identifying gaps in the standard functionality and suggest alternative options to the client and help the team lead arriving at the most effective alternative. The candidate will be responsible for initiating change requests for any system/configuration changes for projects related to remote system maintenance and support.
· The candidate will follow client/organization-specific methodologies for process compliance and software quality assurance for software configuration, testing, and support.
· Defines project specific templates.
· Leads requirement gathering.
· Analyzes change request, does impact analysis and provides estimation as per Estimation Guidelines. Does scope / resource planning accordingly.
· Proactively monitors any SLA violations. Does the analysis of these cases along with module leads and communicates to client / program manager.
· Prepares, guides and ensures that team follows the specifications / standards / guidelines / design.
· Reviews the specifications, documentation and also gets it approved by team lead / Client
· Recommends best method and tools to improve process.
· Maintaining records/ documents as required, accuracy of data, generating reports on time.
· Helps in preparing configuration management plan, identifying configurable items.
· Reviews test scripts, test cases.
· Ability to provide estimates based on inputs (requirement docs / functional specs.), Participates & contributes in estimation with his/her technical expertise
Required:
- At least 5-10 years experience in implementing OneWorld or EnterpriseOne (preferably recent 8.12 or 9.0 version level) software solutions
- Financials (General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivables, Fixed Assets, Multi-Currency, Budgets, Advanced Cost Accounting, etc.)
- Projects (Job Cost, Work Order Management, Contract & Service Billing, etc.)
- IFRS knowledge with JD Edwards implementation experience is highly desirable
- Full-cycle implementations and also upgrades of EnterpriseOne upgrades is mandatory
- J.D. Edwards World implementation experience is an asset
- Excellent communication skills (bilingual is an asset)
- CA or CGA designation with University degree is preferred
- A self starter able to handle multiple concurrent implementations
- Solid financial, business background is required and industry vertical knowledge sought as well