The Support Specialist will provide functional and technical assistance for customer planning and reporting solutions, focusing on post-implementation support and enhancing customer interactions with the Board platform.
At Board, we power financial and operational planning solutions for the world’s best brands. Thousands of enterprises use our technology to optimize resources, drive growth, and ensure profitability. With advanced analytics and forecasting, plus AI-driven insights, customers transform complex, real-time data into actionable intelligence.
What’s been key to our success? Our people—we value everyone’s unique perspective and energy they bring to the organization. We collaborate openly across teams and borders. We embrace a growth mindset to get results. And we celebrate shared success as goals and milestones are achieved.
Ready to join a team where innovation meets collaboration? If you're driven by bold ideas and a customer-centric mentality, your next adventure starts here!
We are currently looking for a Support Specialist to join a rapidly growing Support team. In this role, you will be accountable for providing assistance to a range of Management Information, Financial Reporting, Forecasting and Planning applications developed for some of Board’s key accounts.
The Support team plays a pivotal role in Board’s Customer Success strategy by providing industry leading post-implementation support. Through regular service review meetings, our Support Specialists are expected to maintain a strong grasp of our customers’ ever-changing business and functional requirements whilst helping them understand how Board can be used to achieve their goals.
Objectives:
Requirements:
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Join a company that believes in the added value of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We foster a working environment in which all people are respected and valued, for all aspects which make them unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!
What’s been key to our success? Our people—we value everyone’s unique perspective and energy they bring to the organization. We collaborate openly across teams and borders. We embrace a growth mindset to get results. And we celebrate shared success as goals and milestones are achieved.
Ready to join a team where innovation meets collaboration? If you're driven by bold ideas and a customer-centric mentality, your next adventure starts here!
We are currently looking for a Support Specialist to join a rapidly growing Support team. In this role, you will be accountable for providing assistance to a range of Management Information, Financial Reporting, Forecasting and Planning applications developed for some of Board’s key accounts.
The Support team plays a pivotal role in Board’s Customer Success strategy by providing industry leading post-implementation support. Through regular service review meetings, our Support Specialists are expected to maintain a strong grasp of our customers’ ever-changing business and functional requirements whilst helping them understand how Board can be used to achieve their goals.
Objectives:
- Provide qualified functional and technical assistance for existing customer Board planning and reporting solutions.
- Provide application support for Board’s ready-built Financial Consolidation applications.
- Participate in extensive knowledge transfer processes between delivery and maintenance teams.
- Be able to articulate, in deep technical detail how Board functionality can be used to meet Customer requirements and find a solution to business problems.
- Identify areas for improvement in existing applications.
- Work closely with the Board Product team by relaying Customer and market feedback.
- Assist Senior Specialists in meetings to provide insights to new features and functionality introduced in the Board Platform.
- Provide Reactive support for existing customers if/when questions/issues in their existing application arise.
Requirements:
- Educational background in Business, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Mathematics or any relevant technical field.
- Experience with systems like Anaplan, TM1, Oracle, O9, JDA/Blue Yonder, SAP is preferrable.
- Previous Support or Consulting experience within Supply Chain, FP&A or Retail planning will be a plus.
- Good understanding of financial processes (Financial Consolidation and Lease Reporting for example) is beneficial.
- Exposure to multi-dimensional or OLAP technology preferred.
- Knowledge of SQL advantageous.
- Great de-escalation skills and capacity to work in very tight time frames.
- Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and reverse engineering capacity.
- Ability to grasp elaborate business requirements and translate those into solutions within the Board platform.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Join a company that believes in the added value of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We foster a working environment in which all people are respected and valued, for all aspects which make them unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!
Top Skills
Anaplan
Jda/Blue Yonder
O9
Oracle
SAP
SQL
Tm1
BOARD International Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
33 Broad St, Boston, MA, United States, 02109
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