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Key Deliverables
Working with the Business Insight team and key stakeholders:
- Delivery of early benefits, specifically FP&A and Indirect Tax Tools
- Delivery of 3E reporting catalogue identified through the global design phase
- Delivery of a user interface to navigate users to the required reports
- Delivery of business insight based on analysis of data, identification of trends, anomalies
- The provision of ad hoc support to decision makers facilitating Dentons to become a data driven organisation through having access to timely data that is both reliable and able to be interpreted by senior stakeholders
Key Responsibilities
- As the Global Lead – Business Insight you will manage the Business Insight Process Analyst and establish relationships with the regional subject matter experts and SI partners. This role will support Dentons through design and into implementation of early benefits.
Other responsibilities as follows:
- To ensure that the process for the extraction of data from underlying systems and the collation of that data into a global database is efficient, monitored and reconciled
- To understand and work with the wider team to deliver an efficient end to end Business Insight solution, to include the management and control of data, consistent application of the access and security models, ensuring data consistency across all systems
- To create, manage and deploy dashboards/reporting within the global Business Insight architecture, supporting global and regional team members as required, to include 3E and PowerBi reporting
- To embrace ongoing change and improve both process and quality of deliverables, providing clear explanations and training as changes are rolled out
- To work with the technical reporting team to ensure all data is reconciled as it is transformed and regions and global teams have complete transparency of the data back to source systems
- To ensure all key stakeholders are fully aware of the resources available to them and fully trained in their use
- To work with the data stewards and wider finance transformation data team to ensure that data clean up activity delivers business benefit to support better decision making
- To create and manage such documentation and on-line tool support text as necessary
- To proactively review and incorporate cross regional working data, partner credit data, key performance indicators and global measures into regular reporting and insight
- To support the process for ongoing data management and governance and work within the guidelines
- The post holder will also be responsible for identifying (scoping) and collecting (liaising with colleagues globally) regarding the data required to generate new metrics and the definition of those key metrics, working alongside the Global Finance Transformation data and reporting team
Global Finance Transformation Design Authority engagement and Senior Leadership stakeholder management:
- Work with the Finance Transformation Record to Report team on stakeholder management:
- Represent important and challenging design decisions and supporting business rationale to enable design decisions to be made;
- Support governance of the agreed design throughout the lifecycle of build and implementation;
- Support engagement with Finance Transformation Regional Process Leads and SMEs in the organization to ensure that all requirements are being met.
Support for risk and issue management:
- Identify and analyse project risks and dependancies. Support the Finance Transformation – Work with Record to Report Team to resolve issues through engagement with the Business Design Authority.
Support development of design and blueprint:
- Attendance and participation in Business Design /Blueprint workshops to ensure that the Target Operating Model is consistently represented
- A broad, enterprise-wide view of Dentons and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
About You
- Business international level of English – both written and oral.
- Demonstrable and progressive experience in the areas of data manipulation and analytics,
- A fastidiousness for accurate, reconciled analysis with the personality to not rest until imbalances are found
- Experience of influencing and engaging stakeholders, including building and managing relationships within a diverse global firm.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage conflicting demands.
- Strong intellectual rigor and commercial awareness.
- Strategically focused, results driven and superior analytical skills, with the ability to translate analysis into recommendations.
- The individual will need to combine good technical skills with accuracy and the ability to cope under pressure, given the demands of the work involved and business requirements.
- Problem solving skills, supported by high quality data analysis are critical for this role, along with strong communication skills.
- Solutions orientated with the ability to address problems by gathering relevant information and formulating alternatives
- Structured, collaborative, accurate and with a drive to perfection
Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Extensive experience planning and deploying either business or IT initiatives within global organisations
- Provide leadership and direction through the life of Transformation Programs
- Data analysis, creating and modeling business data using a variety of tools and techniques, to meet the needs of stakeholders;
Data warehousing concepts
- Able to communicate insight derived in relevant business language to enable informed decision making:
- Working with enterprise wide databases, observing global access and security protocols and assisting in the effective management of global master data
- Analysing and interpreting market data for an organisation, quickly establishing key metrics/measures to support the Business Development department
- Strong communication skills and the demonstrable ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations;
Strong situational analysis and ability to articulate the true requirements;
- Must be a team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
- Be able to identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and "truths" and bring an open mind to understanding and build on the views of others;
- Business development/client data analyst, within a team on international projects;
- Creator of both functional and non-functional documentation, including requirements traceability matrices.
