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Department: Consulting Services
Location: , US

Basic Function: MicroStrategy Consultants empower customers to make more informed decisions by providing timely, relevant, and accurate answers to their business questions.  To achieve this mission, Consultants work to understand business needs and technical requirements, and design and implement high value solutions in the MicroStrategy platform.  MicroStrategy Consultants are an integral part of the world's largest staff of MicroStrategy Certified Engineers and leverage knowledge and best practices across our global team for customer success.  MicroStrategy Professional Services' Career Path provides growth opportunities at all levels within the organization.  Senior Consultants demonstrate well-developed technical and business leadership, developing trusted customer relationships and providing technical oversight to large project teams. Senior Consultants leverage their deep experience and highly effective communication skills to provide critical and constructive guidance to customers, steering them towards a long term vision for success.

Job Duties (include but are not limited to): 

• Delivers billable consulting services.  Efforts may be directed toward various MicroStrategy and / or supporting products and services
  
• Ensures a solid understanding of business objectives associated with projects and/or programs to which he or she is assigned
  
• Defines a project approach to ensure customer and MicroStrategy account success.  Provides critical and constructive guidance to customers, steering them towards a long term vision for success
  
• Creates technical and / or functional designs to support the customer requirement and business objective Scope may include standalone applications or more complex interdependent systems
  
• Leads and / or participates in implementation activities
  
• Provides technical oversight for large project teams, including customers and partners
  
• May assume selected engagement management responsibilities, with supervision
  
• Provides support to the Services management team, helping to scope and estimate the engagement
  
• Communicates effectively with team members both internally and with customers and partners, including at the executive level
  
• Leverages and extends MicroStrategy best practices for service delivery
  
• Applies methodology effectively in a wide variety of situations, and adapts methodology to new situations
  
• Mentors junior colleagues
  
• May be called upon to deliver classroom training for internal audiences
  
• Develops an awareness of the competitive landscape including key differentiators and competitive positioning
  
• Effectively demonstrates influence towards positive outcomes, internally and externally with customers
  
• Works within an internal sphere of influence typically bounded by project or regional activities
  
• Facilitates the team taking ideas from concept through full deployment
  
• Actively participates in internal knowledge-sharing forums

Job Requirements:

• Bachelors or equivalent degree in a business, technical, or related field
  
• 5+ years of industry, technology and services experience
  
• Commitment to personal and professional growth
  
• Experience designing and implementing MicroStrategy or other business intelligence solutions
  
• Demonstrated leadership ability resulting in customer success
  
• Excellent written communication and oral presentation skills
  
• Ability to work effectively independently as well as in a team environment
  
• Staffing to local projects wherever possible, however field consultants can expect periods and assignments of up to 75 - 80% travel

MicroStrategy is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Key result areas (include but not limited to):

• Deliver billable high value consulting in an advisory capacity specifically pertaining to Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
• Develop and maintain strong business relationships with senior management of our customers
• Lead customer’s strategic CPM/BI roadmap development
• Lead scoping engagements from the business perspective
• Lead analysis & design phase as well as quality reviews of CPM/BI projects
• Develop new opportunities at customer
• Contribute to and develop best practice methodology for BI deployments in financial services organizations
• Develop consulting and solution offerings for core CPM processes and functions mainly in financial services & insurance (but also for other industries)
• Understand and educate on the partner CPM solutions

Knowledge & experience

• 5 years experience in functional departments in banking, financial services or insurance organizations or as a consultant with financial services/insurance background
• 5-10 years experience with corporate performance management processes, i.e. planning, budgeting, consolidation, balanced scorecard, activity based costing, reporting
• Expert level knowledge of corporate performance management processes
• Advanced level knowledge of financial services / insurance processes
• Proven track record of successful delivery of CPM solutions preferably with financial services / insurance focus
• CPM subject matter expertise in at least two areas like financial reporting (e.g. Basel II, Solvency II), balanced scorecard, activity based costing, planning & budgeting, consolidation
• Experience with integration of various CPM business and application components
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts
• MBA or advanced degree preferred

Competencies:

• Excellent consulting skills & methodology knowledge
• Excellent communication & presentation skills at senior- or executive management level
• Strong leadership and entrepreneur personality
• Excellent networking and team working skills
• Very strong analytical and problem solving skills
• High levels of social perceptiveness and customer service
• Self driven, motivated and results oriented