Principal Consultant Job Description
Principal consultant
provides general Ledger, Security, and Reporting support for all accounting and finance teams during the month-end close and between accounting periods.
Principal Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
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This candidate will design and implement an integration solution across wide range of toolset along with consultative experience to develop a long term implementation roadmap and this individual required to bring deep tools knowledge and ALM/CLM integration experience in order to advise and recommend client on cost-effective solutions
This core technology skills are very niche and not available internally or in the market.We need someone strong to be on boarded on an urgent basis
Conduct and participate in design walkthroughs with architects, designers, developers, and possibly customers
Ensure the quality of one’s own and/or a project team’s deliverables through adherence to project standards and methodologies
The natural ability to foster high value client relationships by demonstrating a clear understanding of the client business and identifying the appropriate solutions to address the client needs
Successfully running client projects, managing your own and others time effectively to ensure high quality deliverables and project outcomes to time and budget
An analytical brain, creating innovative ideas, demonstrating knowledge and thought leadership and displaying technical consulting mastery
The ability to think commercially, creating revenue opportunities and profitable growth
Experience creating business development opportunities, advancing the offer and creating revenue and profitability growth
Identify problems, research alternatives through testing and consulting with peers
Principal Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Principal Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: HAZWOPER, FLEXCUBE, CISSP, ERP, PMP, CNE, HP, CBAP, RSA, AWS
Education for Principal Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the principal 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, Accounting, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, MBA, Business/Administration, Management, Education
Skills for Principal Consultant
Desired skills for principal consultant include:
Ecommerce
CRM
OpenAir
At least 1 major area of NetSuite functionality – ERP
Asset accounting
Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting processes and best practices
Material ledger
SAP Finance solutions
Special ledger
Viz EBS R12 & Fusion
Desired experience for principal consultant includes:
Knowledge of Monte Carlo Simulation experiences
Experience working with IT Health and Readiness, several major Quality Engineering initiatives
One of the main tracks is around QA Strategic Expansion & Technology Enablement which requires a Tools Strategist to understand the tool integration landscape at the Client place identify an integration solution, conduct a pilot and develop a future roll-out plan
These new technology tracks are very critical to the organization in their quality transformation and maturity journey, and has the potential for creating a strong revenue stream in the coming years
This is a critical role which requires a specialist to design and implement an integration solution across wide range of toolset along with consultative experience to develop a long term implementation roadmap
Collaborative and team-oriented highly resourceful and self-directed is required
Principal Consultant Examples
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Principal Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a principal 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 principal consultant
- Mentor junior consultants in their practice areas
- Work closely with other Consultants, Technical and Consulting Directors to ensure the business is stable and balanced across the practice and maintain technical excellence
- Meet Utilization metrics
- Strictly adhere to a consulting process based on Project Management Institute best practices
- Provide oversight of projects delegated to team members to ensure consistent delivery and client satisfaction
- Create any supporting tools, templates or processes to support the service lines
- Possibly travel up to 80%
- Developing and deploying standard SAP solutions across various businesses
- Requirements gathering with the business, interacting with development team, writing functional specification, build testing scripts for developer business & training on the newly developed functionality
- Should have very good documentation skills and ability to work in global environment, cultures, time zones
Qualifications for principal consultant
- 5+ years full lifecycle software development experience
- Direct experience with SOME of the following commonly accepted industry architectures/technologies including J2EE, .NET, SOA/Web Services, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, HTTP, JSON, REST
- Public Sector experience preferred
- Will support HCM Lead on implementation project and provide functional support in configuration and testing
- 2-5 years digital data analytics
- Knowledge of email technologies and email deliverability concepts a plus
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a principal consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for principal consultant
- High-level estimation of effort for design, development and testing of design solutions (ball-parking)
- Detailed estimation of effort for development and testing of design solutions
- Scoping new projects, including definition of effort, development of cost, and statement of work
- Providing support to sales executives to close analytics and measurement deals and initiate projects
- Guiding engagement execution around methodology & approach to ensure timeliness & quality of deliverables meet client expectations
