Stratevolve

Stratevolve is a fast growing dynamic firm that is seeking talented individuals. We welcome applications from individuals who can demonstrate academic excellence and success in their chosen extra curricular activities. Successful applicants will likely be highly motivated, possess outstanding analytical capabilities, and demonstrate a talent for developing innovative solutions.

We offer excellent learning and professional development opportunities through exposure to a wide variety of industries, strategy projects, and business issues. We provide ongoing training and education in strategy management, including opportunities to develop strategy thought leadership papers for publication.

Stratevolve’s non-hierarchical environment provides early exposure to senior management and strategic issues and enables consultants to take the initiative and progress according to their interests and desire to learn. Contributions from all levels of consultants are encouraged to help develop innovative business solutions. We operate as a true meritocracy and reward and progression is based on demonstrated competence and project results.

If you’d like to learn more about interim project and career opportunities at Stratevolve, please send a message to emma.herbert@stratevolve.com providing background information including your academic credentials, work experience, and current aspirations.

CURRENT CONTRACT VACANCIES:

1. Senior Strategic Change Business Consultant

Contract role with competitive rates – based in central London on client site

A senior business consultant is needed to successfully guide and manage a major business transformation project connected with implementing a new IT system. The applicant should have significant experience in managing business transformation efforts on behalf of multi-national organisations. Of key importance are skills in eliciting business requirements to inform the IT implementation, gaining co-operation and support of senior client personnel, change management, workshop design and facilitation, and managing a team of business analysts to gather and specify business requirements.

Successful applicants will ideally have the following profile:

• Significant experience (10 + years) in managing large complex business transformation engagements
• Proven track record of successful management, implementation and realisation of benefits for large complex multi-year projects
• Ideally a background in Big 4 or major management consultancy in a senior business change role
• Knowledgeable about ERP IT implementation and packages and aligning IT with business strategy
• Experience of working in liaison role with 3rd party packaged software implementation firms
• Demonstrated senior management workshop facilitation skills and experience
• Excellent academic track record from a leading university
• Experience of working in multiple sectors

Successful applicants will be highly motivated individuals with a proven track record of successful business transformation projects, advanced report writing and project management capabilities, outstanding customer service ethos and excellent inter-personal skills.

The initial engagement will extend over 2 to 3 months with potential for further extensions. To be based on client site in central London.

2. Lead Business Analyst Role

Contract role with competitive rates – based in central London on client site

The Lead Business Analyst role involves undertaking an analytical exercise to elicit, analyse, specify and validate business and user requirements to support the development of a solution which enables the reporting of survey and audit results for a professional services firm.

The technical solution is a bespoke application which will integrate into a global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation.

Responsibilities

• Plan & elicit user requirements using an appropriate combination of elicitation techniques (existing documentation study, interviews with stakeholders, focus groups, observation, user task analysis, facilitated workshops etc), covering the in-scope process areas.
• Analyse and specify requirements into a set of business and user level use cases which define the interactions between the users and systems, define the business rules and highlight supporting data requirements.
• Validate the user requirements through identification and engagement of appropriate stakeholders, both internal and external to the organisation.
• Complete analysis of existing reference data and develop proposals for an improved solution set.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven track record working as a business analyst on major IT business transformation projects
• Experience of working with 3rd parties on packaged software (COTS) implementation, ideally Oracle E-Business Suite as well as bespoke development projects
• Familiarity with Use Case development
• Workshop facilitation skills and experience
• Excellent academic track record from a leading university
• Big 4 or major IT consulting firm background and experience
• Experience of working in multiple sectors
• 5 + years of sound experience of developing business requirements for projects on behalf of major multi-national organisations

Successful applicants will be highly motivated individuals with a proven track record of successful business transformation projects, advanced report writing and project management capabilities, outstanding customer service ethos and excellent inter-personal skills.

The initial engagement will extend over 6 months with high probability of further extensions. To be based on client site in central London.

3. Financial Process Analyst Role

The Financial Process Analyst role involves undertaking an analytical exercise to understand and re-engineer the existing business processes connected with invoicing and related processes.

Working as part of an established team consulting to a large global blue chip organisation, the analyst will lead the analysis of the global time & expense reporting system inputs, processes and outputs, the processes that trigger, calculate and generate an invoice as well as revenue recognition. This analysis will support the design and implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

Responsibilities

• Establish workstream scope, complete stakeholder analysis and develop interview & information collection plan
• Gather required information through interviews and desk-based research
• Complete the analysis of gathered information and distil insights into a proposed solution
• Validate the proposed solution with the stakeholder group
• Specify the operational and financial procedures that will be required to support the proposed solution
• Understand and document the strategic change implications of the proposed processes and system solution

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven track record working on major finance system implementation or finance transformation projects
• Background in finance or accountancy, ideally a qualified chartered accountant
• Experience of working with 3rd parties on packaged software (COTS) implementation
• Familiarity with established business process analysis and re-engineering tools and techniques
• Workshop facilitation skills and experience
• Excellent academic track record from a leading university
• 5 + years of relevant professional services experience within Big 4 or major consulting firms

Successful applicants will be highly motivated individuals with a proven track record of successful business transformation projects, advanced report writing and project management capabilities, outstanding customer service ethos and excellent inter-personal skills.

The initial engagement will commence in March 2013 and extend over 4 months with a high probability of further extensions. To be based on client site in central London.

For more information or to apply for any of the roles, please e-mail an up to date copy of your CV to emma.herbert@stratevolve.com