Position: Asset Management Consultant
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for Software Asset Management process; Evaluates the accuracy of SQL asset information in the SNOW tool; Assists auditors in the review of Asset Management compliance; Enforces Asset Management policies; Ensures interfaces take place with other ITSM processes, internal functions, and external suppliers.
• Implements and builds controls for SQL software inventory, ultimately linking licensing, usage, locations, and documentation for all software products
• Provides the correct applications to the specified users at optimal intervals to obtain the best value and to eliminate unnecessary software products
• Utilizes available resources to solve problems, aware that SAM issues interrelate and impact important business objectives
• Builds and nurtures productive relationships with all other business units, both those that interact with the IT business functions and those that are customers
• Coordinate the database requirement with the service owners
• Raise CRs for any uninstallations based on the feedback
• Help us with further optimization methods for SQL and convince our tech teams to take the optimization approach
• Look into our process and provide any process enhancement related to SQL based on the data volume
• Help us in coordinating with the vendors for any SQL license benefits
• Ensure the below Software Asset Management tasks are getting done:
o Planning, acquisition, deployment, monitoring, harvesting and retirement of software assets.
o Develop SAM policies, workflows, processes, and procedures.
o Creating and updating software information into SNOW.
o Involved in the calculating of software license compliance based on software license right-to-use (RTU), software license agreements, maintenance agreements and software installations.
o Validate requirements to create or modify IT software asset records and associated contract records in appropriate software repository (SNOW).
o All changes to vendor agreements are accurately reflected in SAM as confirmed with License Contract holders.
o Provide expertise in ensuring that software license contracts and agreements, software licenses and software installations and associated linkages are reflected correctly in the ITAM / Software Asset Management platform repository.
o Provide expertise to ensure that software license records are linked to the correct hardware device.
o Create and update software counters for software titles and licenses. Research, upgrade and downgrade parameters that impact client Right to Use (RTU) when creating or modifying software title counters.
o Provides monthly and quarterly software license compliance status reports to Sr. Management.
o Review software compliance measures based on existing licensing agreements.
o Understand current utilization and installation of licenses based on RTU focus.
o Work with Software vendors to renew and true up existing licensing contracts.
o Provide analysis of Asset Data information for compliance and risk purposes as well as trends, contracts, and cost.
o Adherence to ITSM Tasks completion assigned to the Software Asset Management Team
o Adherence to the Harvesting and Write-Off Process
o Ensure the IT Asset Inventory (Software) statistics are delivered within agreed timelines.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• Experience with Asset Management
• Minimum 10 yrs. of total experience, 5+ yrs. of experience in Software Asset Management, 2+ yrs. of experience in Project Management.
• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, and Information Systems or equivalent experience, Master's preferred.
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Strong experience in Software asset management related international standards (e.g., ISO 19770, ISO20000/ITIL); SAM certification preferred (e.g., IAITAM Certified Software Asset Manager).
• Experience with license management and optimization tools, software discovery tools (e.g., SNOW or MS SCCM or LANDesk) and IT asset inventory systems

Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Ability to work under pressure and turn things around on a short time frame
• Ability to visualize solutions for complex problems on paper and in presentations
• Strong delegation and proven project management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal and influencing skills; ability to define and capture business needs along with articulating strategic implications of analytic results with clarity and persuasiveness in an audience appropriate manner.
• Strong leadership skills so as to be able to push changes forward, manage potential conflicts
• Good in interpersonal relationships and able to gain the trust of main interaction points and respect of IT organization in order to drive IT strategy
• Innovative character, with future-oriented and imaginative vision and willingness to experiment and push things to the next level
• Dynamism and charisma to push the organization to innovate and incentivize teams assigned to innovation tasks and projects

Languages:
English: C1 Advanced