About the Role:
Are you passionate about technology and business? Do you thrive on staying ahead of the curve with the latest functionalities and enhancements? If so, we want you to join our dynamic Business Applications team at ANS as a Configuration Consultant.
Key Responsibilities:
- Customer Needs Analysis: Leverage your knowledge to identify customer needs and match them with the right technical solutions to maximize value.
- Solution Delivery: Utilize your expertise in Dynamics & Power Platform to analyze, design, build, test, document, and deliver the right solutions at the right time.
- Collaboration: Work closely with Solution Architects, Project Managers, Customers, and other stakeholders to guide and advise on unlocking the benefits of technology.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build trust and confidence through effective interactions with stakeholders.
- User Stories & Acceptance Criteria: Write and validate user stories, analyze acceptance criteria, and facilitate the design, build, test, deploy, and documentation of solutions.
- Functional Awareness: Demonstrate knowledge of D365 CE first-party apps and Power Platform capabilities, including Power Automate Flows, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Apps.
- Facilitation: Lead stakeholder sessions for requirements gathering, demonstrations, training, and other interactions.
- Continuous Learning: Stay updated on developments and licensing conditions of D365 and Power Platform.
- Professional Challenge: Challenge stakeholders on needs, processes, and design to ensure solutions meet engagement goals and constraints.
- Governance: Assist in project governance by adhering to scope, best practices, and contractual obligations.
- Opportunity Identification: Identify and communicate opportunities and scope changes throughout the delivery process.
Skills and Experience Required:
- D365 Expertise: Deep understanding of deploying and configuring at least two of the following: D365 for Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, Field Service.
- Configuration Experience: Proven experience in configuring D365 solutions to meet requirements, budget, and time constraints while maintaining high quality.
- Business Process Mapping: Experience in mapping business processes and requirements against native D365 capabilities and identifying product gaps.
- Power Automate Skills: Demonstrable skills in configuring basic Power Automate Flows.
- Quality Assurance: Perform quality assurance by verifying documented functional requirements against delivered solutions through testing and defect resolution.
- Facilitation Skills: Confident in facilitating business mapping, requirement gathering, training, and product/solution demonstrations.
- Project Methodologies: Understanding of Agile and Waterfall project methodologies and organizational change management concepts.
- Tool Familiarity: Familiarity with Azure DevOps (ADO) or other requirement/backlog management tools and general ALM principles.
Why work for ANS?
At ANS, we’ve created a place where everyone can be themselves, and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness, ambition, honesty, and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold, courageous, and innovative – and we do it like no other. We invest in our people. In training, development, health and more – we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.
We’re proud of the inclusive, fun, dynamic environment we’ve created. It’s a safe space that works for all. You don’t have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. Find out more at LinkedIn pages.
What’s in it for you?
With fantastic benefits, an inclusive culture, and a cool office space, we’re your kind of workplace.
Company benefits
- As standard: 25 days’ holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days
- A little extra: we’ll give you your birthday off, and an extra celebration day for whatever you want! Tying the knot? You get 5 days’ additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh, and 5 volunteer days!
- Private health insurance
- Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
- Flexible working and work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
- Maternity: 16 weeks’ full pay, Paternity: 3 weeks’ full pay, Adoption: 16 weeks’ full pay
- Company social events – get ready for a jam-packed calendar
- Electric car scheme
- 12 days of personal growth development time
ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.
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What We Do
We are ANS. We’re a strong team of straight-talking tech and business experts. Our mission is to make digital transformation accessible to all.
We make enterprise-grade technology, knowledge and processes accessible and affordable for all companies, large or small, no matter the size of their budget. We hack the tech adoption curve, bringing technology usually reserved for large corporates first, to small and medium organisations too. We’re on a mission to help companies Think Bigger.
We’re trusted by our customers because we help them achieve their goals. Be it a digital transformation project for a 2000-person government body or helping a 10-person labels maker take their business online.
Our people are the lifeblood of our business. They dream up solutions that have never been delivered before. They dare to tackle problems no one else can. Every day they wake up and challenge the status quo. It’s no wonder we’ve been hailed the mavericks of the tech industry.