You will possess:
- The ability to act as a liaison conveying information in suitably accurate models between the Business and their counterparts within Information Technology. The scope of this information includes business requirements, data constraints, business rules, models of strategy and motivation, processes, accountabilities, and many other business and IT operational needs;
- The ability to recognise structural issues within organizations, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies. Those issues may exist in role alignment, process gaps and overlaps, and business capability maturity gaps;
- The ability to apply architectural principles, methods, and tools to business challenges;
- The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to Dentons and to high-priority business issues;
- The ability to visualize and create high-level models (rigorous information-rich diagrams) that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture;
- Possess a broad, enterprise-wide view of organizations and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance.
- SSRS reporting and administering Reporting Services
Essential Qualifications / Experience
- Considerable experience of working on international projects,
- Experienced in creating both functional and non-functional documentation, including requirements traceability matrices
- Data Analytics tools, Microsoft tools expertise, to include Office, in particular Excel, and PowerBi.
- MS Azure SQL; Visual Studio
- Experience of working with Thomson Reuters 3E, Data Insights and PowerBi
- SSRS reporting and administration of Reporting Services
- Applications from current residents in the following cities, will be considered:
London or Warsaw
Disclaimer: Please ensure when applying for this role that you are legally eligible to work/live in your preferred location. Visa sponsorship or relocation costs will not be provided
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Key Areas of Focus
- Working with the GFT 3E Service Delivery team and Systems Implementer, establish, communicate and manage against priorities and required timelines whilst ensuring delivery supports technical and business outcomes.
- Alignment of 3E development activities across GFT teams; accomplished by working with peer roles.
- Ongoing evaluation and improvement of service delivery services (e.g., release management, vendor workflow, testing and issue resolution).
- Continual monitoring of tools and approaches to ensure alignment with Dentons standards and best practices.
- Effective and timely communication with vendors, GFT team and internal stakeholders.
- Working with regional development teams to ensure we deliver solutions meeting global design requirements and aligned with regional software solutions.
- Effective and timely status reports to Business, Technology and transformation team leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively manage 3E delivery work against priorities and required timelines.
- Design of requirements, development of functional and technical documentation, testing processes and acceptance criteria relating to 3E delivery.
- Ensure documented standards are maintained.
- Involvement in DevOps framework and alignment of Delivery team’s activities to agreed priorities and deadlines.
- Support agreed upon build and release process used for 3E delivery activities.
- Working with the Global Solution Architect, ensure environments support timelines and requirements of deployment schedule and sequencing.
- Assist with the planning and control of 3E build, QA and functional test and defect resolution.
- Proactively liaise with System Implementer, TRE, Business Process leads and Business Solution Architect to resolve requirements queries.
- Actively manage delivery issues and risks.
About You
- Business international level of English – both written and oral;
- Highly collaborative and able to work in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered;
- Particularly strong written communication skills;
- Particularly strong organizational skills;
- Strong knowledge and experience in IT/Finance practices;
- Experience of multinational IT and Finance operations;
- Experience working as part of global business and/or technology transformation programs;
- Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Experience of working within a fast-paced agile / DevOps project and/or operational environment
- Ability to clarify complex problems and communicate these issues towards both DevOps and business teams;
- Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities with experience in balancing technical trade-offs;
- Be a team player, able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
- Drive out decisions and recommendations;
- Independent, pro-active way of working.
- Knowledge of development strategies, approaches and tools.
- Ability to drive a development project from start to finish whilst delivering on time.
- Experience of legal finance and practice management systems (especially 3E) and supporting solutions and technologies (time & billing) will be highly desirable.
You will possess:
- Post-secondary education with a specialization in Information Technology.
- Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with legal platforms across a broad spectrum of technologies.
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Key Deliverables
- Design, development and implementation of the Global Automation Framework Delivery.
- Development of automation scripts for build / test / release deploy.
- Help define the pipeline automaton process
- Coordination of activities related to automation pipelines to ensure consistent and speedy delivery of project workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Design, Strategy, and Planning
- Maintain knowledge of Dentons’ strategic business objectives to help ensure that test packs are aligned with overarching firm objectives.
- Working with the business, provide guidance on the best solutions to achieve the firm’s automation testing needs.
