Digital Finance & Accounting Transformation Solution Architect

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Role Overview

Our clients Digital Business Operations business unit is growing quickly by transforming finance and accounting processes for over 100 clients, many of which are global marquee brands.  Their Finance & Accounting (F&A) practice is strategic to our growth and transforming to be a digital transformation leader in F&A.  Our strategy is centered on applying cutting-edge technology and platforms, industry-process domain expertise and full-suite of transformation assets into differentiated solutions that deliver outstanding business outcomes for our clients.

To enable that strategy we seeking several highly skilled, experienced and successful leader solutioning F&A transformations.  We are looking for someone from a top tier F&A services firm that has led solution teams and F&A solutioning for large, complex, transformative and global F&A outsourced solutions. In addition, the ideal candidate will be a domain subject matter expert in key F&A processes (i.e., P2P, O2C, RTR, FP&A), digital technologies and industries in order to define and enable new, winning solutions/offerings.

Experience

  • At least 10 years of experience as a solution architect/solution team manager in F&A / enterprise services for top tier global F&A business process services providers
  • Winning track record of leading the architecture of large, complex, technology-centric, global F&A solutions – from structuring the solution, costing-pricing, developing & presenting proposals, writing statements of work, service levels and business outcomes
  • F&A functional process subject matter expert in either or all; procure to pay, order to cash, record to report, financial planning & analysis, regulatory/compliance. Expertise and know-how in procurement, HR, supply-chain, customer experience is a plus
  • Industry domain specialization/know-how in F&A processes in a or multiple industries; banking, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, logistics, B2B/B2B services, technology, utilities-energy
  • Defining competitively differentiated solutions & offerings with top F&A technology partners (e.g., Blackline, High Radius, Basware, TradeShift, etc.), intelligent-cognitive partners (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Celonis, etc.) and across an enterprise-wide technologies
  • Successfully leading multi-function, global teams on the solutioning and sales of F&A deal pursuits through all stages of the sales process with strong program management
  • Understanding of the CFO/F&A organization and ecosystem, F&A market and providers to develop and differentiate solutions and how we go to market to outperform them
  • Excellent problem solving and business communication (written & oral) skills to effectively engage with clients
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced entrepreneurial and highly matrixed organization and “roll up your sleeves” attitude to get things done inside and outside the company

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect transformative solutions by defining how to operationalize processes, apply technologies, structure the organization, transition and transform and deliver the scope of services
  • Solution development from conceptualizing and structuring the solution, costing-pricing, developing & presenting proposals, writing statements of work, service levels and business outcomes
  • Engage with clients and our internal operations teams to successfully stand-up and transition work from clients to our client
  • Proactively engaging internal and external partners in the solutioning, offering development and deal pursuit to close opportunities with existing and new clients
  • Proactively reviewing solutions and gaining alignment with transition, transformation and operational delivery on proposals to existing and new clients
  • Sales support various internal teams (e.g., marketing, influencer relations, etc.) to provide the necessary support and collateral on to support our go-to-market execution

If you are interested or know someone who might be please let me know. Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,

Larry Janis, Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

E: janis@issg.net

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Cloud Services Lead

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Location: East coast (NJ/NY Preferably)

Overview & Responsibilities:

Our client looking for an exceptional Cloud Services Lead skilled in a diverse range of cloud hosting technologies.  Expert knowledge of cloud storage, compute, networking, backup, disaster recovery, etc. services and operations, required to maintain high service levels, optimal performance, maintaining and shaping strategic direction.  The Cloud Services Lead will have a deep understanding of cloud services, migrating traditional on premise workloads to cloud, and architecture and design of new cloud opportunities.   The Cloud Services Lead will work closely with multiple internal teams to ensure efficient operations for both internal corporate based and customer facing hosted applications.  Heavy focus on security and compliance is a key responsibility of this role.  This role will involve translating business requirements into technical solutions, meeting security, compliance, high SLA, disaster recovery, and operational components.  Must have experience leading technical teams.  The position will lead cloud hosting services, disaster recovery/business continuity architecture, design, and operations, including periodic DR/BCP test exercises.

