Financials ERP Practice Lead

Job Title: Financials ERP Practice Lead
Job Type: Full Time/Salary - must be eligible to work in the United States and not require sponsorship
Job Start Date: Immediately
Compensation: $160k - $210k plus bonus & benefits

Overview:
Meridian Partners, LLC is a minority-owned and operated business. Since 2002, Meridian has helped organizations maximize value from their ERP investments, ensuring that enterprise software, infrastructure, and functionality are optimized to meet each organization or agency’s strategic goals. Meridian serves federal, state, and local governments, K-12, and commercial organizations.

Job Overview:
We are a fast-growing ERP practice with both SAP and WD clients and an exciting opportunity for an ERP Financials Practice Lead. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and are looking to make an impact, this position is perfect. We are looking for someone who has a strong background in ERP implementations, consulting, and can oversea project teams.  The successful candidate for this position must possess public sector knowledge, an understanding of public sector accounting and finance concepts, integration points with major financial systems, and experience optimizing and automating business processes. The ability to effectively interact with client C-Suite executives and oversee the Project Management staff to keep projects delivered on schedule and with the highest level of quality and customer satisfaction. We expect this position to initially be remote, with potential for future travel within the US.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery and management of client projects, contributing to solutions as needed to establish strong trust-based relationships and drive collective client and team success
• Support business development/sales efforts, craft and develop solution approaches and proposals, and successfully engage with clients
• Diagnose complex technical and business problems and work to uncover unknown and unmet client needs
• Network and develop relationships with new clients and partners
• Mentor and serve as a role model to junior colleagues by providing career development goals, meeting regularly, writing, and delivering quarterly reviews, advocating for their career advancement, and serving as an example of career roles and levels they can aspire to
• Actively represent our culture by leading and participating in efforts around continuous learning, personal and professional development, and team building
• Work collaboratively with members of the management and executive teams

Requirements:

• 3+ years implementation experience with SAP or Workday
• 10+ years managing ERP implementations across multiple industries including the implementation of Public Sector ERP financial solutions
• Demonstrated experience leading and growing an ERP/Business Systems practice (ie company division/group/practice)
• Experience in requirements definition & gathering (blueprinting), system setup, integration testing, documentation, end-user training, and on-going support
• Experience with waterfall and/or agile ERP implementation methodologies
• Able and willing to travel 30 - 40%
• Degree in information systems, business, or accounting

Highly Desirable:

• SAP or Workday or PMP Certifications
• Implementation experience with other ERP software solutions (Oracle, JDE, PeopleSoft)