Saturday, December 26, 2009

XBRL Financial Reporting Specialist

Experience

2-7 yrs

General Summary

The XBRL Content Specialist  will be tasked with reviewing XBRL files to ensure they are within SEC requirements and within client-stated guidelines. The XBRL files will contain the face Financial Statements and Notes to Financial Statements found in public company’s annual and quarterly filings.  The review process requires working with many file formats and internet applications in order review reports and rendering of XBRL files, for accuracy and compliance with SEC guidelines.  This individual should have an accounting background, 4-year accounting degree or 4-year Bachelor degree with a minor in Accounting.  This individual should also have Customer Service or Customer Relations experience and be able to explain issues to internal or external clients in an email format and over the telephone.

Job Scopes/Metrics

Reports to the Director, XBRL Operations.  No direct reports.

Performance Indicators

Responds to and resolves client’s concerns regarding XBRL.
 
Maintains thorough knowledge of taxonomies, government legislation, SEC regulations, and US GAAP changes related to areas of responsibility. Informs supervisor of developments and trends that presently or potentially impact areas of responsibility.

Education

Bachelors’ degree in accounting or finance (CPA preferred but not required.)

 

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Oracle Architect

 

Client                                      : CMMI Level -5 Company

Work Location                      : Mumbai
Experience Required          : 7+ years

Technical Skills Required:

 

·         Excellent Knowledge of Investment Banking Domain

·         In-depth Knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL

·         Advanced knowledge of Performance Tuning

·         Database Administration & Tuning

·         Database Designing capabilities

·         Unix

·         PERL

 

 

Inside Sales Executive

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Dedicated Telesales resource is responsible for managing Medium Business segment customers in a territory (800-1000 MB customers or 2000-2400 SB customers)

          Responsible for creating a qualified opportunity pipeline that results in full Target attainment. - Update all the activities in Siebel

          Sales and Up-selling of Client’s products, Licensing and Anti-Piracy services

          Provide information to small and medium sized business customers (potential customers) on Client’s products, Licensing and Anti-Piracy services

          Update knowledge of customers product line and service offerings, current products and technologies

          Able to identify customer sales opportunities that meet Client’s financial parameters & Execute on customer reach plan  which results in generating qualified opportunities and drives customer loyalty

          Ability to understand customer requirements and communicate solutions on the phone

          Interact and follow-up with Partner Account Managers & channel partners.

          Ensure proper escalation procedures.

 

CRITICAL SKILLS REQUIRED ( at the time of hitting shop floor)

Vision and Skills

          Understanding of Client's Technical Vision, business solutions utilizing the Client’s platform, and thorough knowledge of assigned product set

          Understanding of business decision sales cycles and the sales process – apply appropriately as it relates to delivering Client technologies to customers

          Understands account teams' strategy and objectives.  Participates in individual/team projects to support business goals and initiatives

          Organizational, communication, negotiation, and problem solving skills

          Develops strategy and objectives related to technology/solution focus, understands competitors

          Provides input to and leads local Technical Readiness and Sales Readiness Initiatives

Communication /business relationships:

          Demonstrates concise and effective communication with customers and employees

          Speaks Clearly - Delivers articulate, effective, and audience-appropriate presentations/demonstrations for Client products/technologies, strategies, and initiatives

          Generate excitement and enthusiasm for Client products and technology

          Leads sharing of best practices with team members

          Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with customer, partners, team lead and relevant Client resource persons.

Fiscal Responsibilities:

          Meets assigned revenue goal (Metrics % conversion rate on opportunities)

          Constant Opportunity generation and ensuring existence of qualified rolling funnel at any given time.

          Smart data-mining effort for creating cross-sell/ Up-sell/ Legalization opportunities.

 

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION (Must have/ Good to have)

Must

·         Graduate with good academic record preferably with a Technical Qualification (Engineer preferred)

·         Good communicator,: command over English language, ability to present his/her point of view effectively, negotiation skills

·         Experience of 2-4 years of sales and marketing preferably in IT sales and marketing

·         Result Orientation, demonstrated performance in past records.

