SAP Consultant - Financial

Department: SAP Consulting

Reports To: VP and General Manager Manufacturing

Location: USA

Date: 2007/10/04

This position is responsible for creating value to our customers by providing functional consulting support and training on SoftBrands, and our partners ERP related software products. This person is an Small to Mid-sized Enterprise financial consulting expert with a broad background including General Ledger, Receivables, Payables, Purchasing, and Inventory, who will work as a consulting team member or an individual functional consultant for fee-based product implementation, including Lead functions, functional customization via configuration of SAP solution sets including Business One and/or SoftBrands Fourth Shift Edition for SAP Business One. All have the requirement to understand and utilize Microsoft technology.

This person will be responsible for defining and documenting business processes and configuring those processes as part of an implementation of SoftBrands and/or our partners solution sets, including Business One.

Additionally, this person will also be responsible for conducting functional training via train-the-trainer, classroom and individualize end user training approaches for customers on functional aspects of the aforementioned solutions.

10% - Administrative requirement to maintain required reporting discipline with pre-engagement reports, project statements of work, post-engagement reporting, and timely submission of all job-related expenses.  Maintain a personal calendar (6 weeks out) utilizing provided SoftBrands tools.

60% - Delivery of project related services at customer sites throughout North America relative to functions and usage of SoftBrands Fourth Shift Edition and/or SAP Business One application software.

• Responsible for delivery via lecture, demonstrations, discussion groups, hands-on exercises relative to training requirements of customer project plan.
• Business Process Analysis and documentation to meet customer business requirements through SoftBrands and/or SAP application software.

30% - Configuration and implementation of functionality to meet customer requirements based upon approved project plans for SoftBrands and/or SAP application software.

• Exhibit and deliver configuration expertise to customize SoftBrands and/or partner solutions to meet business requirements of customer as defined int he project plans developed and approved.
• Assisting in the integration or interfacing of third-party applications deemed to be of value to our customer base.

Essential Education, Skills and Environment:

Education and Work Experience

•  Four year Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance,  Business Administration or Computer Sciences
• Minimum of five years experience in financial application software relative to a manufacturing implementation and use, software development, technical product support, software technical training or consulting
•  Prior experience with Fourth Shift Edition products/services or SAP Business One product /services a plus.

Key Skills & Abilities:

•  Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Products including Microsoft Office, Projects, etc.
• Working knowledge of reporting tools like Crystal Reports, Xcel Reporter, etc. a plus.
•  Excellent oral and written communication, presentation, organizational and planning skills required. 
• Professional appearance and presentation required.  
•  Excellent interpersonal skills working as a team member and as a customer liaison. 

Work Environment and Physical Demands:

•  General office environment.
•  Considerable stress may occur at times.
•  70 % travel.  Some weekend work will be required.

Additional Information:

• 100% satisfaction measured by Annual Customer Satisfaction Surveys, reflecting ratings of “7” or better on a scale from 1 – 10 Attaining sign-off letters for all new site projects and those add-on projects which warrant a statement of work
•  Attaining class evaluations at the conclusion of each class

Normally considered exempt