Application Support Specialist

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We strongly believe every colleague brings unique value to our whole. We collaborate openly and effectively to deliver results and celebrate our shared success, thrive on innovation and embrace a growth mindset to aim higher every day.

If youre a forward-thinker looking for the great next step in your career within an innovative and collaborative environment, Board is the right workplace for you!

We are currently looking for an Application Support Specialist to join a rapidly growing Application Support team. In this role, you will be accountable for providing assistance to a range of Management Information, Financial Reporting, Forecasting and Planning applications developed for some of Boards key accounts.

This position is based in our Mumbai office reporting into the Team Leader of Application Support.

The Application Support team plays a pivotal role in Boards Customer Success strategy by providing industry leading post-implementation support. Through regular service review meetings, our Application Support Specialists are expected to maintain a strong grasp of our customers ever-changing business and functional requirements whilst helping them understand how Board can be used to achieve their goals.

Main duties:

• Provide qualified functional and technical assistance for existing customer Board planning and reporting solutions
• Provide application support for Boards ready-built Financial Consolidation applications
• Guide extensive knowledge transfer processes between delivery and maintenance teams
• Host regular service review meetings with your customers to ensure high levels of Customer satisfaction whilst providing insights to new features and functionality introduced in the Board platform
• Be able to articulate, in deep technical detail how Board functionality can be used to meet Customer requirements and find a solution to business problems
• Identify areas for improvement in existing applications
• Remain commercially focused by identifying Board footprint expansion opportunities within the existing Customer base
• Work closely with the Board Product team by relaying Customer and market feedback

What we look for:

• Educational background in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Mathematics, Finance or any relevant technical field
• Previous experience working in EPM/CPM software support, delivery or consulting role
• Good understanding of financial processes (Financial Consolidation and Lease Reporting for example) is beneficial
• Exposure to multi-dimensional or OLAP technology preferred
• Knowledge of SQL advantageous
• Great de-escalation aptitude and capacity to work in very tight time frames
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and reverse engineering capacity
• Know-how to grasp elaborate business requirements and translate those into solutions within the Board platform
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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