 

This role is an escalation point for 24 x 7 systems and staff is on call to support production systems.  This position also requires oversight and completing work during maintenance windows.

  • Expert in Cloud storage, compute, and network (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Expert in Cloud Services  (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Expert in Migrating workloads and services from traditional datacenter to cloud (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Expert in Server Operating Systems (Windows, Linux)
  • Expert in Cloud based Backup/Archive
  • Experience with Cloud based Network architecture
  • Experience Scripting of system administration tasks, e.g. bash, PowerShell, python, etc. (required)
  • Experience with Cloud based enterprise telephony solutions
  • Exceptional ability to configure, maintain and troubleshoot infrastructure, hardware, software, and systems connectivity.
  • Strong organizational skills; able to manage priorities and workflow.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform complex technical tasks, analysis and diagnostics
  • Ability to understand and follow written and verbal instructions.
  • Experience industry compliance and security requirements, SOC1/2, SOX, HIPAA, HiTrust, PCI DSS, ISO27001

Qualifications & Experience:

  • 5-7 years managing cloud operations
  • 5-7 years leading large technical teams
  • 5-7 years migrating on premise workloads to cloud
  • Relevant cloud certifications
  • Experience managing financial budgets
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

If you are interested our know someone who might be, please let me know

Larry Janis, Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

P-516-767-3030

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Digital Identity Functional Delivery Lead

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You Are

A passionate leader who brings technology innovation, facilitation skills, and an entrepreneur mindset to deliver valuable solutions for clients. You have excellent interpersonal, communication and listening skills. You are a life-long learner and energized by solving new problems and transforming how our clients think.

 

The Work

You’ll often be:

  • Helping clients transform through technology by leading and implementing strategic assessments and technology solutions that drive business change, focusing on high-impact systems development activities and business and IT advisory across a multi-client or industry ecosystem
  • Leading projects that deliver world-class Blockchain & Multiparty Systems technology solutions.
  • Providing a comprehensive suite of blockchain and distributed ledger technology services through a global team of experts.
  • Delivering solutions for our most complex client engagements and early adopters; coordinating across multiple teams to define and evaluate the business case, formulate an approach, propose the technology solution, and assess risks.
  • Helping clients’ move through the education and experimentation phases on to production and value quickly and effectively.
  • Building relationships with clients to raise Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
  • A key participant in developing Accenture’s response to the emerging technology trends in the market shifting how businesses apply, operationalize, and expand key technology innovations.
  • Articulating and explaining Accenture’s technology vision and strategy at Accenture’s most significant/critical client(s) across the globe.
  • Pioneering the use of new and emerging technologies, such as decentralized identity, confidential computing, extended reality, quantum computing, or robotics.
  • Fortifying Accenture’s Blockchain & Multiparty Systems practice and role as a thought leader by creating content and taking part in professional forums, both internal and external.
  • Mentoring junior members of the Blockchain & Multiparty Systems team and grooming them for more responsibility.
  • Area of focus is digital (decentralized) identity.

You should have experience with some of the following:

  • Experience with blockchain or distributed ledgers.
  • Awareness of the commercial, retail, and social impacts of Digital Identities
  • Conveying and communicating complex scenarios and solutions in a simple, logical manner that addresses varying audiences.
  • Understanding business challenges and explaining how an offering and service provides value with an objective and independent point of view.
  • Working through organizational change and/or expanding ecosystem relationships, developing, and delivering creative solutions.
  • Insights on key methodologies, approaches, and market trends in the industry.

