ERP Implementation Manager

Job Advertisement: ERP Implementation Engineer

Position: ERP Implementation Engineer
Location: Farnborough

Overview of the Role: Are you a proactive and skilled ERP Implementation Engineer with a passion for driving global process improvements? Join our dynamic team to support the successful implementation and embedding of a new Financial Planning application.

Your expertise will help streamline and enhance our organizational functions, ensuring seamless integration and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Understanding: Grasp the project scope, schedule, and deliverables, collaborating closely with internal stakeholders to meet their needs and expectations.


• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner across various organizational functions (Finance, Production, R&D, Procurement, HR, etc.) to define existing business processes.


• Requirements Elicitation: Gather functional and technical application & process requirements through dialogue with business partners and key stakeholders.


• Supplier Engagement: Create a shortlist of suitable suppliers, develop proposals, and manage NDAs.


• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with stakeholders to create selection criteria, procure RFPs, review proposals, and onboard suppliers.


• Project Management: Develop project charters, resource estimates, project plans, and work breakdown structures.
  
  Ensure robust Project Governance and manage all facets of Project Management through to completion.


• Solution Delivery Support: Participate in design reviews and walk-throughs to communicate requirements and validate proposed solutions.


• Implementation and Training: Perform impact analysis and support application testing, implementation, and training activities throughout the process.


• Issue Resolution: Report, analyze, and resolve issues related to implementation, stakeholders, and project operations that may impact service quality, ensuring swift and effective problem resolution.


• Process Documentation: Document existing processes and drive consistency across entities through policy implementation.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent experience.


• Extensive experience with full life cycle end-to-end implementation of ERP/financial systems, preferably M365 & Dassault (PLM), with a focus on Production modules.


• Proven ability to leverage technology to improve business and finance processes.


• Demonstrable experience and formal Project Management qualifications.


• Competence in managing multiple work streams, conflicting priorities, differing reporting lines, multi-site projects, as well as scope change and risk.


• Exceptional stakeholder, people management, coaching, and leadership skills.


• Experience in an Agile environment is desirable.


• Ability to understand business issues and assess the technical and process impact relating to the project.


• Excellent organizational, planning, and time management skills.


• Solid demonstrable ERP experience delivering successful projects.


• Project management or ERP implementation qualification (Prince2, Agile PM, PMP).


• Understanding of core FP&A and business processes.


• Previous experience in a finance environment is desirable.