Vice President of Finance Founded in 2006, Spruce Technology is a leading provider of Information Technology (IT) services for the public, private, and federal sectors. An award-winning firm (Inc 5000, SmartCEO) with a steadily growing portfolio of clients, Spruce Technology provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT consulting services. With clients in over 30 states, Spruce is a certified Minority-owned Business Enterprise (MBE) and an established partner with many leading technology companies such as Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, and more. Spruce Technology, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, pregnancy, race, creed, color, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, genetic information, religion, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The Vice President Finance will play a key role in our growing team, establishing a more robust financial planning processes, and contributing to a collaborative team culture. The VP of Finance will be responsible for managing all aspects of finance and accounting throughout this rapidly growing organization. The VP of Finance will serve as a member of the executive team supporting Operations and the CEO along with providing financial input to key members of the Board of Directors. Real time communication on the financial health of the company is critical to ensure adequate capitalization, scalable processes, and streamlined operations Please visit for additional information on our services. Business & Financial Strategy Financial Strategy: Develop the financial strategy to ensure effective capital structure and be held accountable for maintaining enough resources to achieve the roadmap set forth. Operational Strategy: Define Objective and Key Results with measurable and quantifiable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Models: Develop models across the organization building strategy through precise forecasting, creating benchmarks and accountability ultimately ensuring we are resourced to meet and exceed the needs of a changing business environment. Treasury Management: Cash management and banking relationships. Tax Planning: Manage tax strategy for optimization. Risk Management: Manage insurance and liability strategies. Risk-Insurance. Ensure proper coverage and balance of risk for the Company. Accounting Accounting: Lead all general ledger, payroll, internal auditing, AR/AP, collections, reporting, and budgetary and expense controls. Work closely with cost accounting personnel in maintaining accurate standards and the updating of these costs annually for the business plan. Systems: Establish systems suitable for a high growth company with established customers Audit: Work with the company's auditors to ensure compliance/completion of all financial statements. Financial Statements: Prepare all accounting and financial analyses of operations, including interim and final financial statements with supporting schedules, for the guidance of management. Business Metrics / Reporting: Ensure executives, directors, are continually aware of the company's current financial position relative to plan through reliable financial and operations statements, forecasts, and controls issued on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis. Team Leadership Leadership: Lead the accounting and finance team (internal and outsourced) while supporting other departments as a high-ranking executive. Work with and inspire a group of incredibly smart, mission-driven people by giving them the tools, mentorship, and motivation to innovate and make decisions that support the vision of the company. Culture: Shape and nurture a culture of mission-focus, openness, integrity, excellence, ingenuity, and passion. Qualifications Experience in the IT industry with CPA. Experience in commercial bank financing. Substantial hands-on experience with reporting systems Experience developing and implementing financial management and budget control systems. Experienced with deal structuring and contract negotiations. Conversant in U.S. GAAP accounting rules. Conversant in tax structures. Equity and debt capital raising experience. Experience developing dashboards and KPIs to track business success. - provided by Dice
10/17/2021
Full time
Vice President of Finance Founded in 2006, Spruce Technology is a leading provider of Information Technology (IT) services for the public, private, and federal sectors. An award-winning firm (Inc 5000, SmartCEO) with a steadily growing portfolio of clients, Spruce Technology provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT consulting services. With clients in over 30 states, Spruce is a certified Minority-owned Business Enterprise (MBE) and an established partner with many leading technology companies such as Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, and more. Spruce Technology, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, pregnancy, race, creed, color, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, genetic information, religion, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The Vice President Finance will play a key role in our growing team, establishing a more robust financial planning processes, and contributing to a collaborative team culture. The VP of Finance will be responsible for managing all aspects of finance and accounting throughout this rapidly growing organization. The VP of Finance will serve as a member of the executive team supporting Operations and the CEO along with providing financial input to key members of the Board of Directors. Real time communication on the financial health of the company is critical to ensure adequate capitalization, scalable processes, and streamlined operations Please visit for additional information on our services. Business & Financial Strategy Financial Strategy: Develop the financial strategy to ensure effective capital structure and be held accountable for maintaining enough resources to achieve the roadmap set forth. Operational Strategy: Define Objective and Key Results with measurable and quantifiable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Models: Develop models across the organization building strategy through precise forecasting, creating benchmarks and accountability ultimately