PeopleSoft - Financials (Financial Management)/Consultant

Organization: Government, State and Local, Consulting
Location: New York, Chicago, Detroit, Columbus, Hartford, Reston, Boston, Atlanta

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture’s Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Business Consulting, Business and Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description
Business & Systems Integration Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology to help our clients achieve high performance. PeopleSoft professionals have skills in delivering PeopleSoft Enterprise and Enterprise One solutions. The focus is on architecting a solution using PeopleSoft to achieve a defined business outcome. The PeopleSoft suite includes solutions for specific industries, ERP, CRM, HR, SCM and Business Intelligence. Individuals possess skills in PeopleSoft process design and configuration, PeopleSoft design, development, integration, testing and deployment, and PeopleSoft technical architecture.

The ideal candidate will have two to five years of hands-on experience with PeopleSoft's Financial Management software.

Key responsibilities may include:
• Supervising application design and architecture components
• Supervising process and functional design activities
• Creating functional requirements as an input to application design
• Developing and testing detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes
• Supervising application build, test, and deploy activities
• Planning and executing data conversion activities
• Driving test planning and execution
• This is a consulting position that requires 100% travel.

Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 123,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$15.55 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2005. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer
REQUIREMENTS
•1 to 5 years of PeopleSoft-Financials experience
•Must have bachelors degree
Nice to have Experience:
•Skills Applying patches & upgrades; including Change Assistant
•Skills in migrating PeopleTools objects throughout the development environments
•Skills in PeopleTools and PeopleCode
•Experience on the Installation and Configuration of Oracle/PeopleSoft Financials software