Solution Engineer
Finance, Banking & Legal · Banking & Investments · Financial Analysis · Business Analysis
In short
Volvo Financial Services is seeking a Solution Engineer for its Finance Platform area in Greensboro, NC. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to deliver financial system solutions, analyze requirements, and support the product lifecycle. The position requires experience in financial systems, strong communication skills, and a university degree in a related field.
Responsibilities
- Interact with digital product owners, solution engineers, DevSecOps engineers, scrum masters, and business stakeholders to identify needs and provide solutions.
- Lead delivery of solutions that best support business and accounting requirements.
- Proactively research advanced technology for best practices and cost-effective solutions.
- Provide functional business and accounting solution support.
- Manage product backlog, delivery, and support.
- Create product specifications in the form of user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Help lead the product discovery process, including requirements gathering, design, and scoping.
- Understand full solution capability and functionality to become an expert.
- Analyze and structure business and accounting requirements to propose solutions.
- Support the solution/system development process with best practices and necessary functionalities.
- Support release management, ensuring proper communication and full testing, including accounting-related validations.
- Validate functional and technical specifications and test cases, focusing on financial accuracy and audit readiness.
- Perform change management activities and prioritization of changes.
- Recommend metrics to measure solution performance, including financial accuracy and reconciliation efficiency.
- Assess and make configuration changes on solution/system.
- Identify, document, and resolve issues, incidents, and problems.
- Identify opportunities for solution/system improvement.
- Provide expertise in business capabilities, functional analysis, accounting workflows, process flows, and mapping with applications.
- Support project teams with the implementation of solutions, including accounting modules and financial reporting tools.
- Oversee managed services of solutions and applications globally.
- Facilitate and chair meetings and workshops on solutions/applications.
- Author presentations, spreadsheets, reports, and instructional material on solution functionalities.
- Participate in projects regarding systems development, acquisition, deployment, and rollout.
Requirements
- Documented experience and implementation track record in financial systems, including accounting modules.
- Experience in supporting a product lifecycle with accounting or finance components.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong structuring and organizing skills.
- Strong technical background working with integrations / support.
- Ability to present business and technical issues, ideas, and recommendations in verbal, written, and presentation formats using storytelling and logical arguments.
- Proficiency in English which enables you to take part in international projects.
- A university degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Business Analysis, or similar.
- Ability to work in multi-cultural and diverse environments, on-site or remotely, together with communication experience at all levels of the organization.
- Availability to travel internationally.
Desired Qualifications
- Preferred experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
- Financial Services industry experience favorable, especially in accounting operations or financial control.
- Experience working in an agile set-up, using DevOps or similar.
- The skills to identify risks and impacts regarding the functional solution from a business analysis perspective to propose changes in business processes, IT implementations, and/or operations when necessary.
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off.
- Competitive matching retirement savings plans.
- Working environment where your safety, health and wellbeing come first.
- Focus on professional and personal development through Volvo Group University.
- Programs that make today’s challenging reality of combining work and personal life easier.
- Solid and competitive package of compensation and benefits.
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