Toronto Opportunities

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ERP Finance Consultant

As part of the ERP team, you will be responsible for leading design activities around finance and accounting processes, following industry, product, and compliance best-practices. Your focus on driving business benefits and value coupled with your expertise in the Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta) application will allow you to recommend process and system designs that optimally leverage our customer’s investment in achieving their business goals. With your full-life-cycle implementation experience you will produce quality results from the inception phase, through design, implementation, rollout and support. Your activities will include leading requirements workshops, producing design deliverables, test plans, and training materials. Your focus on customer success will ensure an approach that includes successful training and knowledge transfer, and ultimately, long-term customer self-sufficiency and satisfaction. You may also participate in the sales cycle, specifically assisting in the preparation of demos and writing proposals.

Required qualifications include:

  • Knowledge of Accounting and/or Finance Processes;
  • Consulting experience preferably with the “Big Five” experience;
  • A minimum 3 years experience with full life-cycle implementation of ERP solutions such as SAP, Dynamics AX (Axapta), JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Dynamics NAV (Navision);
  • Proven experience and strong working knowledge with a Financial suite of applications;
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in ERP implementation principles, practices and methodologies;
  • Demonstrated capabilities in evaluating business process and recommending improvements;
  • Demonstrated strong communication skills (written and verbal) including establishing and maintaining positive client and peer relationships;
  • Demonstrated experience in working with multiple stakeholders, including the c-level or executive.

As our ideal candidate, you have

  • Successfully achieved a professional accounting designation (e.g., CMA, CGA, CA);
  • Proven financial process design, configuration expertise coupled with a thorough understanding of GAAP and SOX process compliance procedures;
  • Demonstrated capabilities in evaluating new techniques and utilizing the key elements;
  • Established confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies;
  • The ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Please ensure "ERP Finance Consultant - Toronto" is in the subject heading of your email.

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New Grad - Consultant, Business Applications

The successful candidate will be a self motivated individual, who can work under dynamic conditions and within deadlines. Working in a fast-paced, project-based environment, Ideaca Project Teams engage with our customers to:

  • Understand their strategic objectives and business requirements
  • Design solutions based on best-of-breed business applications
  • Implement the solutions
  • Manage the solution end-to-end from inception to end-user training and support

Your responsibilities as a Consultant will include:

  • Applying your understanding of software implementation processes to obtain and manage business and system requirements
  • Using your knowledge and experience of business process and software, bring value to our customers by designing and implementing solutions that meet their needs
  • Following Ideaca’s methodi - our software implementation best practices - to achieve results for our customers
  • Working closely with key customer personnel throughout the project lifecycle
  • Building and maintaining positive customer and peer relationships
  • Travel (domestic and international), when required
  • Thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

If you want the opportunity to jump-start your career as a business and technology consultant in a fast-growing firm with a great working environment, email your resume, cover letter, and transcript to:

Also, please indicate in your cover letter the cities where you would be open to being hired.

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New Grad - Consultant, Application Development

The successful candidate will be a self motivated individual, who can work under dynamic conditions and within deadlines. Working in a fast-paced, project-based environment, Ideaca Project Teams engage with our customers to:

  • Understand their strategic objectives and business requirements
  • Design solutions based on best-of-breed business applications
  • Develop the solutions
  • Manage the solution end-to-end from inception to end-user training and support

Your responsibilities as a Consultant will include:

  • Applying your understanding of software development processes to obtain and manage business and system requirements
  • Using your knowledge and experience in software development and programming, bring value to our customers by designing and developing solutions that meet their needs
  • Following Ideaca’s methodi - our software implementation best practices - to achieve results for our customers
  • Working closely with key customer personnel throughout the project lifecycle
  • Building and maintaining positive customer and peer relationships
  • Travel (domestic and international), when required
  • Thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

If you want the opportunity to jump-start your career as a business and technology consultant in a fast-growing firm with a great working environment, email your resume, cover letter, and transcript to:

Also, please indicate in your cover letter the cities where you would be open to being hired.