If you are interested or perhaps know someone who might be, please let me know! Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,

 

Larry Janis

 

Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

P-516-767-3030 I C-516-445-2377

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Insurance

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VP – Account Management, Insurance

Create and execute strategic account plans to maximize revenue and profitability by driving cross-sell, pace of volume ramps, time to proficiency and client satisfaction. Develop C-level and cross-functional contacts and touch-points in the client organization through regular objective based interaction forums and review governance cadence. Continuously keep track of client needs, gauge client satisfaction and expand client contacts through high frequency 1:1 meetings and follow through action logs. Scout and scope new opportunities within the account by participating in client’s review meetings – identify problem statements and map services and products to develop customized solutions. Mentor offshore cross-functional teams to optimize employee, infrastructure, IT,T&E other support costs through bi-monthly MIS and P&L reviews, drive the creation of action plans, review and modify action plans as required. Mentor offshore teams for seamless project and service delivery

Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of Lean principles and six sigma to manage group Black Belts.
  • Strong background in the management of insurance client relationships and large teams (people and clients)
  • Minimum 10 – 12 years of working experience, including at least last 6 years in managing teams and client relationship
  • Makes client the compelling focus of the business
  • Ability to establish and nurture C suite relationship
  • Possess and continuously display strategic focus and business acumen
  • Relentlessly pursue excellence
  • Foster a spirit of collaboration and teamwork
  • Attract and retain talent through effective people management
  • Have a bias for action, superior implementation
  • Be a Brand Ambassador for the organization

Insurance Product Owner

P&C Insurance business is looking for a highly effective Product and Solution Owner to join the team. Our client believes there is always a better way. We look deeper, we find it, and we make it happen. We created a culture founded on core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

In this role, you will lead the design, build and commercialization of new products and solutions by working with clients / prospects, internal stakeholders and EXL Digital Team to gather product or solution roadmap requirements, solution design it and apply those requirements to define and maintain product and solution roadmaps. You will dig deeper leveraging market analysis pundits and publications to define future direction of domain and digital trends to validate current product and solution roadmap assumptions and inform the evolution of those roadmaps.

As products and solutions are ready to bring to market, you will make it happen by setting the tone internally for selling motion as well as externally for future product expectations/roadmap as appropriate. Part of your measure of success will be the creation of best-in-class solutions to meet client’s current and future needs. In summary, your job responsibilities will include,

  • Own the overall product / solution and develop the solution based on client/market interactions
  • Lead the agile product development process
  • Co-own revenue and margin goal with our front end team
  • Understand client challenges and articulate them into solution opportunities
  • Understand market demand, industry trends and repeatability across clients
  • Collaborate and work with cross functional team on functional design
  • Validate technical solution against client needs
  • Create a viable commercial model for solution
  • Own approvals of user stories, sprint scope, backlog, and acceptance criteria
  • Own Investment request, budget tracking
  • Own Client pitches and POC creation
  • Work with marketing and front end team for GTM to generate pipeline
  • Pipeline and revenue management in collaboration with front end and delivery teams

 

Candidate Profile

  • Minimum 10 years of total work experience with proven ability and experience in agile new product / solution / service design and launch
  • Strong background, understanding and working knowledge of P&C Insurance Industry domain and understanding of emerging business and technology trends (cloud, data, AI)
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience working with global cross-functional teams with proven ability to mobilize and work with cross-functional teams to create differentiated products and solutions and value proposition for clients
  • Stakeholder management with the ability to manage conflicts, identify issues or bottlenecks and come with solutions to address the challenges
  • Excellent education pedigree – MBA preferred but not essential

 

Insurance Solutions Owner

P&C Insurance business is looking for a highly effective Product and Solution Owner to join the team. In this role, you will lead the design, build and commercialization of new products and solutions by working with clients / prospects, internal stakeholders and EXL Digital Team to gather product or solution roadmap requirements, solution design it and apply those requirements to define and maintain product and solution roadmaps. You will dig deeper leveraging market analysis pundits and publications to define future direction of domain and digital trends to validate current product and solution roadmap assumptions and inform the evolution of those roadmaps. As products and solutions are ready to bring to market, you will make it happen by setting the tone internally for selling motion as well as externally for future product expectations/roadmap as appropriate. Part of your measure of success will be the creation of best-in-class solutions to meet client’s current and future needs.

