CURRENT OPENINGS AT SATORI GROUP

Current openings at Satori Group below:

EPM/BI Team Lead – Sydney Only

Satori Group are looking for an experienced consulting and finance/accounting professional to manage, lead and motivate a team who supports solutions that assist our customers in their financial and departmental improvements within their budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidations, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting and analysis.

The Team Leader of the BI team (7 currently), has primary responsibility for managing the day-to-day operations of the BI team, as well as the delivery of some projects. Therefore, it is essential the Team Leader can manage a team, deliver a project when needed and coordinate all BI projects. This is an exciting role managing a great group of people.

He/she will be responsible for all strategic, operational, people resource, and technical resource responsibilities associated with the following:

• Data specification from source systems
• Data preparation (sourcing, acquisition, integration)
• Understanding customer requirements and translating into a solution
• Reporting, analytics, data exploration
• Information delivery (portals, mobile)
• BI competency centre of excellence
• BI Consultant support and management
• Mentoring and energizing the team to the best of their abilities
• Project delivery, customer engagement and customer management

Overall:

• Lead business intelligence initiatives, which includes road mapping, design, development, implementation, support and continuous improvement of business intelligence reporting systems and prediction (budgeting, decision analysis) tools.
• Assist our customers to transform data into information and information into insights that can help our customers understand past performance, predict the future, and make data driven decisions.
• Focus on continuous learning in the area of Business Intelligence, seeking improved approaches to increase efficiency, accuracy, timeliness and usefulness of information and reporting processes.
• Look to develop common practices and approaches with internal team members, which leads to a more uniform approach to the end users.
• Be knowledgeable of and able to report on actual financial and business results and estimates (i.e. Budget, Forecast, etc.) Therefore, Accounting or Systems accounting background is essential.
• Champion and work to make sure key needed data is captured, normalized, correct and able to be reported on in an efficient and effective manner.
• Stay connected to the organization to understand changing dynamics of the business, and can translate that into Business Intelligence needs.
• Lead, energize and drive the team of Consultants.
• Convey problems, solutions, updates and project status to peers, and management.
• Monitor emerging BI technologies and provide recommendations to senior management with new and innovative ways of BI implementation that helps business community.

Essential:

• A degree in accounting or finance related.

Industry/domain skills:

• Expertise in Business Intelligence full systems and software development life cycle, especially with finance or accounting degree

Technical skills:

1. SQL Skills such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and Teradata – solid understanding of how to request data in accordance with the solution requirements;
2. Accounting knowledge, (PnL, BS, CF). Chart of accounts within database applications;
3. Outstanding skills and experience within MS Excel;
4. VM Server knowledge;
5. AD security, as well as various BI tools like IBM Cognos, Microsoft SSRS, SAP Business Objects, Anaplan, TM1, Hyperion or Qlikview;
6. Knowledge of programming languages and experience in software development.
7. Expertise in data modelling;
8. Experience in multidimensional data modelling;
9. Experience in and understanding of a wide variety of analytical processes (sales, payroll modelling, expenditure, capitalization, KPI Analysis etc.);
10. Experience with agile software development, would be advantageous; and

General business skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Experience managing complex BI projects and teams.
• Proven ability to complete projects and achieve results.
• Leadership skills within a project team

Graduate Consultant – Sydney Only
When a Graduate joins Satori, they are joining an organisation that offers the springboard to a solid career in IT. Satori’s graduate program is unique in the industry, as we embrace our Graduates on a pathway of development, learning and most importantly endless ‘opportunities’ for the right individual.

This is a great opportunity to learn the full life cycle and gain the knowledge and experience you will need in your future. The role starts from caring for customers and helping them solve problems. Thereafter you progress to learn a specific technology / solution suite and the various components with that technology. You will get involved in implementing these solutions and learning the entire implementation life cycle.

With this in mind, you will be exposed to a number of products and skills that will be needed such as:
• Operating systems and networking
• Databases and scripting like MS SQL Server/SQL
• Programming – VBA, Python
• Application such as ACL, Envisage
• Excel and Web reporting solutions like Dundas
• Design and system documentation
• Providing presentation and training

This is not a pure programming role, more that of a business consulting role in that you will engage with customers from early on in your career, thus being exposed to different companies and industries developing a broad skill level. The graduate role will support multiple customer projects.

Essential Skills and Experience:
• SQL Knowledge/Exposure/Experience*
• Scripting/Programming Knowledge (VBA, C#, Python.)
• Concepts of database design
• Like solving problems and strong mathematical and analytical skills
• Strong MS Excel
• Relevant degree in Computer Science, Bachelor of Commerce, Information Systems, Engineering, Accounting/Finance

Only apply if you can outline your experience in the above, ie: SQL, Scripting.