- Work alongside transformation project teams, vendors, and Dentons experts to develop innovative automation test methods
- Challenge the “status-quo” to help develop innovative approaches to testing. Think out of the box, and challenge others (vendors and team members) to do the same to come up with the best solutions.
Ensure tests are highly optimized to ensure the test plans meet defined business requirements.
- Developing Pipelines YAML
- Powershell, Azure CLI
- Azure Infrastructure
- PowerShell
- Git management
- API Automation
- SOAP UI
- Knowledge of continuous integration
- Ensure test and development environments are meeting required standards.
- Help support global platforms by providing hands on support as required.
- Assist with regional support and integration activities throughout the globe. This would include occasional travel to various regions to assist with hands on efforts, as well as providing day to day support as required.
- Post-secondary education with a specialization in Information Technology.
- Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with testing across a broad spectrum of technologies.
Skills
About You
- Business international level of English – both written and oral;
- Highly collaborative and able to work in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered;
- Particularly strong written communication skills;
- Particularly strong organizational skills;
- Strong knowledge and experience in IT/Finance practices;
- Experience in systems, including: TRE 3E, IntApp Open, IntApp Integrate, Intapp Time, Chrome River, E-Billing.
- Experience of multinational IT and Finance operations;
- Experience of transformation programs;
- Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Ability to clarify complex problems and communicate these issues towards both DevOps and business teams;
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities with experience in balancing technical trade-offs;
- Be a team player, able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
- Drive out decisions and recommendations;
- Independent, pro-active way of working.
- Significant working experience with traditional testing cycles in a global environment.
- Strong experience in testing methodologies and systems.
- Working experience with implementation life cycles, methodologies, tools and practices.
- Formal IT qualifications or accreditations (for instance, ISTQB, ITIL, Prince 2, MCSE).
- A good understanding of standards and frameworks (for instance, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials).
- Demonstrable experience of managing effective relationships with third party suppliers.
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Key Deliverables
1. Design and development of the Elite 3E and supporting platforms’ integration points tenable the financial transformation initiative.
2. Work closely with the global integration team tensure the platform design is tightly integrated with the other global platforms and data elements.
3. Interact with regional integration teams tensure the global platform works well with their other processes and integrate well with regional platforms.
4. Effective and timely status reports tthe Integration Team Lead, and with other team members.
5. Support of other global transformation initiatives in a similar capacity.
Key Responsibilities
- Developing integrations and ensuring all relevant requirements surrounding an application integration is fulfilled.
- Documenting of relevant data flows specifications for developed integrations.
- Working closely with finance and other relevant teams in Dentons' global offices tensure that all granular integration requirements are implemented and developed.
- Engaging with stakeholders such as the Integration Leads and the regional Project Management team around blockers and risks tproject timelines.
- Liaising with Regional Integration Leads tensure we are operating tthe Global integration principles and working with the most recent Global requirements.
- Working with Integration Analysts tensure requirements are gathered and developed for relevant applications.
- Delivering integration code in a timely and consistent fashion.
- Building and maintaining excellent working relationships with key stakeholders
- Acting as the key point of contact for integration related questions for relevant application.
Build, Test, Deploy
- Build and implement software solutions that support the firm’s strategic plans for Business Technology delivery and transformation.
- Design and maintain well-documented guidelines on software and coding principles at Dentons.
- Provide regular input as tdeveloping technology trends, in particular but not limited to, the core legal software solutions that are used in, or of interest tthe firm.
- As part of the Development and Integration group, the integration developer will help other members of the team in terms of supporting global developments and integrations, thelp cover different time zones.
Relationships
This role will frequently interact and maintain good working relationships with the following people and roles:
- The Global Director, Integration Services
- The Global Finance Transformation Integration Lead
- Regional database administrators
- Global advisory group members, and in particular, the Information Architecture advisory group
- Other members of the Development and integration teams
- Vendors and partners’ technical teams
About You
- Business international level of English – both written and oral;
- Highly collaborative and able twork in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered;
- Particularly strong written communication skills;
- Particularly strong organizational skills;
- Strong knowledge and experience in IT/Finance practices;
- Experience of multinational IT and Finance operations;
- Knowledge of TRE 3E database structure and customisation process;
- Experience in related legal systems such as Chrome River, Intapp Time, e-billing;
- Experience in integration tools used in a legal environment such as Intapp;
- Experience of transformation programs;
- Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
Ability tclarify complex problems and communicate these issues towards both DevOps and business teams;
- Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities with experience in balancing technical trade-offs;
- Be a team player, able twork effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability tinfluence others tmove toward consensus;
- Drive out decisions and recommendations;
- Independent, pro-active way of working.