In summary, your job responsibilities will include,

  • Own the overall product / solution and develop the solution based on client/market interactions
  • Lead the agile product development process
  • Co-own revenue and margin goal with our front end team
  • Understand client challenges and articulate them into solution opportunities
  • Understand market demand, industry trends and repeatability across clients
  • Collaborate and work with cross functional team on functional design
  • Validate technical solution against client needs
  • Create a viable commercial model for solution
  • Own approvals of user stories, sprint scope, backlog, and acceptance criteria
  • Own Investment request, budget tracking
  • Own Client pitches and POC creation
  • Work with marketing and front end team for GTM to generate pipeline
  • Pipeline and revenue management in collaboration with front end and delivery teams

 

Candidate Profile

  • Minimum 10 years of total work experience with proven ability and experience in agile new product / solution / service design and launch
  • Strong background, understanding and working knowledge of P&C Insurance Industry domain and understanding of emerging business and technology trends (cloud, data, AI)
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience working with global cross-functional teams with proven ability to mobilize and work with cross-functional teams to create differentiated products and solutions and value proposition for clients
  • Stakeholder management with the ability to manage conflicts, identify issues or bottlenecks and come with solutions to address the challenges
  • Excellent education pedigree – MBA preferred but not essential

·Exposure to a wide variety of agile methodology and experience in multiple client environments. Experience in driving change and transformation projects is preferred

If you are interested or know someone who might be, please let me know

Sincerely,

Larry Janis

Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

P-516-767-3030

ISSG I Twitter I LinkedIn

VP – Account Management, P&C Insurance

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Overview:

Work collaboratively with delivery teams and client to enhance customer satisfaction while scouting for expansion opportunities within the existing account resulting in increased revenues and maintaining client relationship at appropriate level. Manage teams to deliver revenue and profitability for the firm while ensuring high levels customer satisfaction and contributing to effective employee engagement programs.

 

Responsibilities:

Create and execute strategic account plans to maximize revenue and profitability by driving cross-sell, pace of volume ramps, time to proficiency and client satisfaction

Develop C-level and cross-functional contacts and touch-points in the client organization through regular objective based interaction forums and review governance cadence

Continuously keep track of client needs, gauge client satisfaction and expand client contacts through high frequency 1:1 meetings and follow through action logs

Scout and scope new opportunities within the account by participating in client’s review meetings – identify problem statements and map services and products to develop customized solutions

Mentor offshore cross-functional teams to optimize employee, infrastructure, IT,T&E other support costs through bi-monthly MIS and P&L reviews, drive the creation of action plans, review and modify action plans as required.

Mentor offshore teams for seamless project and service delivery

Qualifications:

·      Makes client the compelling focus of the business

·      Ability to establish and nurture C suite relationship

·      Possess and continuously display strategic focus and business acumen

·      Relentlessly pursue excellence

·      Foster a spirit of collaboration and teamwork

·      Attract and retain talent through effective people management

·      Have a bias for action, superior implementation

·      Be a Brand Ambassador for the organization

·      Negotiation skills

·      Intellectually agile and analytical.

·      Consistent ability to mine relationships

·      Capability to prepare budgets, review MIS.

·      Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal supervision

·      Ability to understand technology changes and identify opportunities

·      Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources including team members and other departments

·      Possess the ability to be flexible to a changing environment, acknowledging urgency when necessary

·      Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

·      React to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently

·      Flexible during times of change

·      Should be able to understand and document business Requirements wherever necessary.

·      Ability to lead, motivate and direct a work group

·      Conformance with policies at all times

·      Understanding of Insurance domain and market place to effectively manage strategic programs.

·      Knowledge of Lean principles and six sigma to manage group Black Belts.

·      Strong background in the management of insurance client relationships and large teams (people and clients)

·      Minimum 10 – 12 years of working experience, including at least last 6 years in managing teams and client relationships

If you are interested or know someone who might be:

Please let me know! Thanks in advance

Larry Janis, Managing Partner, janis@issg.net