Akona

Position Responsibilities:

• Ability to manage complex projects and client accounts by:
  • Gathering requirements and conceptualizing solutions to meet business problems
  • Identifying and mitigating project risk
  • Identifying stakeholder goals and critical paths in decision making
  • Creating and driving project schedules while tracking and ensuring alignment with budgetary constraints
  • Identifying, driving, and tracking issues effectively
  • Interfacing with IT to deliver solutions to business problems
• Effectively communicate across client stakeholders, dependent groups, project team members, and senior management
• Assume accountability for project success
• Manage the client relationship
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management
  

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Over 7 years of client-facing, project/program management experience with a particular focus on business process transformation and re-engineering
• Broad and deep industry knowledge across line of business applications and processes including, but not limited to: human resources, finance, procurement, and telco
• Excellent ability to clearly and persuasively communicate in technical and non-technical subjects and build consensus with diverse audiences.
• Knowledge of creative, software development life cycle and/or development methodologies (including: Agile, SCRUM, RUP, MSF, XP, Six Sigma, etc.).
• Bachelor’s level education or equivalent experience required
• General computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio) and project management tools (i.e. MS Project)
• Ability to provide training and demonstrations
• Ability to travel to local client sites as needed

Akona offers a salary commensurate with experience, an enjoyable and fun work environment, an extensive benefits package, 3 weeks of flex-time/vacation, and paid holidays.

To apply, submit your resume and cover letter to careers@akonaconsulting.com.

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Position Responsibilities:

• Lead role in identifying, managing and configuring initiatives designed to support SAPs Payroll, Time, Benefits, Organization Management, and Personnel Administration modules
• Documentation of requirements and functional specifications
• Ensure a high quality bar through Unit and regression testing
• Coordination of initiatives through the release cycle
• Ability to develop strong collaborative relationships with the Business and SAP teams to deliver and communicate reliable, supportable business solutions.
  • Identify stakeholder goals and critical paths in decision making
  • Escalate and resolve issues effectively
    

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years experience with SAP HR with an emphasis on Time and Payroll (desired/required).
• Experience with the following a plus:
  • Canadian payroll processing
  • BSITAXFACTORY bolt-on
  • Production Support
• Excellent ability to clearly and persuasively communicate SAP functional and technical requirements with diverse audiences, as well as the ability to build consensus.
• Bachelor’s level education or equivalent experience.
• General computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Ability to provide training and demonstrations on-site and remotely.
• Ability to travel to local client sites as needed.

Akona offers a salary commensurate with experience, an enjoyable and fun work environment, an extensive benefits package, 3 weeks of flex-time/vacation, and paid holidays.

To apply, submit your resume and cover letter to careers@akonaconsulting.com.

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Position Responsibilities:

• Interpret client business needs, and develop on target, on strategy, effective interactive design solutions to meet those business needs in conjunction with copywriter, creative director and or developer
• Play a leading and strategic role in developing/shaping the growing interactive discipline
• Assure the highest level of accuracy and quality in every deliverable
• Work with a wide range of media (based on known end-customer insights), including (but not limited to: websites, email campaigns, product demos, software user interface and film/video)
• Interpret and design to client brand standards and trademark requirements
  

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• A website that showcases professional online and or interactive projects
• 5+ years experience with web and interactive media
• Strong typography/design skills
• Solid Flash OOP Action Scripting
• Advanced HTML, CSS hand coding ability
• Advanced Illustrator/Photoshop/Dreamweaver skills
• Good understanding of web technologies
• CMS experience
• Video compression expertise
• Audio file editing experience
• Knowledge of cross platform browser compatibility/quirks
• After Effects integration in Flash
• Mac AND PC savvy
• Web site design experience (UI/build-out)
• Thorough understanding of web limitations
• 4-year design degree

Akona offers a salary commensurate with experience, an enjoyable and fun work environment, an extensive benefits package, 3 weeks of flex-time/vacation, and paid holidays.

To apply, submit your resume and cover letter to careers@akonaconsulting.com.

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Position Responsibilities:

• Ability to manage multiple complex projects and client accounts
• Accurately review requirements and functional or implementation specifications
• Manage project risk including risk management planning
• Identify stakeholder goals and critical paths in decision making
• Maintain project schedules, requirements, budget, and status
• Escalate and resolve issues effectively
• Manage communication with internal team members, with the client, and client stakeholders
• Ensure project success
• Manage the client relationship
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendation report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful elements of the project
  

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Over 7 years of complex, client facing project or program management experience, to include managing Internet, software development, consulting, or creative projects
• Broad and deep industry experience
• Excellent ability to clearly and persuasively communicate in technical and non-technical subjects and build consensus with diverse audiences.
• Knowledge of creative, software development life cycle and/or development methodologies (including: Agile, SCRUM, RUP, MSF, XP, Six Sigma, etc.).
• One or more applicable certifications including: PMI/PMP/PgMP, CAPM, Scrum
• Bachelor’s level education or equivalent
• Must posess general computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and project management tools (i.e. MS Project, Rational Portfolio Manager)
• Ability to provide training and demonstrations on-site and remotely
• Ability to travel to local client sites as needed

Akona offers a salary commensurate with experience, an enjoyable and fun work environment, an extensive benefits package, 3 weeks of flex-time/vacation, and paid holidays.

To apply, submit your resume and cover letter to careers@akonaconsulting.com.

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Role
We’re looking for a versatile, creative, senior writer to be an important contributor to our dynamic Creative Services team. The ideal candidate is a strong conceptual thinker who has exceptional writing skills with experience segmenting audiences and communicating to them with clear copy that achieves desired results.

As a Senior Writer at Akona you will:

• Create effective content that delivers results for our clients — including, but not limited to, case studies, white papers, sales tools, Web site content, marketing campaign materials, product demos, presentations, and film/video
• Assure the highest level of accuracy and quality in each deliverable

Show us you can:

• Develop content based on our client’s business objectives or end-user needs
• Create new content, including copy for technical documentation, lead generation, thought leadership, marketing or other business needs
• Generate new ideas for content presentation and delivery, or content reuse
• Segment audiences and deliver crisp copy that speaks to them

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 8-10 years experience writing marketing content for technology companies
• Ability to ask key questions to gather the information you need, and then hit the ground running
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment that values creativity, fresh perspective, and terrific copy
• Have a portfolio of your recent work

Akona offers a salary commensurate with experience, an enjoyable and fun work environment, an extensive benefits package, 3 weeks of flex-time/vacation, and paid holidays.

To apply, submit your resume and cover letter to careers@akonaconsulting.com.

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