- Proficient with the Elite 3E platform and supporting technologies (Data Analytics, time & billing, integration).
- Knowledge of Intapp Integrate, Dell Boomi, Azure Data Factory, SQL, SOAP or REST API technologies.
- Experience with SQL Server environments on an Azure platform;
- Strong analytic skills and attention tdetail, passionate about refining and optimizing data flows tensure speed and efficiency.
You will possess:
- Excellent communications, influencing, and stakeholder management skills;
- Excellent presentation skills with ability tconduct presentations comfortably tlarge groups;
- Experienced user of MS Office suite;
- Be versed in working across cultures and time-zones;
- Bring a technical "toolkit" and share relevant best practice;
- Be adept in responding tchallenges and issues as they arise;
- Be able tthrive working under pressure, and be able tmulti-task;
- Extensive experience of working with layers of engagement and approval;
- Impeccable attention tdetail and ability twork with a wide variety of people and projects in a collective and collaborative manner.
Essential Qualifications / Experience
- Post-secondary education with a specialization in Information Technology – or
- Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with development across a broad spectrum of technologies.
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Key Deliverables
1. Deployment of Azure infrastructure and finance applications to enable transformation initiatives.
2. Working with users within the development environment to validate corresponding infrastructure meets the desired purpose.
3. Coordination of activities to ensure consistent and speedy delivery of solutions.
4. Effective and timely status reports to Business Technology and transformation team leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Build, Test, Deploy
- Develop scripts and templates to deliver finance systems application and infrastructure requirements.
- Manage and coordinate vendor activities to ensure the successful delivery of solutions.
- Ensure solutions are deployed according to defined architectures, aligned with budgets, fully tested and documented.
Environment Management
- Validating and ensuring development and testing environments are functioning to defined standards as required.
- Ensure agreed development framework procedures are adhered to, including performance monitoring and systems access guidelines. Working with regional and global
About You
- Business international level of English – both written and oral;
- Highly collaborative and able to work in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered;
- Particularly strong written communication skills;
- Particularly strong organizational skills;
- Knowledge and experience with IT/Finance practices;
- Experience with finance systems, including: TRE 3E,
- Experience of multinational IT and Finance operations;
- Experience of transformation programs;
- Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Ability to clarify complex problems and communicate these issues towards both DevOps and business teams;
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities with experience in balancing technical trade-offs;
- Be a team player, able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
- Drive out decisions and recommendations;
- Independent, pro-active way of working.
- Working experience with implementation life cycles, methodologies, tools and practices.
- Formal IT qualifications or accreditations (for instance, ITIL, Prince 2, MCSE).
- A good understanding of standards and frameworks (for instance, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials).
- Demonstrable experience of managing effective relationships with third party suppliers.
You will possess:
Essential Qualifications / Experience
- Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with infrastructure across a broad spectrum of technologies
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About the role
This is a demanding and multi-faceted role, requiring strong people skills, thorough project management and organisational skills, a sense of humour and critically tenacity. Execution of the role with the business change impact bias is critical to assist in prioritisation and to work with the Global Business design team to bring together the individual processes into a coherent global solution that can deliver the business benefits to Dentons in terms of Finance becoming a business partnering function, on time and within budget.
You will work with the global process leads to confirm and maintain those delivery timelines, escalating 'blockers' as appropriate, enabling cross-work stream dependencies to be identified and managed; all with the aim to increase the efficiency and velocity of project execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Create and maintain project management documentation and metrics with limited direction
- Engage directly with stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate communications
- Responsible for project execution strategy, to include meeting stage gate delivery deadlines and management of overall project timelines.
- Support the Global Finance Transformation leadership team in driving the GFTP delivery plan for all regions.
- Support the global process leads in managing relevant suppliers – to include assistance in concluding contracts, managing statements of work, reviewing and approving invoices.
- Assists in the benefits tracking process as directed by GFT leadership
- Liaise with leadership teams in the wider Dentons project portfolio to identify potential impacts to GFT program
- Responsible for project reporting in line with the GFTP Project Management Office quality standards, to include maintenance of plans, RAID logs, stage gate compliance monitoring and status reporting.
