NetSuite Implementation Consultant

SystemsAccountants Inc.; Tennessee; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SystemsAccountants Inc. seeks an experienced NetSuite Implementation Consultant & Project Manager to lead and own key aspects of an ongoing NetSuite rollout.

You will coordinate business stakeholders, IT, and the implementation partner to translate requirements into scalable ERP processes across finance, procurement, manufacturing, and supply chain. You will manage testing, data migration, go-live readiness, and post‑deployment stabilization, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with business

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of key aspects of an in-progress NetSuite implementation and help drive the project toward successful completion.
• Assess the current implementation status, open requirements, configuration decisions, integrations, customizations, data migration, testing, and outstanding issues.
• Serve as a functional subject matter expert and primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT, and the NetSuite implementation partner.
• Translate business requirements into scalable NetSuite processes and solutions.
• Review existing configurations and identify gaps, risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support configuration and validation of NetSuite functionality across areas such as: Financials and accounting, Order-to-cash, Procure-to-pay, Inventory management, Manufacturing, Supply chain, Planning and fulfillment, Warehouse operations, Purchasing, Product/item management, Reporting and analytics.
• Help evaluate and prioritize customizations versus standard NetSuite functionality.
• Coordinate requirements, design decisions, change requests, and issue resolution.
• Support integrations with third-party systems and other business applications.
• Manage day-to-day execution of the remaining implementation activities.
• Maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical path activities.
• Coordinate internal resources, external consultants, and business stakeholders.
• Track project risks, issues, decisions, action items, and dependencies through resolution.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, design reviews, testing meetings, and status updates.
• Provide regular project status reporting to leadership.
• Identify potential schedule, scope, resource, and budget risks and proactively develop mitigation plans.
• Help manage scope and change control throughout the remainder of the implementation.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time and meet agreed-upon business requirements.
• Partner closely with Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance teams to ensure NetSuite supports the company's operational processes.
• Help translate manufacturing requirements into practical ERP processes.
• Support areas such as bills of materials, work orders, routings, inventory, costing, production planning, purchasing, fulfillment, and quality-related processes as applicable.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and improve processes across departments.
• Ensure system design supports scalability, operational efficiency, accurate reporting, and appropriate controls.
• Lead or support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and end-to-end business process testing.
• Develop and manage test plans, scenarios, scripts, and defect resolution.
• Coordinate data validation and migration activities.
• Work with stakeholders to validate master data and transactional data.
• Support cutover planning, go-live readiness, and deployment activities.
• Develop and maintain go-live checklists and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate post-go-live stabilization and transition into ongoing NetSuite support.
• Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts to support organizational adoption of NetSuite.
• Help identify process and organizational impacts resulting from the implementation.
• Support development of training materials, standard operating procedures, and process documentation.
• Facilitate user training and knowledge transfer where needed.
• Promote adoption of standardized processes and NetSuite best practices.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Business process analysis

ERP requirements gathering

Project management

Functional leadership

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

NetSuite Implementation Consultant & Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

Implementation & Functional Leadership

• Take ownership of key aspects of an in-progress NetSuite implementation and help drive the project toward successful completion.
• Assess the current implementation status, open requirements, configuration decisions, integrations, customizations, data migration, testing, and outstanding issues.
• Serve as a functional subject matter expert and primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT, and the NetSuite implementation partner.
• Translate business requirements into scalable NetSuite processes and solutions.
• Review existing configurations and identify gaps, risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support configuration and validation of NetSuite functionality across areas such as:
  • Financials and accounting
  • Order-to-cash
  • Procure-to-pay
  • Inventory management
  • Manufacturing
  • Supply chain
  • Planning and fulfillment
  • Warehouse operations
  • Purchasing
  • Product/item management
  • Reporting and analytics
• Help evaluate and prioritize customizations versus standard NetSuite functionality.
• Coordinate requirements, design decisions, change requests, and issue resolution.
• Support integrations with third-party systems and other business applications.

Project Management

• Manage day-to-day execution of the remaining implementation activities.
• Maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical path activities.
• Coordinate internal resources, external consultants, and business stakeholders.
• Track project risks, issues, decisions, action items, and dependencies through resolution.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, design reviews, testing meetings, and status updates.
• Provide regular project status reporting to leadership.
• Identify potential schedule, scope, resource, and budget risks and proactively develop mitigation plans.
• Help manage scope and change control throughout the remainder of the implementation.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time and meet agreed-upon business requirements.

Manufacturing & Operations

• Partner closely with Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance teams to ensure NetSuite supports the company's operational processes.
• Help translate manufacturing requirements into practical ERP processes.
• Support areas such as bills of materials, work orders, routings, inventory, costing, production planning, purchasing, fulfillment, and quality-related processes as applicable.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and improve processes across departments.
• Ensure system design supports scalability, operational efficiency, accurate reporting, and appropriate controls.

Testing, Data & Go-Live

• Lead or support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and end-to-end business process testing.
• Develop and manage test plans, scenarios, scripts, and defect resolution.
• Coordinate data validation and migration activities.
• Work with stakeholders to validate master data and transactional data.
• Support cutover planning, go-live readiness, and deployment activities.
• Develop and maintain go-live checklists and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate post-go-live stabilization and transition into ongoing NetSuite support.

Change Management & Training

• Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts to support organizational adoption of NetSuite.
• Help identify process and organizational impacts resulting from the implementation.
• Support development of training materials, standard operating procedures, and process documentation.
• Facilitate user training and knowledge transfer where needed.
• Promote adoption of standardized processes and NetSuite best practices.