Software Implementation Consultant

Unanet, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 89,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee equity

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Unanet, Inc. is seeking a Senior Consultant for its AEC Professional Services team to guide and deliver complex ERP implementations from discovery through go-live.

You will translate client processes into Unanet solutions, oversee data migration, and drive adoption through training and change management. You will mentor peers, support multiple engagements concurrently, and help clients achieve scalable, efficient project accounting and compliant month-end processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of ERP implementation or software consulting experience.
• Experience supporting architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms or implementing ERP solutions for project-based organizations.
• Experience with accounting systems, project management processes, and/or practical accounting experience.
• Advanced proficiency using Microsoft Excel to analyze, manipulate, and validate large data sets.
• Proven ability to understand and document complex business requirements and translate them into actionable solution recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions and translate clients' business processes, accounting policies, and operational requirements into scalable Unanet ERP solutions, including invoicing, revenue recognition, labor costing, project accounting, cost pools, and overhead allocations.
• Lead clients through the full implementation lifecycle, including requirements gathering, configuration, data migration, training, testing, and go-live, using Unanet's milestone-based implementation methodology.
• Partner with clients during their first financial close cycle to support reconciliation activities, strengthen process consistency, and build confidence in month-end procedures and controls.
• Lead client training and change management activities to drive adoption, process alignment, and successful business outcomes.
• Partner with project managers to deliver engagements on schedule, within budget, and aligned with client objectives while managing multiple concurrent implementations.

Skills

ERP implementations

AEC industry experience

Advanced Excel

Requirements documentation

Leadership of large projects

AI productivity tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Business

Tools

Unanet ERP

Job description

As a Senior Consultant on Unanet's AEC Professional Services team, you will serve as a trusted advisor and hands-on solution expert to architecture and engineering clients. You will lead multiple implementations of varying complexity across the full lifecycle, from discovery through go-live, aligning Unanet's ERP software with each client's business processes, accounting requirements, and project management needs. Through implementation, training, and adoption support, you will help clients achieve successful outcomes and build a solution that can scale with their evolving business.

What You'll Do

• Lead discovery sessions and translate clients' business processes, accounting policies, and operational requirements into scalable Unanet ERP solutions, including invoicing, revenue recognition, labor costing, project accounting, cost pools, and overhead allocations
• Leverage AI-powered tools and internal automations to improve the efficiency and quality of data migration, system configuration, and client onboarding activities
• Lead clients through the full implementation lifecycle, including requirements gathering, configuration, data migration, training, testing, and go-live, using Unanet's milestone-based implementation methodology
• Partner with clients during their first financial close cycle to support reconciliation activities, strengthen process consistency, and build confidence in month-end procedures and controls
• Lead client training and change management activities to drive adoption, process alignment, and successful business outcomes
• Partner with project managers to deliver engagements on schedule, within budget, and aligned with client objectives while managing multiple concurrent implementations
• Mentor less experienced consultants, particularly on complex or multi-resource implementations, and contribute to the continuous improvement of Professional Services methodologies and best practices
• Maintain expertise in Unanet capabilities and emerging product functionality to provide trusted advisory guidance to clients
• Travel up to 30% (as needed) to support client engagements

Your First 90 Days

In your first 30 days, you'll complete onboarding, attend product training sessions and webinars, and begin building your expertise through Unanet's Help Center and Learning Management System (LMS). You'll develop a personalized training plan with your manager and shadow at least two (2) client implementations to gain firsthand experience with our implementation methodology and client engagements.

In your first 60 days, you'll continue progressing through your training plan while participating in additional implementation engagements alongside experienced consultants. Through hands-on practice using recorded resources and a demo environment, you'll become proficient in Unanet Time & Expense and begin contributing to client implementation activities under the guidance of senior team members.

In your first 90 days, you'll expand your expertise in Unanet Financials, take ownership of portions of live client implementations, and confidently support customers through key implementation milestones. By the end of your first 90 days, you'll be making meaningful contributions to client engagements while achieving a 25% billable utilization target.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of ERP implementation or software consulting experience
• Experience supporting architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms or implementing ERP solutions for project-based organizations
• Experience with accounting systems, project management processes, and/or practical accounting experience
• Advanced proficiency using Microsoft Excel to analyze, manipulate, and validate large data sets
• Proven ability to understand and document complex business requirements and translate them into actionable solution recommendations
• Experience leading large, complex client implementations while serving as a trusted advisor and champion of implementation best practices
• Comfortable leveraging AI-powered productivity tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or similar technologies) to improve efficiency, documentation, analysis, and client delivery

Your Differentiators

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
• Strong accounting foundation with practical experience in general ledger, revenue recognition, cost accounting, project accounting, and financial reporting

Our Values

• We are a Team. Employees, customers, and partners working together.
• We are Customer-Focused. Customers are the heart of everything we do.
• We are Driven. Seeking exceptional outcomes.
• We Own our Success. Every employee has a stake in our company.
• We do the right thing and have fun in the process.

The salary range for this opportunity is $88,800 - 116,000 per year. You will be eligible for employee equity as well as discretionary bonus compensation, subject to plans that may be in effect from time to time. You will further be eligible to participate in Unanet's employee benefits plans and programs. For more details on Unanet's benefits offerings, please visit https://unanet.com/employee-benefits.

Unanet is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered for positions without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws.