Management / Strategy Consultant at Owens and Xley

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in process improvement and apply this to the development and execution of process improvement plans
• Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable
• Conduct current position assessments to understand business processes and system inefficiencies
• Develop wire frames, workflows, use case diagrams, flowcharts, and other analysis-type documentation.
• Complete and document any process mapping and process improvement requirements and documentations accordingly.
• Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Meet with project team regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines
• Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing client relationships
• Perform industry research to clarify, define, or satisfy technology or business process issues
• Keep an updated schedule and status of all projects
• Recommend and provide insight into the best techniques in delivering solutions
• Facilitate successful delivery of project requirements to meet client specification.
• Manage project information and data for decision making
• Prepare and communicate project results at the end of every project
• Prepare business reports, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists etc.
• Lead and facilitate project meetings and presentations for diverse audiences
• Provide leadership to team members and peers by collaborating with others; articulating ideas and viewpoints to senior management, peers, and others.
• Identify and initiate projects, manage resources,driving the resolution of issues,and hold self and team accountable for results
• Create and maintain project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time and resources, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions and resolving conflicts
• Manage changes to requirements through effective use of change control processes and tools
• Create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.
• Bring inconsistencies and problems to the attention of management
• Outline and administer requisite training(internal and external)when needed
• Ensure smooth transition from Project to Support with necessary documentation
• Participate in the problem resolution
• Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible new ideas to management
• Perform other tasks to support the organization.