Salesforce Functional Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary
A career with Experience Consulting services, will provide you with a unique opportunity to help our clients change customer behaviours through the experience journey starting with a strategy, then through design, and eventually implementation. You’ll focus on bringing interactive tools in the form of mobile apps, websites, or other digital platforms to ensure our clients fully integrate customer and user experiences into their organisation.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

JOB PURPOSE

A Functional Consultant must understand the clients business objectives and requirements so that they can map the requirements to the capabilities of the system they are implementing

A. JOB PROFILE

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

PwC Professional:

Whole Leadership

• Invite and provide evidence-based feedback in a timely and constructive manner
• Take ownership of my personal development
• Consistently deliver on multiple commitments, even when under pressure
• Learn from mistakes and apply learning from experiences that did not go as expected
• Share and collaborate effectively with others, creating a positive team spirit
• Make connections between what I do everyday and the firms purpose
• Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct
• Escalate inappropriate behaviour or activities and do the right thing
• Act as an ambassador for the firm at all times
• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address development areas
• Apply strategies to build mental, emotional and physical resilience
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coach to help deliver results and proactively raise issues to improve effective team working
• Support peers and team members, demonstrating you care passionately about them and their wellbeing
• Get involved in activities which help to strengthen the brand, internally and externally
• Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills which are outside of my comfort zone
• Maintain positive energy in the face of obstacles or when dealing with complexity
• Support others when things don’t go as expected
• Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development
• Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change and uncertainty
• Recognise others’ strengths and visible improvements in performance, and help them to realise their full potential
• Share and celebrate team successes
• Encourage and enable others to engage with the firms purpose and strategy
• Promote the firms values, ethics and policies so that they are recognised as central to success
• Initiate action to quickly resolve or escalate issues, which may put the firms reputation and brand at risk

Business Acumen

• Learn about how my business works and how they operate in the industry/ marketplace.
• Apply understanding of business models (including the firm’s)/corporate governance and/or regulatory frameworks of clients and identify opportunities for efficiencies and take action to implement them.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends and propose innovative solutions to problems.
• Gather information from a range of sources when analysing and solving complex problems.
• Contribute to client account planning.

Technical Capabilities

• Escalate client requests that are in conflict with the firm’s values, standards and practices
• Test your own and others’ work for quality, accuracy and relevance and develop knowledge of the firm’s line of service capabilities and portfolio of offerings.
• Develop technically through on the job learning and exposure and draw on the firm’s subject matter experts to support your work.
• Share relevant thought leadership with my colleagues to enhance knowledge.

Global Acumen

• Seek opportunities which expose you to other businesses, industries and markets.
• Facilitate collaboration across virtual teams (utilising appropriate technologies when necessary).
• Build and maintain a professional internal and external network and articulate the competitive advantage of the firm’s Network.

Relationships

• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing others.
• Read situations and am sensitive to others, modifying behaviour to build quality, diverse relationships.
• Seek and explore the background and views of others, especially when they are different to your own.
• Communicate with my clients, regularly updating them and sharing.

B. PERSON PROFILE

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EXPERIENCE

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• 4+ certifications
• 5+ Years as a functional consultant
• Delivered 20+ projects
• Project lead 2 or more times
• Business Process Analysis (Requirements gathering, liaising with stakeholders)
• Organisational Skills (Juggle multiple priorities, meet goals and deadlines)
• Interpersonal Skills (Influence people, relationship management)
• Willingness to Share Knowledge (Training, mentor)
• Project Delivery Lead