Senior Business Process Consultant; Accounting Systems

Type: Contract (potential for conversion)

Base pay range: $75.00/hr - $88.00/hr

General Job Description:

Our client leverages multiple enterprise level software packages to automate and streamline the management of employee & financial processes and data. Accordingly, our client must document complex current & future state processes as a critical first step to identify and prioritize our most high value enterprise systems Operational Improvement Projects.

This role will be the primary resource responsible for documenting business processes for the Accounting and Finance organization, with a focus on Payroll. The consultant will successfully partner with the Accounting - Payroll, Finance, IT, Contracts, HR and other Operations SMEs across the company. The consultant will perform value stream analysis based on the process documentation gathered and serve as the primary resource compiling the proposed future state processes, working with the extended project team towards proposal of subsequent follow-on projects.

The position will report to the Senior Manager, Operations Development (PMO). This consultant resource will be assigned to work with the Director of Payroll and Senior Project Manager, PMO.

• Elicit accounting-related business process information from SMEs, organizing and stepping through interviews about their processes, collecting detailed information to build current state diagrams on process & data flow, and systems integrations.
• Function as the primary author or supporting editor of:
  Business Process Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Requirements, and Functional Requirements.
• Leverage Lean Six Sigma methodology for process analysis, documentation and facilitation of root cause analysis, efficiency measurements towards future state process optimization.
• Document issues with current business systems and processes for root cause analysis.
• Clearly document business requirements and underlying functional requirements in relation to enterprise systems.
• Build & manage successful relationships with internal business leaders, managers, and end users to drive the building of process documentation, and requirements for follow-on projects.
• Collaborate with IT Solution leaders and Process SMEs to explain process, data flow documentation to assist IT on their solutions design and configuration.
• This person must possess skills in eliciting, interviewing information from various business process owners, and partnering with the Director of Payroll, Payroll process leads, PMO Project Manager to align on a common understanding of process documentation.
• The consultant must be expert and experienced at transforming the information and learnings from interviews into detailed business process and related data flow & workflow diagrams. Then, leverage the diagram mappings into value stream mapping (VSM) analysis.

• 7+ years of experience in Business Process Analysis in Accounting.
• Expert in Business Process Mapping diagram documentation, and Data Flow mapping.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent demonstration of process analysis methodology knowledge towards Value Stream Mapping, Root Cause Analysis, DMAIC.
• Proficient in Lucidchart or similar, Microsoft Excel, Word, and other MS Office products.
• Familiarity with Smartsheet, Google Workspace for Email/Calendar/Chat.
• Works independently and in a workgroup, team collaboration setting.
• Demonstrates flexibility and the ability to adapt.
• Applies discretion and good judgement handling sensitive information.
• Comfortable working with all levels of management.
• Proficient in running meetings, in-person and virtually (Zoom).
• Foot-forward and high comfort with presenting Lucidchart diagrams in virtual meetings, quickly navigating within the diagram for virtual team workshopping sessions.
• Professional verbal & written communications skills.
• Critical thinking skills – ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, Accounting, Finance or similar.
• Preferred:
  Experience documenting Payroll-related process.
• Preferred:
  Enterprise Systems Familiarity with: JD Edwards, HCM.

EOE of Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabilities

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