Good to have

·         Technology or Information systems background

·         Ability to understand technology and develop solutions with solution selling skills.

·         Good organizational skills

·         Good interpersonal skills

 

 

 

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Microsoft BI Developer

For Gurgaon based fortune 500 company into medical implants & equipment business:

 

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for development of Reports using SSRS, Developing Cubes using SSAS and populating the Warehouse data using SSIS. The person will be responsible for design, implementation and enhancement of ETL jobs. Responsibility includes fine tuning the Cubes for optimal performance and Integrating SSRS and SSAS with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

 

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

·         Development with SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio using SSRS and SSAS  

·         Proven experience in design and development of Data Warehouses, Cubes and Reports.

·         Programming with Transact SQL and DTS/SSIS packages

·         Administration of SQL 2005 and 2008, including the Database Engine, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Integration Services;

·         Integrating the Reports/KPIs/Dashboards etc. with MOSS.

·         Understand what functionality is available as well as what has already been implemented. Advise on new solutions for SQL and the relevant reporting infrastructure.

·         Consult with end-users to analyze and understand user needs, objectives, desired features, and input and output requirements.

Skill Set

Primary

·         Expertise in developing and designing Cubes using SSAS and Reports using SSRS

·         Strong Experience in SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio

·         Experience with integration of SSRS/SSAS Integration with WSS/MOSS

·         Experience with Microsoft SSAS/SSRS/SSIS on MS SQL Server 2005 and 2008.

·         Excellent communication & documentation skills;

·         Knowledge of the .Net framework for use with SQL Server 2005;

·         Familiarity with current infrastructure architecture and Windows Server environment.

·         Strong experience in all phases of the system development lifecycle including planning, analysis, design, construction, testing, and support

·         Adept at implementing IT best practices and adhering to methodology. 

·         Must have excellent written and oral communication skills and be well organized.

·         Must have strong problem solving skills.

Additional

·         DBA Experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008.

 

Desired Profile:

Education: MCA/BE (Certification as a MCDBA or MCITP: Database Administrator)

Experience: 6-9 years

 

 

 

Monday, December 14, 2009

Sr. SAP CO/FI Consultant

Employer:                               Technology arm of the US $3 billion company              

Position Type:                         Permanent

Base Location:                        Gurgaon

Project Location                     Bangalore                    

Total Experience:                   7-15 Yrs

Relevant SAP Experience:     3-6 Yrs

 

Requirement:

                                                                                                       

·         At least 4 yrs to 6 yrs relevant experience in SAP FICO.

·         Excellent knowledge for process industries, AS-Is study, documentation, blueprint, customization.

·         Must have at least 2 end to end implementation
Excellent in requirement gathering, business blue printing.

·         Cost Center Accounting (Planning, Posting, Assessment and distribution, variance calculation)

·         Project Costing.

·         Internal Order.

·         Profitability analysis.

·         Budgetary control, controlling limited functionality of Funds Management.

·         Must have good hands on experience in CO.

 

Essentials:

 

·         Ready to travel to any part of India.

·         Should have valid passport.

·         Should be willing to join as early as possible.

 

 

Monday, December 7, 2009

Torque News: Edition (December 09)

Industry Updates:

 

ª  Job street in India to get flooded by next year with the hiring plans of the Global consultancy firms Accenture,

Deloitte, banks StanChart and Barclays and Indian IT giant Infosys (Source: ET)

ª  India’s GDP (7.9%) beat all forecasts, showing that the economy is in fine fettle (Source: ET)

ª  The Internet pioneer formerly known as America Online, now known as AOL, will be known as Aol (Source: Reuters)

ª  MphasiS reported a sharp 44% rise in revenue and a two-fold jump in profit after tax (PAT) during the year ended October 2009 (Source: ET)

