Functional Consultant Job Description
Functional consultant
provides in-depth knowledge of the Microsoft Dynamics AX application and evaluates the customer’s business processes against the standard Microsoft Dynamics functionality.
Functional Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Interacts with clients to determine solution specifications
Provides two way communications between the customer and the extended project team
Key activities include planning, estimating, determining functional architecture, writing functional design specifications, managing customer account relationships and providing support
Provides consulting on credit decisioning and viewed as an expert in software development processes
Interprets the information and adapts as needed
Works with customers on functional and technical aspects of project delivery and support
Experience with business rules development
Project Delivery – Contributes to conceptual and logical designs
Delivery Support GIS / SAP – Provides GIS/SAP Operational Support for level 2 & 3 production issues
Strategy & Planning – Contributes to development of IT strategy workshops to support end to end strategy planning
Functional Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Functional Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SAP, TUV, CPQ, CGSS, CAMS, CCEP, ERP, AX, SCRUM, AGILE
Education for Functional Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the functional consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Technical, Computer Science, Business, Education, Engineering, Accounting, Management, Finance, Technology, Business/Administration
Skills for Functional Consultant
Desired skills for functional consultant include:
Microsoft Project
At least one software development methodology
Microsoft platform skills
Business processes and Dynamics AX to identify software gaps and suggest alternatives
Microsoft Office suite
Visio
Design and Configuration
Fit Gap Assessments
Software design theory and current practices
SQL
Desired experience for functional consultant includes:
Candidate must hold a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline from an accredited college or university
Must hold or be able to obtain Top secret clearance based on SSBI
Functional Consulting and Hands on knowledge with NetSuite Administration, Customization, and Configuration
Knowledge of financial instruments (FX, MM, IRS, FRA, Bonds ), settlement and accounting
Relationship Management – Responsible for strategic management of key customer relationships
Demonstrated in depth knowledge of enterprise applications or of GIS / SAP functional domains and related solutions
Functional Consultant Examples
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Functional Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of functional consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for functional consultant
- Work closely with Project team to deliver practical solutions
- Providing sales and marketing support statements of work, proposals and application demonstrations
- Apply expertise and experience to draw insights from analytics data
- Enterprise System Delivery Support - Provides Operational Support for level 2 & 3 production issues
- Business Process Analysis – Maintains expert knowledge of regulatory, information lifecycle management, enterprise and multiple business domains, end-to-end processes, related solutions and capabilities or configuration and of enterprise applications
- Responsible for the creation and delivery of all functional documentation
- Configure at a Global level specific features and functionality at a Local level
- Develop quarterly enablement plan to support both the Account Management and Client Sales Roles, in partnership with the Field Enablement leaders across all regions
- Review existing list of projects, prioritize based on global needs/request, and level set expectations for deliver across the Client Development community
- Review and redefine curriculum for onboarding plans, incorporating global standards for the role, implement knowledge checks
Qualifications for functional consultant
- Must hold a UK driving license
- In this role the person translates business requirements into SAP solution designs (both standard and custom made solutions)
- Location = Hungary, Budapest
- 1 or more full project lifecycle implementations of SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) functionality
- At least 3 additional years hands on experience designing and implementing other SAP modules including SAP WM
- Preferred applicants will also have experience with the Task and Resource Management (TRM) and Handling Unit Management (HUM) modules of SAP
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of functional consultant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for functional consultant
- Schedule ongoing cadence with Client Development and Client Sales Leaders to review priorities and learning opportunities, make recommendations for training/programs needs
- Support new hire development of Client Development new hires through facilitation and administration of onboarding programs
- Demonstrates different influence styles as appropriate to each situation while maintaining positive relationships
- Builds and maintain trusting relationships with peers and constituents
- Build, prioritize, and implement new processes to meet key business objectives
- Liaise and lead meetings with Enablement stakeholders as to communicate requirements and needs around launch plans, asset requirements and training curriculum
- Listens objectively and checks for understanding
- Shows persistence despite obstacles and opposition or set backs
- Holds oneself accountable for results
- Supports new hire development of Client Development new hires through facilitation and administration of onboarding programs
Qualifications for functional consultant
