Wednesday, April 29, 2009

senior financial analyst

Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to work for a healthcare insurance company in San Francisco. Consultant will implement, support and improve the quality of the Hyperion financial reporting, Essbase cost allocation models, planning and forecasting systems.

Responsibilities Include
Own and drive business logic and processes for Actual/Forecast/Plan cost allocations.
Validate and reconcile data for Actual/Forecast/Plan cost allocations.
Provide cost allocation analysis.
Create financial models and conduct ad hoc analysis for senior management.
Interface with senior level business leaders regarding financial information.
Conduct monthly variance analysis and reporting for the business.
Analyze processes for improvements.
Provide Hyperion Essbase production support, including monthly data loads in Essbase reporting database, use HAL routines to update Essbase outlines for month end close, run batch jobs to run cost allocation process, and maintain drivers/assumptions in cost allocation Essbase database.

Skills Required
3 to 5 years experience in FP&A with strong experience with cost allocation models.
Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience working directly with Hyperion products including:
Experience in Hyperion System 9 version
Experience in the creation, modification, and support of Essbase calculation and report scripts, load rules, Esscmds, and report scripts
Strong Excel and Essbase Skills.
Strong analytical and communication skills.
Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast paced environment.
Detail oriented with strong organizational skills.
Ability to work with minimal supervision under strict time constraints.

Timing: 7 months, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: $50-$55 as W-2; ($55-$60 if S-Corp/LLC)

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please reply to this email with a current resume (in word format, not PDF) and a brief overview of your skills vis-à-vis this position.

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Sage Consulting Associates
601 Fourth Street, Suite 312
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.512.8200 (phone)
866.382.3938 (fax)
operations@sageca.com
www.SageCA.com

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Process Redesign Consultant

Sage Consulting Opportunity: Process Redesign Consultant (#543)
Posted by: "operations@sageca.com" operations@sageca.com
Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:07 pm (PDT)



We are sending you this email about a job opportunity.
Please pass along to friends/associates that may be
interested/appropri ate for this role.

Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Process Redesign
Consultant to work for a healthcare insurance company in San
Francisco. Consultant will be responsible for the business
processes focused on pharmacy claims processing.

Responsibilities Include
* Provide recommendations to the Project Team and Executives
on approach for documentation, analysis and redesign (documents
may include job aids such as forms, checklists, process flows,
policies and procedures, reports, dashboards, etc.).
* Gather all existing documents and ensure formatting and
style of documentation is consistent with agreed to approach.
* Develop process documentation inventory/repositor y and
inventory all existing documents, working directly with subject
matter experts within organization and external vendors.
* Finalize the revised, existing process documents with
Project Leads and Business Mgrs.
* Document and inventory remaining processes.
* Finalize remaining process documents.
* Perform analysis to identify easy process fixes and longer
term fixes.
* Work with Project Leaders & Mgrs, who will finalize and
prioritize recommendations
* Implement fixes (including updating process docs), audit/
monitor process changes to ensure adoption occurs and produce
reports on progress.
Skills Required
* 6+ years of experience doing business process work,
including analysis and implementing process re-design.
* Must have change management experience.
* Experience utilizing any of the following methodologies:
lean thinking, six sigma, ISO, capability maturity modeling,
Malcolm Baldrige, etc.
* MS Office applications (including Visio) in a live meeting
environment through web conferencing.
* Strong facilitation and negotiation skills
Skills Preferred
* Experience in claims processes.

Timing: 7 months, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: $60-$67 as W-2; ($69-$77 if S-Corp/LLC)

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please reply
to this email with a current resume (in word format, not PDF) and
a brief overview of your skills vis-à-vis this position.


Sage Consulting Associates
601 Fourth Street, Suite 312
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.512.8200 (phone)
866.382.3938 (fax)
operations@sageca. com
www.SageCA.com

Online Project Manger Creative Consultant

I'm a staffing consultant working with Wells Fargo Bank. We have a
contractor position open for our Online Marketing area. We are looking for an Online Project Manager Creative Consultant to work in downtown San Francisco. Below is the job description. If you think you have the qualifications and would be interested, please send your resume in a word doc to jayne@jlcpartners. com and call 925-362-9108 after 10:00 am. This is an on site position. 40 hours a week. 1099 or Corp to Corp. Pay rate depends on experience. The contract is expected to go long term – 12 months up to 18 months.

Creative Project Manager Consultant

As a member of the Online Marketing team you will serve as a liaison for
creative development for our online marketing assets. You will collaborate with developing and improving upon processes for how the online marketing team interfaces with the creative development group and agencies. Your involvement will streamline and expand the communication between various groups across the Internet Services Group and Lines of Business, as well as multiple levels of management.

Primary responsibility is to project manage the creative development request and approval processes related to the marketing assets used on the Wells Fargo internet platforms.

