Senior Implementation Consultant

About the Company

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing! At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

About the Role

The Senior Implementation Consultant is responsible for implementing the company's accounting software products with new and/or existing mid-market and enterprise clients. Using their extensive knowledge of the BlackLine application, they are able to advise customers on best practices and work with customers through complex requirements to configure the suite of products to perform as needed. This role is also responsible for consulting with the client regarding best practices and client business needs in order to best configure the software and provide exceptional customer service.

Responsibilities

• Manages a diverse portfolio and delivers mid-market to large-scale implementation projects, spanning multiple sectors.
• Drives and manages all implementation milestones to completion within budget, scope, schedule, and customer satisfaction.
• Creates and maintains thorough documentation throughout the implementation to include billable hours, Salesforce notes/documentation, expense management, etc.
• Utilizes business acumen, Accounting/Finance Industry knowledge, and product knowledge to serve as a trusted advisor and become an application expert to address client use cases and business challenges.
• Builds strong and positive relationships with client contacts, including executive sponsors and management for the duration of the project and post-delivery transition.
• Drives analysis and provides client recommendations at both strategic and operational levels, based on project objectives.
• Elicits, documents, interprets and translates client business requirements or high-level requirements to be used for application configuration and testing solutions during implementations.
• Responds to client communications and proactively researches, resolves issues, and provides best practices with a high sense of urgency and customer service.
• Manages project deliverables from beginning to end and defines and confirms scope, ensuring that all specifications are clearly defined to satisfy expectations.
• Establishes a strategy of continuous risk management that enables proactive decisions and actions throughout the project life cycle including budgetary, timeline and performance considerations.
• Leads, mentors, trains and coaches less tenured implementation consultants to complete project outputs.
• Performs other tasks and responsibilities as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in Consulting Services, Client Services and/or Professional Services environment.
• Two years of experience with BlackLine Products.

Required Skills

• Proven experience to balance multiple projects at any given time and stay on top of all details, with enterprise level customers.
• Demonstrated experience communicating and presenting to a diverse set of people across groups and organizational levels.
• Expertise with installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and support of software application.
• Experience in a high-revenue producing environment (eg billing of time and materials).
• Demonstrated and proven experience documenting Business Requirements for software development and technical specifications.
• Previous Business Analysis experience.
• Knowledge/experience in Accounting, Audits, Financial Services, Software Technology, SaaS industry and/or related experience.
• Knowledge of MS Office, MS Project, Salesforce/CRM, Accounting Software.
• Knowledge of accounting terminology and processes (e.g. month-end close process).
• Excellent communication skills, strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Effective negotiation/conflict resolution skills.
• Effective problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Strong client relationship skills.
• Ability to deliver world-class service and high-impact results.
• Ability to foster a sense of inclusiveness.
• Ability to manage self and others under pressure and time-sensitive deadlines.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous or difficult situations or personalities.
• Ability to facilitate and harness cross-team collaboration working with teams in-person and virtually.

Preferred Skills

• Three plus years of experience in the audit/accounting industry preferred.
• Domain experience with Invoice to Cash, Collections Management, e-Invoicing, and Payments.
• Experience with large scale ERP systems including SAP and Oracle preferred.
• Accounting degree/CPA preferred.
• PMP Certification.
• Background in Sales and Customer Service.

Equal Opportunity Statement

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws. BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.