- Supporting customers to make a smooth transition from their existing systems, applications, and processes to new tools and processes through implementation efforts and, where appropriate ongoing consulting
- Business process review and analysis of client business requirements
- Demonstrated experience in consulting and/or training and development
- Capability to articulate requirements, analysis of requirements, breaking down the requirements into logical sub-sets and documentation
- Clear communicator of complex issues (Essential)
- A BA/BA degree or equivalent work experience combined with a minimum of 7 years relevant working experience in business solutions deployment
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of functional consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for functional consultant
- Deliver live and virtual training learning programs to the Client Development organization, facilitate events and programs, including new-hire onboarding, leadership development, and ongoing educational programs
- Provide thought leadership to entire Client Development organization through contributions to knowledge bases, training sessions, knowledge development, weekly sales updates
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the solution specifications
- Work independently with end-users and under direction of project managers to ensure timely completion of milestone dependencies
- Participate significantly in project planning and estimating
- Collaborate with, and lead other team members to assure coordinated effort
- Provide task status/updates regularly to the Project Manager
- Respond to stakeholders’ need for information through pre-defined channels
- Facilitate testing and requirements traceability through project lifecycle
- Support & maintain pre-sales engagements for the designated products with the EMEA sales teams including driving RFI/RFP efforts as necessary
Qualifications for functional consultant
- Willingness to travel as required (30 to 75%)
- Twelve yrs application or IT infrastructure support
- Demonstrated in depth knowledge of enterprise applications
- Workday certification in Core HR
- Configuration of demonstration environments to best address a customer’s requirements
- Advise and maintain product enhancements arising from sales cycle
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of functional consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for functional consultant
- Participate in internal meetings lead weekly status meetings with the client
- Elicit and formalize customer requirements and drive analysis through workshops
- Formalise Functional Specifications and estimates for specific developments
- Be available to participate in sales team activity
- Responsible for the complete documentation and collaterals for AMS handover
- This position is 20% Project Management, 50% Analysis, 30% Technical (drawing on technical and/or product knowledge in advanced configurations of the Kantar Retail Trade Optimization applications)
- Must be able to take complex client and vendor concepts and articulate them to audiences of varied perception levels
- Financial / Procurement Business domain
- Consult with stakeholders comprised of business unit leadership and stakeholders, HR, and Training and Development colleagues to gain a deep understanding of learning needs
- Conduct thorough needs analyses to assess the current state, identify the key performance and skills/knowledge gaps, and devise optimal learning solutions
Qualifications for functional consultant
- Certified in Certification in current version of Curam preferred
- The successful candidate must be a disciplined self-starter positive team player
- Minimum of 3 years Retail omni-channel stores expertise either within an application vendor, a systems integrator or with a Retailer
- A minimum of 3 years sales consulting experience
- Good understanding of gathering customer requirements and aligning these with product capabilities versus customisation and enhancements
- Good understanding of integration (both system- and user-) concepts, terms and technologies
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Our company is hiring for a functional consultant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for functional consultant
- Serve as a liaison between State, MMIS, and PMO for identified programs and projects
- Identify and resolve risks and issues impacting the progress and outcome of the project
- Research and provide recommendations to project and client leadership on critical business decisions
- Review and comment on vendor deliverables according to the schedule
- Contribute to the project’s overall understanding of the client’s business requirements and impacts to the MMIS
- Communicate project status, risks and issues to the State, MMIS, PMO
- Prepare or contribute to status reports and agendas for scheduled meetings that highlight tasks accomplished, issues, risks and analysis results, anomalies, resolutions, corrective actions, and lessons learned
- Participate in monthly project meetings with the MMIS Project Director to discuss work in progress and findings
- Participate in project strategy and direction setting activities as requested
- Work directly with client onsite
Qualifications for functional consultant
- Must be organised, able to prioritise and work on own initiative
- Will interact with business team to get the requirements on SCM area for OER[Object Event Repository]/AII[Auto ID Infrastructure] requirements for Enhancements,Interfaces and Reports
- Should have hands on for the Support,Development and Testing on the SCM with OER/AII area
- Good communication and documentation is a must
- Will have very limited guidance from the Project management and candidate should have ability to arrive the solution
- Should have experience on SCM,MM,QM,PP area