Creative Development (approx. 80%) project responsibilities will include:

· Manage creative development, and communications for inbound marketing
assets (banners, jump pages, splash pages, etc.)

· Coordinate timelines and create calendars for development and ensure
adherence. Scheduling is very important, so being able to juggle is necessary.

· Effectively interface with Marketing Managers, Online Marketing Team,
Legal and Compliance, Lines of Business, and the Creative Development group for
creative development, approval, and upload process

· Provide creative guidance from an online marketing perspective (e.g.
tones, graphics, verbiage)

Creative Development Process Definition (approx. 30%) campaign execution
responsibilities will include:

. Work with our 3rd party advertising agency. Keeping them on track with our needs.

· Collaborate in re-engineering creative development process

· Effectively communicate modified process to impacted team members and
management


Qualifications:

– Work experience: internet-related marketing including online campaign
development, execution, and tracking (utilizing banner, splash, third-party, email, etc.)

– Experience with developing and managing timelines, schedules and
deadlines

– Detailed oriented and have the ability to multi-task across various
projects with simultaneous deliverable deadlines

– Excellent verbal and written communication skills are a must as well
strong experience with Microsoft Office including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

– Experience with online marketing agency or previous experience working for an ad agency or similar is required.

If you are interested, please send your resume in a word doc to
jayne@jlcpartners. com and call 925-362-9108 after 10:00 am any day.

US Citizens or Green Card holders only

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Jayne

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Jayne Coleman, JLC Partners, Inc., JLC Consultants, Inc.
Staffing Consultant working with Wells Fargo Bank
Phone: 925-362-9108 Fax: 925-968-0549
Email: jayne@jlcpartners. com
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User Experience Designer

Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a User Experience Designer to work for a financial services company in downtown San Francisco. Consultant will be responsible for optimizing user experiences and reviewing/creating interactions throughout the site.

Responsibilities Include
Review various interactions throughout site and tools to identify like interactions, inconsistencies and areas to be more consistent across the various experiences.
Provide insights on improved site-wide interactions grounded in user-centered design and best practices for optimized user experiences.
Rationalize all the various design elements from third-party design agencies, i.e. best overall icon/symbol that will work site-wide, best icon to highlight premium content.
Document a new visual, interactive style guide for the site redesign.

Skills Required
7+ years of experience with user-centered visual design and interaction design.
Proven ability to provide insight on successful online interactions/usability.
Strong verbal and written documentation of style/interaction guidelines.

Skills Preferred
Financial services experience.

Timing: 4 months, 20 hrs per week
Start: 1/20/09
Location: downtown San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: $60-$63 as W-2; (N/A if S-Corp/LLC)

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please reply to this email with a current resume (in word format, not PDF) and a brief overview of your skills vis-à-vis this position.


Sage Consulting Associates
601 Fourth Street, Suite 312
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.512.8200 (phone)
866.382.3938 (fax)
operations@sageca.com
www.SageCA.com

online Production Associate

Sage Consulting Associates is looking for an Online Production Associate to work for a financial services company in downtown San Francisco. Consultant will be responsible for supporting existing and new online marketing initiatives; initiate and execute first-rate site design and development; and act as the key liaison between the Web Team and the Direct Marketing Team.

Responsibilities Include
Act as first point of contact for support and issue resolution.
Perform online marketing functions to ensure successful campaigns, and provide design support to enhance user experience..
Manage small and medium-sized web projects with internal and external partners.
Execute content approval process with business, legal, and compliance, and collaborate with vendors, IT, and data teams to ensure the highest level of accuracy and consistency..
Perform QA testing as needed on projects, including design enhancements, direct marketing and promotions.
Develop, deploy, and test content for web sites in various formats.

Skills Required
3+ years of web production and design experience in a large corporate or online agency environment.
2+ years of project management experience.
Familiarity with usage reporting.
Practical knowledge of HTML, Photoshop, TeamSite or other content publishing software.
Team player able to proactively communicate with business and technical partners.

Skills Preferred
Financial services web site experience.

Timing: 5 months, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: 1/21/09
Location: downtown San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: $35 as W-2; (N/A if S-Corp/LLC)

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please reply to this email with a current resume (in word format, not PDF) and a brief overview of your skills vis-à-vis this position.


Sage Consulting Associates
601 Fourth Street, Suite 312
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.512.8200 (phone)
866.382.3938 (fax)
operations@sageca.com
www.SageCA.com

HR Communications Manger

Sage Consulting Associates is looking for an HR Communications Manager to work for a utilities company in San Francisco. This individual will act as an individual contributor, and will plan and execute a broad range of program and project specific communication strategies and tactics aligned with HR’s overall business plan.

