Principal Business Consultant at Temenos

Job description

The Principal Business Consultant is responsible for coordinating and ensuring successful implementation of their functional area of expertise. The Principal Business Consultant plays the role of interface between the project team and the client and ensures that all actions are taken to fully satisfy the client’s functional needs in their business/functional domain. The Principal Business Consultant is also responsible for providing guidance and coaching to less experienced consultants.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Recognised internally has specialist on complex functional and business matters. Works independently and in collaborative nature. Has completely master business skills required to accomplish the job. Provide guidance, coaching and advice to less experienced consultants. Individual with a customer focus who has developed the acumen to cultivate and build lasting customer relations.
• Analyze and validate all client business requirements and relate them to TEMENOS products capability.
• Review client organization, processes and workflows and propose of a ‘post-picture’ to maximize the benefit from TEMENOS products.
• Validate all functional decisions for the projects to ensure optimum utilization of TEMENOS products.
• Make recommendations on best banking practices to the Project Manager and alert him on practices that might damage the Clients business or contradict legal requirements, before recognition as a problem by the Client.
• Provide consultancy and advice to clients and TEMENOS consultants on matters related to the implementation of TEMENOS products.
• Define and validate customization needs for TEMENOS products as per agreed business definitions.
• Coordinate with the TEMENOS maintenance groups to ensure that the product problems identified are understood and resolved.
• Run workshops and benchmarks to meet specific project needs.
• Provide assistance to the Project Manager, for the planning and conduct all aspects of the implementation of TEMENOS products.
• Supervise, if and when needed, over specific functional parts of the implementation plan. Perform such other duties, functions and services, consistent with status or vocational ability, as may from time to time be required.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Educational & Proficiency level: Professional with a minimum of seven years of experience in Finance or in banking software consultancy.
• Technical knowledge: In depth understanding of financial and banking processes, like Credits, Accounting, Treasury, MI, Asset Management, Securities, Trade Finance, Retail. IT oriented: knowledge of a banking software application; excellent knowledge in PowerPoint, Excel as well as other MS Office environment applications.
• Others: This job involves complex activities demanding considerable coordination to effectively achieve the jobs end results. Awareness of other jobs in the project team is necessary as the job activities either influence or are influenced by these. Fully understand and be able to deploy the TEMENOS Implementation Methodology.