Deltek Costpoint 8.0 -Functional Consultant

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<li>Experience with Cognos is required</li>
<li>Experience with Costpoint Contracts and Subcontract modules is highly desired</li>
<li>Business Analytical skills to translate functional requirements into application solutions is a must</li>
<li>Prepare and maintain documentation, including requirements, specifications, process flows and procedures and provide expertise and assistance to ensure all process are designed to meet DCAA, audit and security practices</li>
<li>Ensure change control procedures and processes are followed in accordance with policies</li>
<li>Establish/Setup Project Codes</li>
<li>Work with Database and System Administrators along with other technical SMEs to monitor system performance and processing, troubleshoot performance issues, investigate critical system errors, capture traces, and analyze server logs</li>
<li>Lead the evaluation, escalation and resolution of defects with the Costpoint and T&amp;E vendor (Deltek)</li>
<li>Evaluate scenarios, and work with user community to devise and execute various test plans including unit, system, interface and integration with other business systems (EDI, Cargowise, SmartView, Oracle _____)</li>
<li>Configure and maintain Costpoint System Admin Module</li>
<li>Perform initial and regular interval health checks.</li>
<li>Act as functional SME for all Costpoint modules, such as: accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, project setup, cost revenue, billing, employee, labor, payroll, compensation, personnel, cost pools, fixed assets, procurement, etc.</li>
<li>Maintain a working knowledge of the front-end application screens, functions and job processing and how these ties to the database tables and other applications, functions and processes.</li>
<li>Maintain underlying Costpoint and Deltek T&amp;E databases and concepts</li>
<li>Develop training material and deliver training in any of the major Costpoint modules. Maintain training documentation/user guides applicable.</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul>
<li>5-8 years of hands on experience in Costpoint support and administration required</li>
<li>2+ years of experience with Costpoint Extensibility</li>
<li>2+ years of experience with Data Migration</li>
<li>Ability to research, determine relevance, organize and formulate recommendations involving complex financial information and systems pertaining to Costpoint</li>
<li>Strong Excel skills a must as well as proficiency with MS Office</li>
<li>Proven partnering with multiple internal departments to include strong background in supporting cross-functional teams</li>
<li>Ability to contribute to a professional work environment by demonstrating integrity, promoting teamwork, and fostering positive communications</li>
<li>Ability to work in a deadline-oriented environment is essential</li>
<li>Ability to adapt to changing work efforts, manage the impact of shifting priorities, and resolve technical/functional emergencies as they occur</li>
<li>Experience with all aspects of technical support for Costpoint and Deltek Time &amp; Expense (TE) systems. This includes system upgrades, planning, design, audits as well as troubleshooting and resolving technical issues</li>
<li>Understanding of the underlying Costpoint and Deltek TE databases and concepts</li>
<li>Strong understanding of the underlying infrastructure setup (i.e. web servers, app servers, job servers, database servers) and how it relates to the Database and Application</li>
<li>Working knowledge of front-end applications screens, functions and job processing and how these ties to the database tables and other applications, functions and processes</li>
<li>Strong written skills required to include design specs, test scripts (unit and functional), and requirements documents</li>
<li>Understanding of cloud and SaaS platform-based company operations, and infrastructure</li>
<li>Ability to interface with personnel at all levels directly or virtually</li>
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