- Work with the global process leads to manage resource allocation,
- Adopt collaborative, focussed management techniques, working with DevOps mentality to enable all team members to play to their strengths to deliver the required transformation to Dentons
- Facilitate regular status meetings as required.
- Work together with the change and training teams to coordinate meetings/materials/messaging during design and delivery.
- To be proactive in seeking updates, liaising closely with technical counterparts as required across the Firm to identify risks presented by potential project slips and blockers, sharing best practice and enabling close and effective collaboration within the team.
Planning / Project Management / Program Approach
- Working with Global Process Leads and business architects to maintain workstream plans and ensure alignment with global program plan
- Assist the leadership team in resource planning
- Ensure that program resource levels / quality are appropriate to support delivery of the implementation plan
- Track progress against plan, ensuring that the business design team provide timely updates to enable actionable status reporting to the GFT leadership
- Ensure the global process team understand how to apply Global Program standards for RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, Decisions) management and reporting
- Work with Business Solutions Architects to identify critical path activities and maintain focus on their delivery, managing the potential scope creep through effective change management protocols.
- Work with Global Change Management and Training Leads, to ensure the global business process team support all aspects of the implementation
- Provide Global Business Process team visibility using One Step Ahead workshops etc. Arranging for additional communication / education about upcoming milestones as required
- Working with and coaching the team members around project delivery methodologies to maximise program success.
- Work with the Global Business Process Team to ensure go live requirements are well articulated for each region, to include the impact of customisations communicated and the associated priorities assigned to Functional Requirement Documentation review and communication.
- Work with the Business Solutions Architects to manage the change process for GFT, managing the process for submission to TDA and BDA and outcomes from both authorities being passed to Program Board and Enterprise Steering Committee. This will include liaison with regions re status of requests, and escalations as required. Provide secretarial role to the Business Design Authority under the direction of the Global Business Solution Architect
- Coordinate unit testing and the collation of regional business scenarios, working with the global testing team.
- Ensure that all process documentation, policies and training material for the solution is created
- Work with the Global Business Process Team and Global PMO to manage and execute the various Stage Gate ceremonies
- Ensure the appropriate collateral is produced to evidence achievement of various stage gate criteria
- Solution Delivery
- Stage Gate Methodology
Competencies:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management/Change or Behavioral Management or related field (or similar experience).
- Significant experience in a Project Manager role for business/finance transformation .
- Experience with large system implementations
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Practical experience and knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies and concepts.
- Strong waterfall and agile project management skills.
- PRINCE2 certification preferred
- Proficiency in Project Management Software, MS Office, MS Teams, DevOps required.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders at different levels.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Financial experience within a comparable professional services or management consulting environment, including familiarity with Swiss Verein or similar legal operating models
- Recognised project management experience including in-depth understanding of data analysis, financial planning and process improvement. Six Sigma or equivalent qualifications helpful
About You
Business international level of English – both written and oral;
- Highly collaborative and able to work in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered;
- Ability to thrive in busy, fast moving environments and work with teams to bring out the best in them
- Impeccable attention to detail and ability to work with a wide variety of people and projects in a collective and collaborative manner
- Particularly strong written communication skills;
- Particularly strong organizational skills;
- Strong knowledge and experience in Finance/IT practices
- Experience in systems, including: TRE 3E, Tagetik, Elite Data Insights, PowerBi
- Experience of multinational finance operations;
- Experience of working with layers of engagement and approval
- Experience of finance / business transformation programs;
Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Proven experience in delivery of enterprise-wide programs in complex organizations
- Demonstrable understanding of working within program governance frameworks and to documented delivery principles
- Strong background/knowledge of finance and technology
- Strong stakeholder management, across both business and technology
- Experience applying and delivering business transformation projects
- Experience delivering in an Agile environment
Essential Qualifications / Experience
- Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with IT/Business Change Projects across a broad spectrum of technologies.
- Experience of working on international projects
- Experience of working in a legal / professional services firm
- Management of at least two full end to end implementations
- Prince 2 / Agile (desirable)
What we can offer
Dentons is always looking to invest in the highest-quality talent, recognizing that our success is built on the diverse and unique strengths of each of the members of our Firm. Our team of business services professionals play a significant role in the success of Dentons, and we recruit Talent into a wide variety of areas. Here, we look for focused, flexible individuals from a variety of backgrounds who are team players. Previous experience within the legal sector is not essential. We want to give everyone the opportunity to develop his or her potential fully and, therefore, provide support, training and encouragement to members of teams at all levels.
