Thursday, July 21, 2011

Advisory Services Manager - Financial Services Solutions - (US-See below)


Advisory Services Manager - Financial Services Solutions - (US-See below)

Compensation: 
$150K - $250K / Year
Minimum Education: 
Bachelors
Job Type: 
Full Time
Jobcode: 
EJFJA19

Positions available based in NYC, Charlotte, Boston, DC area, San Francisco 

Highly motivated Managers to manage to manage client engagement teams, work with a wide variety of clients to deliver professional services, and lead business development activities on strategic and global priority accounts. 

The successful candidate should possess strong knowledge of and experience in supervising and executing all phases of the technology life cycle, based on proven project management and testing methodologies. It is essential that the successful candidate possess a deep knowledge of technical architecture design and have a good understanding of technology tools and components to reasonably argue for and against all middleware, database, reporting tools, etc. in financial systems architecture. 

Previous experience in any of the following technology areas: 
• General Ledger / Sub-Ledger / Accounting Hub (e.g., Oracle, PeopleSoft or SAP) 
• Financial consolidation systems (e.g., Hyperion HFM) 
• Financial data management tools (e.g., Hyperion FDM/ FDQM) 
• Financial data warehouses 
• Finance, management and regulatory reporting systems 
• GL Reconciliation systems (e.g., BlackLine) 
• Performance management tools (e.g., Hyperion Planning) 
• Business intelligence tools (e.g., Cognos, Business Objects) 
Practitioners deliver advice and support across the technology lifecycle, spanning many of the following competency areas: 
• Finance Transformation Strategy and Delivery 
• Financial Systems Architecture Assessment and Design 
• Financial Systems Implementation Assistance (focused on ERP / General Ledger / Accounting Hub systems) 
• Financial Systems Effectiveness Assessment 
• Financial Process Assessment and Design 
• Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting Strategy 
• Performance Management and Measurement Improvement 
• Financial / Management Reporting Capability Assessment and Design 
• Data Governance / Management 
• Data Warehousing Design 
• Technology Change Management 

Qualifications 
• Bachelor's degree and approximately 5+ years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience 
• 3+ years of relevant experience at a financial services company or comparable experience working as an advisor to a financial services company 
• Experience managing and supervising a team of technology advisors through all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture design, conversion and testing 

Prior Experience in the following areas: 
• Finance technology architecture design 
• Financial systems (General Ledger / Sub-Ledger) design and implementation 
• Systems selection 
• Finance transformation and accelerated close improvement 
• Financial systems assessment 
• Financial process assessment and design 
• Financial systems reconciliation redesign or improvement 
• Budgeting, planning and forecasting improvement 
• Performance management and measurement 
• Financial / Management reporting enhancement 
• Post-merger integration 
• Data governance and management 
• Business intelligence and decision support 
• Technology program / project management (PMO) 
• Technology change management 
• Definition of business and technical requirements 
• Data mapping and conversion 
• Proof of concept solution design 
• Quality assurance and testing 
• Business and IT process reengineering 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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