1st Line Technical Support Analyst (Customer Support Consultant)

Deliver feel good CX to customers

When was the last time you had an incredible customer experience? The kind that makes you want to tell anyone who’ll listen as you jump up and down with excitement and passion.

As a 1st line Customer Support Analyst, you'll be on the forefront of delivering great experiences. Helping to ensure our customers feel good about using our Business Planning and Analytics software. With a global retention rate of 97%, we aim to impress customers with an experience so good they become raving fans of Phocas and our team. And is there anything better than knowing your work has brought joy to a customer’s life?

Does that sound like the kind of role you could see yourself enjoying? Are you looking for a company who will encourage you to learn and grow? Read on to find out more about Phocas and the position!

Our software is MS SQL server based, we use our own mapping DB creation software and various techniques to create extraction and staging layers, and our help desk software is Jira (Atlassian).

What you’ll need to help customers become digitally fluent:

• Commitment to resolving issues for customers; demonstrated experience dealing with support cases or requests
• Minimum 2 year experience working in a similar environment, dealing with support cases / product support or complex customer requests via email, telephone and in person
• Knowledge of Contact Management systems, Database software, Internet software and Word Processing software
• Proficient in Microsoft applications
• Strong communication skills - As well as our wonderful customers you will be willing to work closely with our USA and Australian colleagues
• Knowledge of basic SQL, data point integration, database design or data analytics
• A passion and drive to develop a career in a Software support environment
• Experience of working remotely for a global organization is preferred
• Financial / Accounting or ERP knowledge would be a bonus!

What you’ll do to create a seamless experience:

• Deliver exceptional customer service and support to resolve issues relating to Phocas products and/or their conversion (using remote online tools such as TeamViewer, VPN, RDP, etc), to Best Practice standards
• Quickly diagnose O/S and application issues and implement corrective actions and end-user training (Send more complex problems through to the appropriate team/consultants)
• Triage and process the support case queue to ensure we respond and communicate in a timely manner against SLA’s. This can be via Phone (Teams) and Email/Jira as required
• Take ownership of support cases and perform detailed troubleshooting, provide workaround resolutions, root cause analysis and major incident management
• Perform detailed validation of customer ETL process and data when required to confirm/diagnose customer support issues
• Document processes and procedures and update knowledge database
• Use Jira and HubSpot for maintaining project information and contact details, to document, track, monitor, and report support cases
• Advocate for the end user; ensure they receive top quality, timely service and support

• Learn every day and have fun!

Starting Base Range: $55,000/yr - $60,000/yr

Did we mention we also have exceptional employee benefits?! Think... private healthcare (medical, dental, vision), retirement plan (401k), Paid Time Off (vacation, sick & public holidays), group life assurance, 30 day work anywhere policy, Public holiday swap, enhanced parental leave, work life balance & wellness benefits.... and SO much more!

A bit about us in the hope we’re the UX to your CX (it sounded better in our head)

We’re a business planning and analytics company that designs software for people who aren’t super techy. We’ve been hard at it for over 20 years moving from start-up to scale up. And helped thousands of companies turn complex business data into performance boosting results. Despite our global status of 300 world-class humans, we’ve held on to our start-up roots. The result is a workplace that’s fast, exciting and designed for fun and performance.

Phocas invests in it's people and culture to create an environment that is collaborative, fun and fulfilling. Working at Phocas you can expect to be pushed by your peers, challenged every day and have a lot of enjoyment in the process. We work hard, have heaps of enthusiasm, love to learn and are an incredibly close-knit, global team.

Sounds good, right?!

If you are driven to make an impact, have high energy and a deeply care about providing first class customer service and have a passion & genuine interest for technology then go ahead, apply today!

Create your happy place.

Phocas is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.