Consulting Manager
Seeking dynamic services professional who can work with sales professionals to scope projects, manage implementation projects, and manage customer relationships. Candidate is responsible for recruiting senior talent and developing their careers in accordance with Column5’s standards. Candidates should have experience in similar roles in a management capacity for a consulting group or vendor in the Enterprise Management industry. Generous salary, benefits, and bonus plan. Candidate must have experience with an Enterprise Performance Management tool such as (Cognos, Hyperion, BPC, BOBJ, etc.). Please do not apply if you do not have this.

Skills
Project Management (Collaboration with Project Management Office)

• Creating and executing project work plans to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Identify resource needs and assign individual responsibilities.
• Manages day-to-day operational aspects of a projects budget, schedule, risks and scope.
• Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing on to client.
• Effectively applying implementation methodology and enforcing project standards.
• Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
• Minimizing exposure and risk on project.
• Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Understands standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) as well as methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
• Understands Project and Program management methodologies.

Project Accounting

• Assures project legal documents are completed and signed.
• Documents risks and impacts throughout the project cycles.
• Tracks and reviews team hours and expenses on a weekly basis.
• Manages project budget, projections and profitability
• Determines appropriate revenue recognition, ensures timely and accurate invoicing, and monitors receivables for projects in collaboration with Client’s Accounting Department.
• Analyzes project profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates, utilization.
• Accurately forecasts revenue burn, resource needs and resource utilization.

Business Development

• Identifies business development and "add-on" sales opportunities as they relate to a specific project and communicates these to the regional manager or sales team.
• Collaborates with sales to prepare proposals and project scoping for new opportunities
• Participates in sales and marketing events with Sales team when necessary.

Communication

• Facilitates regular team and client communications to ensure clarity of the project goals, requirements and expectations.
• Holds regular status meetings with project team.
• Effectively communicates relevant project information to all stakeholders, sponsors and superiors.
• Delivers informative & well-organized presentations.
• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
• Possesses the skill to diplomatically say ‘No’ without alienating client or the development teams - Manages the project goals and constraints first and bring the client and teams to an understanding of the impacts of even small changes at later phases of the project.

Technical Understanding/ Business Acumen

• Possesses an understanding of finance processes (budgeting, planning and forecasting cycles)
• Is familiar with one or more financial planning tools (ideally BPC)
• Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design.
• Possesses a thorough understanding of Client’s capabilities.
• Maintains awareness of all of Column5’s service offerings as well as new and emerging EPM technologies, services and their potential application on client engagements.

 PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES

• Leadership
• Challenges others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model and mentor.
• Manages the development teams by ensuring that project tasks are in line with each resources ability and strengths.
• Inspires coworkers to attain goals and pursue excellence.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and makes constructive suggestions for change.
• Promotes and manages the process of innovative change.
• Remains on the forefront of emerging industry practices.

Teamwork

• Consistently acknowledges and leverages each team member's strengths and contributions.
• Effectively utilizes each team member to his/her fullest potential.
• Motivates team to work together in the most efficient manner.
• Keeps track of lessons learned and shares those lessons with team members and consolidates for process improvements.
• Mitigates team conflict and communication problems.

Client Management

• Manages day-to-day client interaction as appropriate for each project.
• Sets and manages client expectations.
• Develops lasting relationships with client personnel that foster client ties.
• Communicates effectively with clients to identify needs and effective business solutions.
• Continually seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
• Builds a knowledge base of each client's business, organization and objectives.
• Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion

Internal Operations

• Identifies areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions.
• Leads internal teams and contributes to internal service building projects as appropriate  
• Approves team members' time and expense reports in a conscientious and timely manner.
• Reviews the status reports of team members and addresses issues as appropriate.
• Manages project profitability goals
• Manages team expenses to meet client and Client’s expanse policies.
• Complies with and helps to enforce standard policies and procedures.