Responsibilities Include
Develop and maintain thorough understanding of company and HR’s overall business plan, key business drivers and stakeholders, and new and ongoing initiatives within the Company.
Partner closely with HR’s senior leadership team to remain current on challenges and opportunities affecting the company and its employees.
Make recommendations on how to best frame and position key issues utilizing strategic communications approaches and vehicles.
Develop integrated communications plans and tactical timelines that address key HR priorities and issues.
Develop messages for initiatives, topics and issues, regularly managing their effectiveness and updating them as necessary.
Incorporate messages into enterprise communications vehicles, including executive presentations and initiative-specific communications, as well as work with Line of Business communicators to incorporate messages into local vehicles.
Develop and oversee external HR communications strategies, including campaigns for external awards and recognition. Interface and coordinate with members of the corporate communications team to ensure that relevant content is disseminated effectively through appropriate enterprise communication channels – both internal and external (e.g. media, customer, corporate advertising).
Develop content for newsletters, brochures, posters and other collateral as needed.
Produce copy and orchestrate graphic content on HR-related news for enterprise communications vehicles.
Manage “look and feel” of HR materials to ensure they meet company standards and support the company’s brand strategy.
Provide strategic communications counsel to HR leadership (Sr. Directors and Directors) and draft various communications on their behalf.
Serve as initiative subject matter expert for enterprise and BU communicators.

Skills Required
7+ years of internal communications experience specifically with compensation, benefits and talent management.
Exceptional writing ability, creativity, oral communication and project management skills.
High degree of organizational/business acumen and the ability to work with individuals at all levels of the organization.
Flexibility and ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Skills Preferred
Labor relations (i.e., union environment) experience.
IABC accreditation (ABC).

Timing: PERMANENT, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: DOE as W-2; (n/a if S-Corp/LLC)

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please reply to this email with a current resume (in word format, not PDF) and a brief overview of your skills vis-à-vis this position.


Sage Consulting Associates
601 Fourth Street, Suite 312
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.512.8200 (phone)
866.382.3938 (fax)
operations@sageca.com
www.SageCA.com

Saturday, April 4, 2009

project manager - el dorado hills

Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Project Manager to work for a large healthcare insurance company in El Dorado Hills. Consultant will be responsible for resource planning, production scheduling, milestone tracking and project coordination on behalf of the web experience group for online initiatives.

Responsibilities Include
Oversee planning and execution of large, complex web projects and production schedules.
Gather project requirements and define scope of assigned projects.
Manage group documentation, presentations, tools and deliverables.
Exercise independent judgement in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criterion for obtaining results.
Provide input into designing strategies for alignment with business unit goals and objectives.
Ensure various team members provide high quality and cost effective services.
May provide guidance and leadership to and may supervise project consultants.

Skills Required
6+ years of web project management experience within the healthcare industry.
Demonstrated leadership, project management, program evaluation and consulting skills.
Ability to influence team members functioning in a matrix environment.

Timing: 1+ month, 40 hours (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: El Dorado Hills; onsite
Hourly rate: $43-$53 as W-2; ($50-$60 if S-Corp/LLC)

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please reply to this email with a current resume (in word format, not PDF) and a brief overview of your skills vis-à-vis this position.


Sage Consulting Associates
601 Fourth Street, Suite 312
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.512.8200 (phone)
866.382.3938 (fax)
operations@sageca.com
www.SageCA.com

product planning consultant - biotech south san francisco

Sage Consulting Associates is looking for a Product Planning Consultant to work for a biotech firm in South San Francisco. Consultant will be responsible for new product planning for immunology from pre-clinical to phase 2.

Responsibilities Include
Manage commercial product planning efforts for immunology by providing in-depth information about current and future markets, product performance, customers and competitors.
Evalute the market landscape, monitor changes and predict trends in market dynamics and competition. Provide recommendations on product differentiation strategies.
Perform new market opportunity assessments for research projects and business development opportunities.
Create, validate and refine forecasts for these opportunities.

Skills Required
8+ years of new product planning experience within the healthcare industry, including use of secondary and primary market research techniques.
Experience developing and using Excel-based models and conducting quantitative analysis.
Ability to use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, using creativity and ingenuity.
Persuasive written and verbal communication skills, including strong presentation skills.

Skills Preferred
Experience in biopharmaceuticals.
Experience as a management consultant at a top tier firm.
Immunology experience.

Timing: 1-4 months, 40 hrs (5 days) per week
Start: ASAP
Location: South San Francisco; onsite
Hourly rate: $80-$87 as W-2; (n/a if S-Corp/LLC)

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please reply to this email with a current resume (in word format, not PDF) and a brief overview of your skills vis-à-vis this position.



Sage Consulting Associates
601 Fourth Street, Suite 312
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.512.8200 (phone)
866.382.3938 (fax)
operations@sageca. com
www.SageCA.com