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Key Deliverables
Delivery of robust and reconciled global and regional reports, meeting the specifications provided, and following best practice in terms of using the capabilities of PowerBi. These reports will include:
- client and matter reporting,
- firm performance reporting
- Delivery of self guided analytics to support effective user interaction with the data
- Delivery of reporting to assist in the identification of data anomalies and to form part of data reconciliation routines
- The provision of ad hoc support to users, facilitating Dentons to become a data driven organisation through having access to timely data that is both reliable and able to be interpreted by senior stakeholders
- To create insightful, performant, robust and reconciled management reports based on Azure tabular models and other data sources as required, applying best practice in report design and leveraging the capabilities of PowerBi
- To create and deploy dashboards/reporting within the global Business Insight architecture, supporting global and regional team members as required
- To understand and work with the global team to deliver an efficient Business Insight solution
- To embrace ongoing change and improve both process and quality of deliverables, providing clear explanations as changes are rolled out
- To work with the technical reporting team to provide reports for data reconciliation through the data transformation process, to ensure that regional and global teams have complete transparency of the data back to source systems
- To produce formats and templates to support regional teams creating standardised and consistent quality reports for a global audience
- To contribute reports to a global Marketplace to support the sharing of report templates across the regions
- To provide ad hoc support for other PowerBi report writers
- To support the data stewards and wider finance transformation data team with reports and analysis as required for them to ensure that data clean up activity delivers business benefit to support better decision making
- To create and update such documentation and online tool support text as necessary
Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Graphical and text based management report development
- Analysing and interpreting market data for an organisation, quickly establishing key metrics/measures to support business insights
- Strong communication skills and the demonstrable ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications
- Be able to identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and "truths" and bring an open mind to understanding and build on the views of others
- Report developer, within a team on international projects
- Creating technical documentation
- Working with enterprise wide databases, observing global access and security protocols and assisting in the effective management of global master data
- Working with large reporting data volumes
- Working with live data connections
- Analysing, creating and modelling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
- Strong situational analysis and ability to articulate requirements
- A team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
You will possess:
- A fastidiousness for accurate, reconciled analysis with the personality to not rest until imbalances are found
- Demonstrable and progressive experience in developing visual reports for a variety of audiences for senior management, clients and other business users
- A strong sense of effective visual presentations
- The ability to visualize how to turn data into insightful graphical based analysis and reports
- A strong creative streak
- Confidence linking reports to a variety of underlying data source types
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work with stringent timelines. Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Problem solving skills, supported by high quality data analysis
- The ability to address problems by gathering relevant information and formulating alternatives which are solutions orientated
- The ability to be a good team player, able to coordinate tasks and work well with the other team members
- Strong intellectual rigor and commercial awareness
Key Responsibilities
About You
- Experience of influencing and engaging stakeholders, including building and managing relationships within a diverse global firm
Technical Expertise
- Over 5 years experience in practical report development and support
- Significant experience in practical report development and support using Power BI
- Advanced skillset with the Microsoft and associated platforms/tools, including:
- Working on global projects , accommodating different time zones, building relationships with a diverse range of people
- Working in a legal/professional services firm
- Understanding of key finance terminology and reporting requirements
- Translating business requirements into insightful reports
- Creating technical documentation
- Adhering to agreed report presentation standards
- Business international level of English – both written and oral
- Highly collaborative. Only team players with a track record of effective collaboration will be considered
- Strong written communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Self-starter and able to take initiative when/where required
- Power BI
- DAX
- SSRS
- Other reporting software
- Understanding of Azure tabular models and Analysis Services
- Microsoft O365
- Microsoft DevOps
- Github
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Key Responsibilities
Design, Strategy, and Planning
- Maintain knowledge of Dentons’ strategic business objectives to help ensure that system designs are aligned with overarching firm objectives.
- Document and develop in-depth knowledge of the Firms existing IT infrastructure and technology services.
- Ensure operational policies and procedures align with enterprise platforms and business requirements.
- Work alongside transformation project teams, vendors, and Dentons experts to develop and document innovative platform architectures.
- Challenge the “status-quo” to help develop innovative approaches to systems delivery. Think out of the box, and challenge others (vendors and team members) to do the same to come up with the best solutions.
