Senior Functional Consultant

Senior Functional Consultant The Company

Kantata gives professional services organizations the clarity, control, and confidence they need to optimize resource planning, project management, and financial management – all to improve business outcomes for both the professional services firms we serve and their clients. Our purpose-built professional services automation software empowers over 2,500 professional services organizations in more than 100 countries to deliver radically better business outcomes.

Kantata provides AI-powered insights and next best action recommendations our clients need to win more business and optimize project delivery to exceed their clients’ expectations. Kantata is well-capitalized, hiring, and growing our loyal and diversified customer base faster than we ever have. Most importantly, we have a clear vision of where we’re going and how to get there. (Hint: It involves you.)

Did we mention that Kantata is also an awesome place to work? You’ll have the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with a team that loves what they do. A talented team, great perks, and an amazing culture = an employee-rated Best Place to Work!

As a Senior Functional Consultant, you will drive the strategy of the Client solution, relative processes, configurations, and add ons to provide a Remarkable Client Experience. This includes providing tailored best practices and approaches to complex business use cases and needs, developing a configuration and business process strategy, and managing the Kantata implementation process.

• Lead the solution strategy for the core Kantata solution liaising where needed with other delivery specialists to ensure a coherent, consistent and effective solution and implementation program.
• Understand Kantata’s technology, product offerings, service offerings, and industries served. Collaborate with the project team and client to understand all technical aspects and ensure the quality of deliverables.
• Identify, assess and solve complex business problems. Understand our clients’ business requirements and objectives while ensuring alignment with Kantata’s solution and best practices to drive desired business results.
• Drive deployment activities such as requirements gathering, functional design, system testing, user acceptance testing, issue troubleshooting and resolution, change management, and training.
• Perform the full configuration of Kantata required for the deployment of the solution including custom reports, integrations, and data migrations as needed.
• Consult on both industry and Kantata best practices related to our clients.
• Effectively manage own tasks, task timelines and estimated remaining effort for services projects.
• Leverage Kantata’s implementation methodology and best practices to drive an efficient and successful Client implementation.
• Achieve high client success within the context of the project scope.

• Contribute to the consultant tool set by identifying trends and facilitating updates to current tools and/or new tool development including (but not limited to) internal and external documentation as well as process improvements.

• Seek opportunities to identify and foster improvements to organizational methodology, processes and practices
• Participate in the ongoing improvement of the Kantata product suite and the services implementation methodology. Build and share repeatable processes and quality deliverables that may be leveraged across multiple projects to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

• Foster collaboration and teamwork through sharing experiences, information, perspectives, skills, and expertise.