- Providing thought leadership (both internally and externally) on area(s) of subject matter expertise, including managing/mentoring team members, providing reusable content in the way of presentations, white papers and point of views
- Developing or providing input on strategic analytics content as commissioned by clients that focuses on solving business issues
- Refining and improving analytics and measurement approaches, processes and practices
- Insurance and Healthcare experience
- Own the delivery of plan phase networking consulting engagements, including surveyors, assessments, design, and architecture
Qualifications for principal consultant
- Prior experience with EBS HR and Payroll and/or PSFT is preferred
- Experience working within Financial Services/ Capital Market
- Proven experience working with marketers on deliverability related issues
- Understanding of email technologies including MTAs, SMTP, DNS, authentication, feedback loops and white listing
- Subject matter knowledge of relevant implementation responsibility
- 8 or more years experience in supporting 24/7 development environments
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of principal consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for principal consultant
- Partner with other Consulting Directors to execute our mission to drive revenue through a business outcome led, technology enabled strategy within a given practice domain
- Performs personnel management responsibilities including, but not limited to involvement in hiring and termination decisions
- Act as a BPM Lead Consultant in the Integration Practice specializing in the delivery of Hybrid Cloud Integrations based solutions on behalf of our client-base
- Automation of environment creation, testing, and software deployments
- Administrating installing, and configuring operating systems and hypervisors
- Work with PaaS and SaaS SME’s to deliver full cloud solutions for customers
- Server builds and automation through scripting
- Configuration of secure network connections via ssh
- Creation and modification of VM templates and orchestrations
- Server and OS tuning and testing for performance and scalability
Qualifications for principal consultant
- Proficient in capturing AWR reports, analyzing them and making performance improvement recommendations
- Develop/review detailed estimates for Design and Development phases based on functional requirements
- Work as part of the project team responsible for converting the External Design into Internal Design Specifications that will be used by Developers to program the system
- Ensure customer satisfaction by delivering high quality programs within agreed budgets and time frames
- University degree in Engineering in IT, Computer Science or any of its equivalents
- At least five (8) years development and design experience, preferably in a multi-national organization
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of principal consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for principal consultant
- To assist Austin Processing Center (APC) with data analysis and actionable results
- Responsible for providing data to internal and external stakeholders
- Responsible for Business Process reengineering to improve processes
- Responsible for monthly communication materials
- Responsible for updating and maintaining all APC documentation to reflect updated practices and policies
- Provide senior-level analytical and program support
- Lead assigned engagement tasks and assist in developing deliverables
- APC in selection and standardization of new business processes as they are rolled in
- Assist APC by conducting analysis on distinct submission rates and performance
- Assist Assistant Chief by responding to HQ tasks and data calls
Qualifications for principal consultant
- At least one (3) year work experience in technical designing
- Excellent in communication & consulting skills
- Have experience in related sectors
- Exposure to different methodologies and approaches
- Ability and flexibility to work on a range of different business areas as a consultant
- Broad awareness of macro-economic and regulatory changes happening across the Financial Services industry and how this will impact our clients
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a principal 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 principal consultant
- Drive the ongoing development of the assurance framework across the portfolio
- Manage the collection, critical analysis and evaluation of robust business intelligence, reporting and data analytics to guide evidence based operational decision-making and strategic planning
- Continuously improve the governance framework methodologies by working collaboratively with stakeholders to apply right size assurance, governance and process to deliver improved business and technology outcomes
- Provide advice about the feasibility and suitability of proposed solutions to optimise business performance
- Lead and manage a team to provide customer focussed services
- Facilitate strong working relationships with key stakeholders to support collaboration, the exchange of information and issues management to build on existing relationships and influence outcomes
- Work with key stakeholders to define business requirements and trends to enable informed business decisions and service level improvements
- Provide plain language advice on technical issues to non-technical audiences
- Support project / Organization leadership with all relevant information for planning, execution w.r.t
- Complete lifecycle of Large IRIS / MIS projects (from requirement gathering to SAT)
Qualifications for principal consultant
- 5+ years of experience with IT Management Consulting, IT governance, and/or program management, with in-depth focus on IT infrastructure
- All round understanding of IT (plan, build, run) business-IT dependency
- Strong customer focus and communication and sociability
- Ability to deliver in difficult project situations
- Strong motivation and goal orientation
- Strong decision-making and critical thinking ability