Description
Key responsibilities:
- Review and deliver on day-to-day execution of projects / engagements to ensure successful delivery of client requirements; SSC experience is an additional advantage
- Owning the project planning, process management and communicating progress to clients and leadership; Driving development of content, either directly or by providing guidance to the team (provide ideas, frameworks, inputs etc.,)
- Manage project scope and maintain A&M pace of work; Deliver senior client presentation and good presentation skills; Draft and present reports for senior stakeholders
- Coaching / mentoring the team on work, delivery, upskilling, excel skills, report writing etc.,
- Strong execution support across various financial and operational systems:
- CRM tools (e.g. salesforce)
- Vendor management systems
- Financial systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP, Hyperion, FCCS, QuickBooks)
- Expense management systems (e.g. Zoho, SAP Concur, Happay)
- HRMS (e.g. Workday, success factors)
- Payroll systems (HGS, Ascent etc.,)
- Operational systems like time sheet management tools etc.,
- Any other tools, dashboards, platforms, systems that clients use for their operations or business purposes
- Strong program management skills across functions / departments and ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Supporting and contributing to other projects, for example, by sharing expertise or best practices; Contributing to improvising of methodologies, tools, products, techniques and developing new ideas and approaches
- Responsible for leading and independently managing CFO services kind of engagements:
- Finance transformation projects (PEPI / Corporate clients)
- Finance organizational design / service delivery model design
- Financial system strategy, roadmap and selection
- Digitally enabled finance & accounting
- Rapid cost reductions
- Taking control of finance function
- Draft JDs, hire key finance stakeholders, training and transitioning
- Finance performance improvements (PEPI / Corporate clients)
- Vision and strategy development
- Finance planning, reporting and analysis
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Working capital optimization
- Management reporting / MIS support
- Month-end close support
- Merger integration & carve-out services (PEPI / Corporate clients)
- Finance integration planning and execution support
- Synergy planning and capture
- Integration / carve-out assessments / due-diligence
- M&A performance improvement and play books
- Finance diagnostic / implementation projects
- Interact with leadership/ CXOs at clients during project delivery; Manage multiple stakeholders in client teams at all levels as well as within A&M; Ability to work seamlessly with multiple domestic / global teams (at client end as well as A&M)
- Actively drive business development and practice management initiatives.
Educational Qualification & Skills: MBA / PGDM with finance specialization from IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta or Indian School of Business or a CA topper in first attempt with 6 to 8 years of post-qualification experience.
Following Experiences Are Desirable
- CFO services team from strategy consulting firms
- Finance transformation / finance effectiveness experience from consulting firms
- Finance controllership, financial planning & analysis etc.,
- Post-merger finance integration exposure
- Program/ Project Management in large scale cross-functional projects
- Management consulting experience in any functional consulting area like Finance, MIS & MR etc.,
- Leading large-scale cross-functional transformation programs.
Must Haves –
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Outstanding in Excel and PowerPoint
- Team player with ability to work across large teams (internal and external).
