Global Systems Functional Consultant - London, United Kingdom - KANTAR

KANTAR

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London, United Kingdom

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Why this job is important

This role is a development opportunity for an enthusiastic finance specialist looking to combine their financial knowledge with technology within Kantar.

We are seeking an individual to work alongside our implementation partner (Cognizant), Business Stakeholders and Super Users to bridge the gap between our business needs and the ERP systems team.

The ERP Functional Consultant will build strong product knowledge (Maconomy and other ERP's), often in a specialist area of the solution, and will understand the product on a technical level, its limitations, and how to take advantage of standard functionality.

It's this technical knowledge that sets a Functional Consultant apart, allowing them to best advise the business on the right solution to meet their needs while keeping global standard solutions front and centre.

You will be delivering functional and technical support and solutions for the business as 1st and 2nd line design, configuration, and delivery to meet business needs post the upgrade of the current solution.

The role will investigate new capabilities in the solution and bring solutions options to the business that would address needs or build efficiencies.

What you'll be doing

Being a trusted partner, able to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Write detailed user stories (Requirements) that both the business and developers can understand, collaborating closely with global partners including Senior Financial Controllers
Facilitating workshops with the business and technology teams
Building design with the solutions team and vendors, ensuring project deliverables meet business expectations
Conduct training to business users as necessary to ensure solution is used appropriately, developing training materials for our business
Ensuring end to end lifecycle of realising the user stories (Requirements, Design, Test, Train, Deploy), developing test scenarios and test scripts, implementing testing
Crafting solutions to meet their business needs with enabling modules in Maconomy or other integrated financial solutions
Respond to business queries and concerns, working closely as a key contact to the Super User Network
Responsible for ensuring data controls are maintained

The skills & experience you'll need.

Ideally a financial background with a keenness to move into technology to leverage the power of knowing business processes, best practice and how technology can enable the business
Experienced in identifying improved ways of working and able to design new solutions, documentation of solutions and delivery for business outcomes
A track record of and passion for building and implementing fantastic products
Solid understanding of Finance Systems design in the context of ERP products. Ideally experience of Deltek
Maconomy, but also SAP, Oracle, Onestream, Microsoft 365 and Netsuite.
Experience working with Product Management, Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean methodologies
Able to recommend process improvement options with confidence and expertise
Flexible approach to all situations.
Leadership and teamwork
Ability to drive decisions
Selflearner thirst to learn and develop, continuous development
Strict alignment to timelines, scope, and work optimally within constraints

Location

London, More London PlaceUnited Kingdom

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles.

Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else.

Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.