ensuring we are resourced to meet and exceed the needs of a changing business environment. Treasury Management: Cash management and banking relationships. Tax Planning: Manage tax strategy for optimization. Risk Management: Manage insurance and liability strategies. Risk-Insurance. Ensure proper coverage and balance of risk for the Company. Accounting Accounting: Lead all general ledger, payroll, internal auditing, AR/AP, collections, reporting, and budgetary and expense controls. Work closely with cost accounting personnel in maintaining accurate standards and the updating of these costs annually for the business plan. Systems: Establish systems suitable for a high growth company with established customers Audit: Work with the company's auditors to ensure compliance/completion of all financial statements. Financial Statements: Prepare all accounting and financial analyses of operations, including interim and final financial statements with supporting schedules, for the guidance of management. Business Metrics / Reporting: Ensure executives, directors, are continually aware of the company's current financial position relative to plan through reliable financial and operations statements, forecasts, and controls issued on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis. Team Leadership Leadership: Lead the accounting and finance team (internal and outsourced) while supporting other departments as a high-ranking executive. Work with and inspire a group of incredibly smart, mission-driven people by giving them the tools, mentorship, and motivation to innovate and make decisions that support the vision of the company. Culture: Shape and nurture a culture of mission-focus, openness, integrity, excellence, ingenuity, and passion. Qualifications Experience in the IT industry with CPA. Experience in commercial bank financing. Substantial hands-on experience with reporting systems Experience developing and implementing financial management and budget control systems. Experienced with deal structuring and contract negotiations. Conversant in U.S. GAAP accounting rules. Conversant in tax structures. Equity and debt capital raising experience. Experience developing dashboards and KPIs to track business success. - provided by Dice
Title: Technical Business Analyst Location: Baton Rouge, LA/ Remote Work Duration: 1 Year Spruce is an award-winning Information Technology firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Our mission is to be a leading provider of solutions and technology services, always keeping to our core value of integrity as we inspire and empower our creative and talented employees, do what's best for our clients in every engagement, and share our success by giving back to our communities. Responsibilities: Collaborates with the Product Owner, agile team and relevant subject matter experts to define high quality user stories with detailed acceptance criteria. This includes functional and non-functional requirements Performs and/or facilitates business and technical analysis in support of project design and implementation. Works with customer and quality assurance to identify needed test data and develop test cases that ensure expected functionality and features are validated before and during User Acceptance Testing. Perform GAP analysis to determine if business requirements are being met Performs special tasks as assigned. This includes such tasks as assisting with preparation of highly complex specialized reports, and serving on data conversion and Quality Assurance teams. Mandatory Skills: Experience with Business Analytics processes including creating requirements and design documents and facilitating project related meetings with business partners. Experience working as a Business Analyst in an Agile Environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) Familiarity with Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) Experience with FileNet or Electronic Data Management Systems Experience with User Acceptance Testing Experience managing Projects utilizing Software Development methodologies such as but not limited to: Waterfall, DevOps, Extreme Programming, Rapid Application Development, Agile Development, etc. "Spruce Technology, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, pregnancy, race, creed, color, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, genetic information, religion, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws." - provided by Dice
10/02/2020
Full time
Title: Technical Business Analyst Location: Baton Rouge, LA/ Remote Work Duration: 1 Year Spruce is an award-winning Information Technology firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Our mission is to be a leading provider of solutions and technology services, always keeping to our core value of integrity as we inspire and empower our creative and talented employees, do what's best for our clients in every engagement, and share our success by giving back to our communities. Responsibilities: Collaborates with the Product Owner, agile team and relevant subject matter experts to define high quality user stories with detailed acceptance criteria. This includes functional and non-functional requirements Performs and/or facilitates business and technical analysis in support of project design and implementation. Works with customer and quality assurance to identify needed test data and develop test cases that ensure expected functionality and features are validated before and during User Acceptance Testing. Perform GAP analysis to determine if business requirements are being met Performs special tasks as assigned. This includes such tasks as assisting with preparation of highly complex specialized reports, and serving on data conversion and Quality Assurance teams. Mandatory Skills: Experience with Business Analytics processes including creating requirements and design documents and facilitating project related meetings with business partners. Experience working as a Business Analyst in an Agile Environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) Familiarity with Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) Experience with FileNet or Electronic Data Management Systems Experience with User Acceptance Testing Experience managing Projects utilizing Software Development methodologies such as but not limited to: Waterfall, DevOps, Extreme Programming, Rapid Application Development, Agile Development, etc. "Spruce Technology, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, pregnancy, race, creed, color, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, genetic information, religion, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws." - provided by Dice
