External Communications Specialist

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External Communications Specialist

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
  
  

This is a contingent position based upon contract award

KBR is seeking a highly motivated and career-oriented External Communications Specialist to join our team supporting a government client in Maryland. In this role you will be part of the Communication Services team.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide content for the website applications, including its social media application.
• Coordinate Government approval of content.
• Coordinate and manage daily content updates to the websites (Unclassif Title: Dynamics P2P Internal Functional Consultant
  
  

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

KBR employs approximately 29,000 people worldwide (including our joint ventures), with customers in more than 80 countries, and operations in 40 countries, across two synergistic global businesses.

About The Opportunity

The successful candidate will work within the Enterprise Systems Team (EST) of dedicated professionals responsible for the setup, configuration and ongoing support of KBR’s MS Dynamics D365 F&O ERP System used globally. The role is best suited for an individual that enjoys an element of variety in their working life, with the ability to adapt to challenges and turn them into process and or/systems improvements whilst ensuring compliance with the company’s global policies and procedures.

This exciting opportunity will see the candidate working closely with key stakeholders at all levels of the organisation. The ability to interact and communicate with internal and external customers is essential to support the business. The role is responsible for understanding the business processes, internal controls, integrations, interfaces and inter-dependencies of the system within the KBR infrastructure and the configuration of the ERP to meet those business needs.

KBR are implementing three products from the MS Dynamics 365 suite:-

• Finance and Operations
• Project Operations
• Invoice Capture
  
  

Here Is What You Will Be Doing

• Systems Analysis – analyse current system to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses for potential optimisation.
• Requirements elicitation – collecting, understanding and documenting the functional and non-functional requirements for change initiatives and translating them into user stories, ensuring they are well defined and read for development.
• Process modelling – create AS-IS and TO-BE process maps and user stories as part of a transition initiative.
• Prioritisation – working in close collaboration with the relevant stakeholders to gain approval and prioritisation for identified initiatives.
• Configuration – understand existing system configuration, be responsible for impact evaluation on the ERP or other systems should configuration change. Provide impact analysis and guidance of proposed configuration changes.
• Configuration documentation – document and maintain configuration documentation
• Workflows – understand workflow capabilities, create and maintain
• Support – Day to day support and administration activities. This is inclusive of support required through ERP upgrade cycles.
• Issue Resolution – investigate, determine cause, manage through to resolution.
• Functional design documentation – when required, produce functional design documentation to the standard that they can be passed to IT for development.
• Testing – produce test scenarios, test scripts, execute and document results to support the promotion to production lifecycle for enhancement, bugs and upgrades.
• User Training – Creation and maintenance of user guide materials, constant evolution of best practice delivery methods and technologies. Delivery of training either in person or via communication streams to small or large audiences.
• Reporting – Work with the reporting streams to ensure that all in-house reporting meets the business need.
  

What You’ll Bring (experience & Behaviours)

• Demonstrates a good understanding of MS Dynamics D365 Finance and Operations
• Demonstrates good working knowledge of IT technologies
• Proven record of accomplishment of systems support/implementation
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written.
• Skilled in translating and explaining complex data problems in easily understood, clear and concise terms.
• Strong presentation skills and comfortable presenting.
• Ability to understand both the bigger picture as well as individual tasks.
• Forward thinking, receptive to innovative ideas and suggestions, flexible, and able to look beyond the current way of doing things.
• Ability to work across multiple initiatives adjusting to shifting priorities.
• Dedicated team player and role model, capable of gaining trust and support of team and customers.
• Proactive and able to work under own initiative.
• Solid work ethic with attention to detail.
• Organised – ability to plan, prioritise and delegate where required.
  
  

Essentials

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED (QUALIFICATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS)

• An understanding of typical P2P processes.
• Experience supporting large user groups.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience of continuous stakeholder collaboration to gather and refine business requirements as well as keeping the stakeholder at the heart of design and development, implementation of change initiatives.
• Experience working in fast-moving, agile, dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the business, this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualisations.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to define and resolve problems methodically and logically.
• Demonstrated capability to work both independently and under the direction of experienced
  
  

Desirable/Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent experience.
• Oracle and SQL Server Database technologies including a high proficiency in SQL.
• Experience understanding and analysing information relating to complex programmes, such as risks, dependencies, issues and benefits.
  
  

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