- Ensure designs are highly resilient to ensure the availability of systems and to meet defined business requirements.
- Ensure designs take advantage of cloud capabilities for auto-scaling and platform automation.
- Conduct research and remain current with the latest technologies and solutions
- Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of IT systems, including networks, data centers, servers, PCs, operating systems, and associated hardware.
- Analyze existing operations and make recommendations for the improvement and growth of the network infrastructure and IT systems.
- Post-secondary education with a specialization in Information Technology.
- Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with infrastructure across a broad spectrum of technologies.
Build, Test, Deploy
- Provide hands on assistance during the build, testing, and deployment of solutions.
- Develop automation templates, scripts, and processes to enable the efficient delivery of hosting platforms.
- Manage and coordinate activities to ensure the successful delivery of solutions.
- Ensure solutions are deployed according to defined architectures, aligned with budgets, and fully tested.
Operational Support
- Provide operational assistance and oversight in support of both regional and enterprise systems as required.
- Ensure operational procedures are adhered to, including monitoring, disaster recovery, and patching.
- Help support enterprise platforms by providing hands on support as required.
- Help to ensure enterprise platforms kept current with regular application patching and upgrades.
- Assist with regional support and integration activities throughout the globe.
- Provide assistance with the coordination of operational activities including both internal and external stakeholders.
About You
Technical Skills
- Proficient in endpoint support in a Microsoft Windows managed environment.
- Strong understanding of the “cloud” – with a specific focus on Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS technologies.
- Significant working experience with Windows based server infrastructures in a global environment.
- Understanding of networking, and firewall technologies on a global scale.
- Working experience with implementation life cycles, methodologies, tools and practices.
- Formal IT qualifications or accreditations (for instance, ITIL, Prince 2, MCSE).
- Understanding of standards and frameworks (for instance, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials).
- Understanding and experience of business continuity requirements and implementations.
- Experience with administration and support of Microsoft Windows 10, Windows Server
- Experience with administration and support of Microsoft Active Directory, Systems Center (SCCM) for endpoint management.
- Experience with administration and support of Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS, and Office 365 SaaS services.
- Business international level of English – with strong written and oral communication skills.
- Highly collaborative and able to work in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered.
- Strong knowledge and experience in IT/Operational practices.
- Able to effectively negotiate with and influence colleagues and others to achieve a successful outcome.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills; can clearly explain and present problems and issues to others and contribute to their resolution.
- Can demonstrate initiative and the ability to be proactive, anticipating needs.
- Has commercial awareness and understands the business value required from IT investments.
- Able to make decisions and remain calm while under pressure.
- Methodical approach to work with a strong focus on accuracy, attention to details, consistency and quality.
- Understands the need for documentation and well-defined procedures.
- Able to work under pressure to tight project deadlines and can adapt to differing demands, prioritizing tasks where appropriate and ensuring complete 'follow through' on operational issues.
- Can carry out all responsibilities in a way that supports the practices values and promotes its equal opportunities and diversity principles.
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Key Areas of Focus
- Define 3E solution architecture for the project and Firm, including key reasoning and decisions made to develop that architecture. This also includes TRE’s ancillary products and services that supplement the 3E solution.
- Ensuring the 3E solution architecture meets business’ requirements, aligns to Dentons technical principles and supports GFT plans.
- Alignment of 3E solution across GFT teams; accomplished by working with peer lead roles.
- Understand approaches proposed by the Systems Implementer for 3E development, challenge any that deviate from core Dentons principles and identify any efficiency improvements in development approaches.
- Continual monitoring of tools and approaches to ensure alignment with Dentons standards and best practices.
- Evaluate new versions of 3E released by TRE and assess impact, benefit and cost of implementation in the GFT program (both globally and regionally), providing recommendations for adoption of new versions.
- Develop User Provisioning architecture and solution to streamline data feeds from up-stream systems of user data.
- Ongoing strategic direction to regional development teams to ensure we deliver solutions aligned with regional software solutions.
- Working with GFT Environments Lead ensure environments support timelines and requirements of deployment schedule and sequencing.
- Working with GFT Services and Delivery Leads, to establish, communicate and ensure the development supports technical and business outcomes.
- Effective and timely communication with vendors, GFT team and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure 3E solution being developed aligns with the chosen architecture for the Firm, including TRE ancillary products.