 

Launches & Innovations

 

ª  Yahoo! integrates Twitter with news search (Source: Strategyeye)

ª  Twitter and LinkedIn share status updates (Source: Indiatimes)

ª  New Informatica platform to enable the Data-Driven Enterprise

(Source: Biztech2.com)

ª  Microsoft to launch Azure cloud service early next year (Source: Reuters)  

ª  Wipro released a medical gateway device that can remotely gather vital patient data, format them as standard patient information and upload them into servers and platforms for hospitals to access (Source: Deccan Herald)

ª  New Enterprise Messaging, Content Security Solns Unveiled By WatchGuard (Source: Biztech2.com)

ª  IBM has launched a new cloud computing service, aiming to take on companies such as Amazon.com Inc,

Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc. (Source: Indiatimes)

 

Deals, Contracts & Expansions

 

ª  IBM to buy the database security start-up Guardium (Source: Reuters)

ª  HCL Technologies bags $200-m deal from UK firm (Source: Indiatimes) & also wins an outsourcing order (Source: ET)

ª  STel awards five-year system integration contract to Tech Mahindra (Source: ET)

ª  Genpact bags a five-year back office services contract from telecom operator Unitech Wireless (Source: ET)

ª  Wipro bags Australian university deal (Source: Indiatimes)

ª  Avaya collaborates with Orange Business Services in India for unified communications services and solutions (Source: Avaya)

ª  Juniper to invest $400mn in India (Source: Indiatimes)

ª  Google buys AdMob, Secures Strength in Mobile Advertising (Source: Gizmodo)

ª  Ciena Corp will buy Nortel Networks Corp's optical networking and carrier Ethernet business (Source: ET)

ª  Ericsson to buy Nortel's U.S. GSM Business (Source: WSJ)

ª  Infosys BPO to buy U.S. McCamish Systems (Source: WSJ)

ª  MySpace close to acquire iMeem (Source: Techcrunch)

ª  Wipro buys Yardley personal care businesses for $45.5mn (Source: ET)

 

 

Other Updates

 

ª  BPO & KPO chief of Infosys quits (Source: ET)

ª  LinkedIn sets up shop in India, ropes in MySpace's India head (Source: ET)

ª  SAP appoints Peter Gartenberg as Chief Operating Officer for India (Source: Biztech2.com)

ª  Mahindra Satyam appoints Sudhir Nair as the Head of Infrastructure Services (Source: Mahindra Satyam)

ª  Wipro opens centre in China (Source: Indiatimes)

ª  Infosys opens 2nd Latin America IT development center serving global, near-shore & Latin Amer. Clients (Source: Infosys)

 

Hiring & Firing

 

ª  Adobe cuts 680 jobs (Source: Reuters)

ª  Microsoft is cutting 800 more jobs in addition to the 5,000 layoffs announced previously (Source: ET)

ª  TCS hires 300 associates for its US Software Delivery Center (Source : ET)

ª  Accenture to hire 8,000 in India (Source: Indiatimes)

ª  Deloitte to hire 15,000 people in India (Source : ET)

ª  Infosys Technologies plans to hire around 20,000 next year (Source: Biz. Std.)

ª  Patni to hire up to 1,500 next year (Source: Biz. Std.)

ª  Capgemini to expand India headcount (Source: Indiatimes)

ª  Nokia to cut 220 R&D jobs (Source: Indiatimes)

ª  Mahindra Satyam plans to appoint 1,000 freshers by December 15 (Source: Indiatimes)

 

Addwiser Pick of the month

How Not Achieving Something Is the Key to Achieving It

http://bit.ly/2s9ewT (Source: Harvard Business)

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Position                               : Sr.SAP CO Consultant (Work Exp: 7 to 15 yrs)

For a US$ 3Bn MNC

Base Location                    : Gurgaon

Project Location               : Karwar, Karnataka

Relevant Exp. In SAP      : 4 to 6 years

 

Job Description:

 

·         At least 4 yrs to 6 yrs relevant experience in SAP FICO.

