GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company focused on solving some of the world's toughest problems. With products and services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, water processing and security technology to medical imaging, business and consumer financing, media content and advanced materials, GE serves customers in more than 100 countries and employs more than 300,000 people worldwide.
GE Corporate is looking for an IT consultant.
Essential Responsibilities
Day-to-day operations support of 1c financial application across the CIS region (Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine)
- Manage user access (user ID management, client installations, remote access installations)
- Develop and maintain quality System Administration documents/checklists as well as training material.
- Assist in the implementation of new security initiatives.
- Work with GE teams and external vendors to triage, troubleshoot, and debug application issues (e.g., performance, errors, connectivity, etc).
- Complete detailed root cause analysis of outages and help to ensure highest availability of the production applications.
- Analyze and apply 1c Application patches and Stat & Tax Updates.
- Design and develop change control processes, and ensure changes follow controls.
- Provide on going capacity analysis and planning to determine future projections of hardware requirements and/or configuration changes.
- Plan, coordinate and communicate work with other teams for system maintenance.
Partner with functional and IT teams throughout the execution of 1c of minor and major 1c projects
- Follow closely the planned 1c 7.7 to 8.1 upgrade project through all project phases (functional specification, technical design, build, testing and production cutover)
- Ensure vendor delivers with highest quality standards
- Ensure proper and up to date system documentation is available
- Analyze synergies of the 1c implementations and propose plans to simplify hosting and database, share code / configuration across the region
- Ad-hoc translations between Russian and English may be required (both written and oral)
Essential qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent
- 5 years hands-on System Administrator experience with 1c Enterprise - Corporate Financial Management application administration and configuration
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting/debugging skills
- Fluent English and Russian, both oral and written
Desired characteristics
- Experience with 1c 7.7 to 8.x upgrades
- Demonstrated knowledge of both 1c 7.7 and 8.1 versions
- Experience with one or more localizations of 1c: Ukrainian, Azeri or Kazakh
- Experience with 1c Payroll and Warehouse modules
- Experience with multinational companies using both Russian and US GAAP accounting
- Team player, working in a geographically distributed organization
- Understanding general account principles is plus