- Ensure 3E architecture adhered to during development and release to global and regions.
- Ensure adequate reviews and QA processes established to ensure architecture requirements are being met
- Ensure Systems Implementer adheres to Dentons standards and 3E solution architecture.
- Ensure documented standards are identified and maintained, including expectations from vendors.
- Ongoing evaluation of new TRE versions that affect the 3E solution.
- Advanced understanding and involvement in DevOps framework and alignment of Delivery team’s activities.
- Design of User Provision solution for 3E.
- Ensure agreed upon build and release process support the 3E architecture and delivery activities.
- Proactively liaise with Systems Implementer, TRE, Business Process leads and Business Solution Architect to resolve requirements queries.
- Actively manage architectural risks to delivery and downstream activities.
- Effective and timely status reports to Business, Technology and transformation team leadership.
About You
- Business international level of English – both written and oral;
- Highly collaborative and able to work in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered;
- Particularly strong written communication skills;
- Particularly strong organizational skills;
- Strong knowledge and experience in IT/Finance practices;
- Experience of multinational IT and Finance operations;
- Experience working as part of global business and/or technology transformation programs;
- Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Experience of working within a fast-paced agile / DevOps project and/or operational environment
- Ability to clarify complex problems and communicate these issues towards both DevOps and business teams;
- Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities with experience in balancing technical trade-offs;
- Be a team player, able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
- Drive out decisions and recommendations;
- Independent, pro-active way of working.
- Knowledge of development strategies, approaches and tools.
- Ability to drive a development project from start to finish whilst delivering on time.
- Strong technical team leadership and supplier management is essential
- Experience of legal finance and practice management systems (especially 3E) and supporting solutions and technologies (time & billing) will be highly desirable.
You will possess:
- Post-secondary education with a specialization in Information Technology.
- Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with legal platforms across a broad spectrum of technologies.
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Key Areas of Focus
- Alignment of 3E solution activities across GFT teams; accomplished by working with peer lead roles.
- Ongoing evaluation and improvement of service delivery services (e.g., release management, vendor workflow, testing and issue resolution).
- Continual monitoring of tools and approaches to ensure alignment with Dentons standards and best practices.
- Ongoing leadership to regional development teams to ensure we deliver solutions aligned with regional software solutions.
- Effective and timely communication with vendors, GFT team and internal stakeholders.
- Working with GFT Services Lead, establish, communicate and manage against priorities and required timelines whilst ensuring delivery supports technical and business outcomes.
- Provide leadership to 3E Delivery team, which is planned to include: Solution Architect, Delivery Analysts, Compliance Analyst and vendor who is providing core code delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure documented standards are identified and maintained, including expectations from vendors.
- Advanced understanding and involvement in DevOps framework and alignment of Delivery team’s activities.
- Identify and communicate agreed upon build and release process that will support the 3E delivery activities.
- Working with the Global Solution Architect, ensure environments support timelines and requirements of deployment schedule and sequencing.
- Ensure required workflows are established to support efficient testing and remediation activities.
- Plan and control 3E build, QA and functional test and defect resolution.
- Proactively liaise with delivery vendor, Business Process leads and Solution Architect to resolve requirements queries.
- Represent delivery in Program and Technical Design governance bodies.
- Actively manage delivery risks.
About You
- Business international level of English – both written and oral;
- Highly collaborative and able to work in a global environment, accommodating the different time zones. Only team players will be considered;
- Particularly strong written communication skills;
- Particularly strong organizational skills;
- Strong knowledge and experience in IT/Finance practices;
- Experience of multinational IT and Finance operations;
- Experience working as part of global business and/or technology transformation programs;
- Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Experience of working within a fast-paced agile / DevOps project and/or operational environment
- Ability to clarify complex problems and communicate these issues towards both DevOps and business teams;
- Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities with experience in balancing technical trade-offs;
- Be a team player, able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus;
- Drive out decisions and recommendations;
- Independent, pro-active way of working.
- Knowledge of development strategies, approaches and tools.
- Ability to drive a development project from start to finish whilst delivering on time.
- Strong technical team leadership and supplier management is essential
- Experience of legal finance and practice management systems (especially 3E) and supporting solutions and technologies (time & billing) will be highly desirable.
You will possess:
- Post-secondary education with a specialization in Information Technology.
- Minimum of 8 years progressive experience with legal platforms across a broad spectrum of technologies.
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