·         Excellent knowledge for process industries, AS-Is study, documentation, blueprint, customization.

·         Must have at least 2 end to end implementation.

·         Excellent in requirement gathering, business blue printing.

·         Preferable to have food processing, Agri, seed processing domain experience.

·         Very good knowledge in implementation process.

·         Cost Center Accounting (Planning, Posting, Assessment and distribution, variance calculation)

·         Project Costing.

·         Internal Order.

·         Profitability analysis.

·         Budgetary control, Controlling limited functionality of Funds Management.

·         Must have good hands on experience in CO.

 

Essentials:

 

·         He/She should be a CA/ICWAI/ICAI from reputed institute.

·         At least 7 to 15 yrs total experience in IT.

·         Ready to travel to any part of India.

·         Should have valid passport.

·         Should be willing to join as early as possible.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Sr Software Engineer - SharePoint

For US based Fortune 500 Company into medical domain based out of Gurgaon

 

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Required an experienced and motivated professional, who will play a key role in building the organization.
  • Conduct design and development activities to ensure that timelines and project target costs are met.
  • Plan, schedule, and coordinate activities related to development projects.
  • Creating and reviewing prototypes, integrating systems, site architecture management, implementing end-to-end solutions, managing a team and partnering with onsite teams.
  • Demonstrate a proactive role in anticipating potential issues to ensure progress is uninterrupted.
  • Involvement in new business development and building successful client relationships that leads to repeat business opportunities.
  • Use a hands-on or analytical approach to provide technical guidance and resolution of any outstanding problems.
  • Able to customize and configure the SharePoint out-of-box features through SharePoint Designer 2007 using VB Script, Java Script, XML, XSLT, XSD, XQUERY, CAML, Web Services, C# not limiting to the following area:
    • Data Views/Forms and Web Parts
    • Work Flows
  • Able to customize the SharePoint Sites and Portals by creating Custom Site Templates, Page Layouts, Master Pages, Site Definitions, Themes / CSS etc.
  • Should have the ability to multi-task, learn and adapt quickly to related technologies in a fast paced environment.
  • In addition of technical depth and breadth, candidate should have excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
  • Be mindful of risk reduction strategies and lead risk analysis.
  • Demonstrate good time management skills.

 

This person will be responsible for designing and developing software applications for divisions

 

Technical Skill Set

Primary

  • Object oriented analysis, design and programming (OOA, OOD, OOP)
    • UML(unified modeling language)
    • Design Patterns
  • Core Skill Set
    • Language: Java Script, C#, CAML
    • XML Domain: XML/XSLT/XSD/CAML/OOXML/XQUERY/XPATH
    • Tools: Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Expertise in WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Object Model and SharePoint Web Services
  • Experience in solutions implementation, Developing Web Parts, Custom Work Flows (using Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), Features, Event handlers, Web Services with Feature implementation with .Net design and development skills.
  • Experience in integrating with third party components.
  • Must be experienced in SharePoint Templates (Application Templates, Master Pages, Role-Based Templates) creation
  • Must possess expertise in packaging and deployment of MOSS solutions to remote and inaccessible systems with easy and error proof installation techniques (WSP, batch files)

 

Additional

·         Worked on the MS Business Intelligence Components like building KPI dashboards, Scorecards, Reports using SharePoint Excel Services

·         Experience in SSAS, SSRS as BI Platform in pulling data from various data sources like SQL, Access, Oracle Etc.

·         Experience in developing Custom Workflows using InfoPath form services.

·         Experience in Windows Presentation Foundation (WCF) is a plus.

 

Desired Profile

Education:

  • B.Tech/B.E/M.Tech/MS. -  Computers, Electronics/Telecommunications
  • MCTS certifications around SharePoint would be a big plus.
  • Experience: 6-9 years