I hope you're doing well. I wanted to reach out to you and see if you have suitable candidates for Senior Selenium Automation Engineer opportunity with one of our client in Brooklyn, NY Please find the below JD Job Title: Senior Selenium Automation Engineer Duration: 3 yrs Location: Brooklyn, NY MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Minimum of 8 years of QA experience with at least 2 years of recent experience as a Senior QA Test Automation Engineer Proficiency in analyzing business and functional documents. Experience setting up test automation framework using Selenium, working with test automation tools and writing scripts for test automation tools (Knowledge of Java, Java Script and Python is a plus). Experience with Load and Performance Testing Experience with API and Web Services testing. Experience in STLC and Defect Life Cycle. Candidate will be required to prepare effort estimation and conduct all aspects of testing. Proven ability to simulate and execute integrated and isolated tests to analyze results, leveraging CRUD operations on large volumes of raw data using SQL. Experience identifying and defining project scope, understand technical specifications and setup test environment, set clear goals and expectations, manage multiple priorities, prioritize activities, maintain multiple priorities, facilitate the collection of technical, operational or business requirements, set milestones and follow through to successful completion. Experience working in various SDLC processes including Agile. Experience supervising a team, reporting status to higher management, creating defect reports with resolutions. Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation, problem resolution and customer service. Expertise with MS-Office specifically Microsoft Word, Project, Excel, Visio & PowerPoint. Strong documentation and communication skills. DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE: Experience testing complex enterprise applications involving Legacy systems. Experience in legacy system migration projects. Experience with Workflow systems, preferably with IBM Filenet. Experience in Public Pension Systems. Experience with CRM systems like Salesforce, MS Dynamics. Experience with JIRA, Sharepoint, GitHub Certification as Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), or Certified Associate in Software Quality (CASQ) or ISTQB certified as CTFL (Foundation Level) or CTAL (Advanced Level) or CTEL (Expert Level). - provided by Dice
10/01/2020
Full time
I hope you're doing well. I wanted to reach out to you and see if you have suitable candidates for Senior Selenium Automation Engineer opportunity with one of our client in Brooklyn, NY Please find the below JD Job Title: Senior Selenium Automation Engineer Duration: 3 yrs Location: Brooklyn, NY MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Minimum of 8 years of QA experience with at least 2 years of recent experience as a Senior QA Test Automation Engineer Proficiency in analyzing business and functional documents. Experience setting up test automation framework using Selenium, working with test automation tools and writing scripts for test automation tools (Knowledge of Java, Java Script and Python is a plus). Experience with Load and Performance Testing Experience with API and Web Services testing. Experience in STLC and Defect Life Cycle. Candidate will be required to prepare effort estimation and conduct all aspects of testing. Proven ability to simulate and execute integrated and isolated tests to analyze results, leveraging CRUD operations on large volumes of raw data using SQL. Experience identifying and defining project scope, understand technical specifications and setup test environment, set clear goals and expectations, manage multiple priorities, prioritize activities, maintain multiple priorities, facilitate the collection of technical, operational or business requirements, set milestones and follow through to successful completion. Experience working in various SDLC processes including Agile. Experience supervising a team, reporting status to higher management, creating defect reports with resolutions. Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation, problem resolution and customer service. Expertise with MS-Office specifically Microsoft Word, Project, Excel, Visio & PowerPoint. Strong documentation and communication skills. DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE: Experience testing complex enterprise applications involving Legacy systems. Experience in legacy system migration projects. Experience with Workflow systems, preferably with IBM Filenet. Experience in Public Pension Systems. Experience with CRM systems like Salesforce, MS Dynamics. Experience with JIRA, Sharepoint, GitHub Certification as Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), or Certified Associate in Software Quality (CASQ) or ISTQB certified as CTFL (Foundation Level) or CTAL (Advanced Level) or CTEL (Expert Level). - provided by Dice
