Sage X3 Technical Specialist

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Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Systems Engineer and the Head of Operations, you'll contribute to analysing, unravelling, and extracting data from a Sage X3 environment, ensuring it's clean, structured and ready for migration into NetSuite, as a key part of a major financial systems transformation project.

Please note this is a one-year fixed-term role, open to dedicated contractors, freelancers or full-time employees seeking a new project.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Analyse and document the current state of a highly customised Sage X3 implementation, focusing on finance modules, to reverse-engineer complex customisations and understand data flows.

• Develop and execute data extraction strategies for both standard and customised financial data from Sage X3 into SQL Server, ensuring its validation and readiness for NetSuite migration.

• Collaborate with the Finance, IT, and Systems teams to ensure technical solutions meet business needs by translating financial requirements into technical and data extraction specifications.

• Design and optimise SQL queries to interrogate databases and surface required financial datasets.

• Modify and optimise Crystal Reports, focusing on improving accuracy, performance, and output reliability by reducing complexity.

• Contribute to data mapping documentation between Sage X3 and NetSuite.

• Troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues, including extraction errors, Crystal Reports discrepancies, SQL query performance, and incorrect or incomplete data relationships.

• Conduct root-cause analysis for data anomalies, and participate in data reconciliation activities during test cycles and cutover..

Qualifications

• Over 4 years of hands-on experience with Sage X3, including scripts, objects, processes, data dictionaries, and data import/export mechanisms.

• Proficiency in SQL Server, T-SQL, and querying for data extraction and transformation.

• Experience designing, modifying, and troubleshooting Crystal Reports.

• Past or current involvement in at least one ERP migration or data transformation project.

• Knowledge of financial data structures and familiarity with accounting principles.

• You're good at adapting strategies and plans to navigate unforeseen circumstances.

• When faced with a problem, you collaborate with the appropriate people to evaluate different options find practical solutions.

Note: We emphasise skills, expertise and behavioural attributes over years of experience and traditional degrees. If you want to join our collaborative team, we invite you to apply today with your resume in English.

Additional Information

Join Jellyfish and experience a workplace where we prioritise your growth, celebrate your contributions, and empower you to tailor your work environment to suit your needs.

💰 Reward: You'll be eligible to join our discretionary annual bonus scheme.

💫 Custom Work Environment: Option to work remotely and shape your day between 8am and 6:30pm with flexible working hours.

📈 Growth, Your Way: Accumulate one paid day each month (2 hours per week) for self-development and access to Jellyfish Learn.

👪 Family Support: Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers. We also provide £1000 (or equivalent) towards courses for returning primary caregivers to support your transition back into work.

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