Senior Consultant - Power Automate

About the roleWe have big ambitions and our Services division is at the heart of them. A key part of this ambition is the growth of our Business Intelligence Consulting team, which has created an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and ambitious Senior Consultant who is passionate about developing automation solutions for customers using Microsoft Power Automate Cloud.
In the role you’ll be a key member of the team delivering customer-funded consultancy and projects focused on automation of HR, People and Payroll processes. The consultancy work ranges from the development of both small and enterprise-scale automation flows, interaction with internal and external systems, event driven notifications, and the build of fully-featured Power Platform solutions.
As a Senior Consultant you'll work on many client deliveries, partnering with customers throughout the full life cycle of a project from initial discovery sessions, scoping workshops, writing specifications, development, through to user acceptance testing and handover. You'll be a passionate advocate for business intelligence automation, and will regularly support Sales, Commercial and Customer Success Managers in pre-sales discussions to promote the Business Intelligence practice.
Key success measures for the role will include building positive relationships with customers, delivering quality work on time and on budget, achieving excellent NPS feedback, and achieving chargeability targets. You’ll be a strong communicator and able to engage audiences up to C-suite, using your industry experience to advise, consult and deliver solutions which provide value to the customer.
You'll be passionate about learning and keeping up-to-date on relevant skills, knowledge, tools and industry practices/solutions, to ensure you're able to continuously develop and have the appropriate knowledge to engage stakeholders internally and externally.
Key responsibilities will include:
Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to define, scope and quote projects, advising on best practice and recommended solutions.
Leadership to deliver projects and solutions to time, cost and quality targets.
Acting as a coach or mentor to other Consultants to help develop their skills and career development paths, including performance management of individuals and managing against team KPIs and objectives (i.e., engagement, chargeability, recruitment, lead times, etc).
Taking ownership of key targets and SLAs, proactively managing your own performance and mitigating any risks of underperformance.
Proactively contributing to the growth of the Business Intelligence practice through supporting Commercial, Sales and Customer Success Managers to promote the range and value of Zellis Customer Solutions.
Driving continuous improvement of customer experience, taking a proactive approach to reviewing and acting on customer feedback.
Skills & experience
4+ years of experience in large-scale Microsoft Power Automate development and implementation.
Deep technical expertise in REST APIs and flows, Azure API Management (APIM), and in integrating disparate systems and data sources both on-premise and cloud-based.
Comfortable participating and contributing to pre-sales engagements and providing demos, proof-of-concepts and idea generation to garner interest and secure business.
Superb interpersonal skills with the ability to tailor your communication to colleagues and customers regardless of their technical understanding.
Proven consultancy experience working with clients to deliver Microsoft-based solutions.
Proven experience working in both Agile and Waterfall project delivery.
Power Platform Certifications: PL-600 (desirable), PL-500, PL-200, and/or significant proven professional experience with Power Automate Cloud.
Experience with Power Platform administration (Centre of Excellence, environments, users, licensing, etc) also desirable.
Data and analytics experience, including dashboard development using Power BI would also be desirable, as would any existing knowledge of ResourceLink’s tables and data structures specifically around base tables (HR, Payroll and Pensions), Leave Management, PDR, Time and Attendance, MyView, Expenses.
You'll be self-motivated, proactive and willing to take ownership for delivering agreed outputs. You'll be highly collaborative (with peers and clients) to deliver projects, with the confidence to challenge where appropriate to achieve the right business outcomes. You'll also be resilient and comfortable working under pressure and to tight deadlines.Benefits & culture
At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.
Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation.Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:
Unstoppable together.
Always learning.
Make it count.
Think scale.
Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services.With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.
We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:
A competitive base
salary, plus cash car allowance.
25 days annual leave,
plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
Private medical
insurance.
Life assurance 4x
salary.
Enhanced pension scheme
with company contributions up to 8.5%.
A huge range of
additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing,
lifestyle & leisure.
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