Implementation Consultant - Accounting or Financial solutions

Super job for an Implementation Consultant or Professional Services Consultant, who has experience with implementing accounting / finance software or the accounting modules of ERP software. If you are an ERP Consultant, then as a minimum, you need to know enough about the financials, accounting, and sales order processing side of ERP to be able to take requirements from a CFO or finance director and understand enough to steer them towards the ideal solution.

You will work in all stages of SaaS implementation projects including some pre-sales, through to installation of the software. You need to have a broad view of business accounting and a strong understanding of your clients' needs. They offer flexible home working, 2-3 days a week, travel to client sites will be required, plus a couple of days a week in the office if not out on client site. Starting salary to £50k, plus £5k car allowance and benefits.

Excellent functional consulting skills and business process understanding is essential, and the ability to get to grips with the clients' accounting requirements, and you should be capable of handling your own software implementations through the life cycle, including project planning, requirements gathering, statements of work, software configuration, and overseeing the clients' adoption and training before implementation. You are an excellent communicator, who develops and builds strong relationships and can empathise with your customers.

WHY THIS IS A GREAT JOB

• As an Implementation Consultant you will run your own projects, with a lot of autonomy
• Their solution is superb, it has great functionality, it is neat, up to date and pretty
• This is the market leading solution in their specialist sector, when clients get it, they love it straight away, (the competition is all legacy software)
• Lots of variety, clients range from 2-3 in an office to a 100+ person company
• The business is very profitable, very successful and well run
• Staff like working here, zero staff turnover
• Growing company with good career opportunities
• Good people, decent honest people

The last Consultant they hired had a broad range of software skills and methodologies, which has brought a whole new perspective to the consulting team and new ideas. So if you have a mix of software solutions and / or methods, and an open mind, this would be a bonus.

Your profile:

• Experienced ERP Software Implementation Consultant with Accounting / Finance modules or a Finance Consultant
• Able to run your own software implementations
• Strong analysis and understanding of business processes
• A clear communicator with strength of character and able to empathise with clients
• Experience in training users and handling their change management issues
• Ideally you've worked with a few different solutions and can bring ideas
• Accounting qualifications would be a bonus

This company has been implementing specialist ERP software solutions for many years and knows that a good software solution is vital for their customers' profitability. They provide a best-of-breed product and can provide you with challenging, interesting and diverse projects.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Accounting or ERP Consultant to grow into this role and have a lot of personal input into shaping the job. Contact Jake King or Carolyn MacLurg at Ambis Resourcing to find out more