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Business Analyst, Portals and Collaboration Consultant

As an Ideaca consultant you will be responsible for defining, documenting and implementing processes within the Microsoft suite of products including Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint 2003, and Window SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0. This will include installation and configuration of SharePoint Portal and SharePoint Services. Knowledge of available web parts, functionality in MOSS 2007 and development of custom web parts would be an asset. Additionally, you will conduct acceptance testing and train customer resources to successfully administer and maintain implemented software. You will also participate in the sales cycle, specifically assisting in the preparation and execution of demos and writing proposals.

Required qualifications include:

  • Successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business, Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Demonstrate knowledge and experience in implementation principles, practices and methodologies
  • Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment

As our ideal candidate you have:

  • Have 1 to 3 years experience preferably with Microsoft tools including Office suite, and SPS/WSS
  • Demonstrate capabilities in evaluating business process and recommending improvements
  • Demonstrate capabilities in evaluating new technologies and utilizing the appropriate elements to achieve client results
  • Understand how to build and maintain positive client and peer relationships
  • Establish confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies
  • Demonstrate strong communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Are prepared for some domestic and international travel as required

Please ensure "Business Analyst, Portals and Collaboration Consultant - Toronto" is in the subject heading of your email.

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Business Intelligence Consultant

As an Ideaca Business Intelligence Consultant, you will be responsible for participating at all phases of the project life cycle including: analyzing, designing, modeling, testing and deploying suitable and appropriate solutions.

Required qualifications include:

Business Intelligence skills (Primary focus)

  • Have experience with Microsoft Reporting Services and/or Microsoft Analysis Services
  • Defining data standards and data models for warehouse architectures
  • Business analytics focusing on the effective use of data and information to drive positive business actions. This area includes both business and technical topics, including concepts of performance management, definition and delivery of business metrics, data visualization, and deployment and use of technology solutions such as OLAP, dashboards, scorecards and analytic applications
  • Data analysis concentrating on the understanding of business requirements with respect to data and information
  • Data design focusing on translating business information into data structures with core skills to include information needs analysis, specification of business metrics, and data modeling
  • Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, architectures, and processes
  • Data integration to deliver business intelligence solutions. Integration includes all of the activities necessary to acquire data from sources, and to transform and cleanse the data. Data integration includes concepts and skills for source data analysis and source qualification, data profiling, source/target mapping, data cleansing and transformation, and ETL development
  • Managing the infrastructure and ensuring continuous operation of data warehousing and business intelligence solutions

Database skills (Secondary focus)

  • In-depth knowledge in the administration of Oracle and SQL Server databases including installation, configuration and support
  • Experience in applying database methodologies and best-practices in a client environment
  • Experience in the development of SQL and PL/SQL code objects including stored procedures, functions, triggers and views
  • Planning, design, and implementation of database related architecture and services
  • Performing data migrations including testing fixes and upgrades
  • Experience with space planning
  • Database backup and recovery
  • Performance tuning and problem diagnosis and resolution; working with Application developers
  • Strong understanding of application development processes
  • Database security administration
  • Release management and documentation

As our ideal candidate you have:

  • Experience with database configuration and administration of ERP packages (including but not limited to SAP, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Baan, MS/Navision Attain, MS/Navision Axapta)
  • Successful completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Business Computer Science or a related discipline
  • Understand how to build and maintain positive client and peer relationships
  • Experience working on ASP.NET enterprise applications, working with ADO.NET against a SQL server or Oracle databases
  • Demonstrate capabilities in evaluating new techniques and utilizing the appropriate elements
  • Establish confidence in your ability to manage tasks, issues, their priorities and interdependencies
  • Will be prepared for some domestic and international travel as required

Please ensure "BI Consultant Position - Toronto" is in the subject heading of your email.

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