Title : Utility Operations Business Analyst Location : White Plains, NY 10601 Duration:12+ months Spruce Technology is a mid-size and rapidly-growing Information Technology services firm headquartered in New Jersey. An award-winning firm (Inc 5000, SmartCEO) with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients, Spruce Technology provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. If your interested please reply me to my email id : or call me at : Job Functions & Responsibilities The Utility Operations BA will play a key role gathering functional and technical requirements, conducting data mapping, preparing test plans and scripts, executing testing, assisting with completion of Disaster Recovery and Technology Impact documents, assisting with stakeholder communications and change management. For this assignment, the BA will, at a minimum: • Create Functional Requirements • Create business Process flow documents and Business process documents • Create Technical Requirements document • Create Requirements Traceability Matrix • Create data mapping documents and Technical Interface specification for electronic files (e-files) • Create test strategy, scenarios and scripts • Assist team in developing application support RACI and support handover documents. • Assist team with stakeholder communications • Assist team with completion of provided Business Impact Assessment and Technology Impact Assessment forms • Weekly status reports. Meeting agendas, materials, and minutes for weekly meetings. Skills • Knowledge and experience in the Utility industry, especially in Asset Management and Operational data. Extensive experience in developing detailed requirements - functional and technical. • Knowledge of proper requirements specification and development, such as process/functional requirements definition methods, JAD/RAD sessions, use case development, process flow diagrams • Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and interpersonal skills. • Excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. • A deep understanding of technical concepts, principles and terminology. • Knowledge of data science concepts and experience gathering data requirements. • Ability to work in a team environment with both employees and consultants is a must. • Ability to communicate effectively across many different levels of technical and business teams. • Ability to engage diplomatically with stakeholders • Demonstrated experience with Agile and hybrid project methodologies. • Superior presentation and negotiation skills. • Proven management and organizational skills. • Strong adaptability and capacity to work in fast-paced environments. • Experience with IBM Maximo, OSI PI, GE APM a plus • Utilities experience is highly preferred. Governmental experience is a plus. Education & Certifications • BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited school, or equivalent. • 5+ years of applicable experience, preferably in the area of Business Analysis for IT projects including cloud computing and data integration. • Any of the following BA certifications is a plus: o IIBA Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA) o IIBA Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) o IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) o IIBA Agile Analysis Certification (AAC) o IQBBA Certified Foundation Level Business Analyst (CFLBA) o IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) o PMI-Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) Certification • Certifications in Agile, DevOps a plus. - provided by Dice
10/01/2020
Full time
Title : Utility Operations Business Analyst Location : White Plains, NY 10601 Duration:12+ months Spruce Technology is a mid-size and rapidly-growing Information Technology services firm headquartered in New Jersey. An award-winning firm (Inc 5000, SmartCEO) with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients, Spruce Technology provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. If your interested please reply me to my email id : or call me at : Job Functions & Responsibilities The Utility Operations BA will play a key role gathering functional and technical requirements, conducting data mapping, preparing test plans and scripts, executing testing, assisting with completion of Disaster Recovery and Technology Impact documents, assisting with stakeholder communications and change management. For this assignment, the BA will, at a minimum: • Create Functional Requirements • Create business Process flow documents and Business process documents • Create Technical Requirements document • Create Requirements Traceability Matrix • Create data mapping documents and Technical Interface specification for electronic files (e-files) • Create test strategy, scenarios and scripts • Assist team in developing application support RACI and support handover documents. • Assist team with stakeholder communications • Assist team with completion of provided Business Impact Assessment and Technology Impact Assessment forms • Weekly status reports. Meeting agendas, materials, and minutes for weekly meetings. Skills • Knowledge and experience in the Utility industry, especially in Asset Management and Operational data. Extensive experience in developing detailed requirements - functional and technical. • Knowledge of proper requirements specification and development, such as process/functional requirements definition methods, JAD/RAD sessions, use case development, process flow diagrams • Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and interpersonal skills. • Excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. • A deep understanding of technical concepts, principles and terminology. • Knowledge of data science concepts and experience gathering data requirements. • Ability to work in a team environment with both employees and consultants is a must. • Ability to communicate effectively across many different levels of technical and business teams. • Ability to engage diplomatically with stakeholders • Demonstrated experience with Agile and hybrid project methodologies. • Superior presentation and negotiation skills. • Proven management and organizational skills. • Strong adaptability and capacity to work in fast-paced environments. • Experience with IBM Maximo, OSI PI, GE APM a plus • Utilities experience is highly preferred. Governmental experience is a plus. Education & Certifications • BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited school, or equivalent. • 5+ years of applicable experience, preferably in the area of Business Analysis for IT projects including cloud computing and data integration. • Any of the following BA certifications is a plus: o IIBA Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA) o IIBA Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) o IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) o IIBA Agile Analysis Certification (AAC) o IQBBA Certified Foundation Level Business Analyst (CFLBA) o IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) o PMI-Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) Certification • Certifications in Agile, DevOps a plus. - provided by Dice