Our client is one of the leading providers of management consulting and professional services worldwide.  The management consultants create, design and build new business models and help clients integrate and operate them. 

Join the Finance & Performance Management team and you will play a central role in developing innovative business solutions that help the Chief Financial Officers clients improve operational effectiveness and transform their finance function into a world class organization. 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Directly supervise or coordinate the work of others on a small/medium sized team
• Organize and facilitate Shared Services process workshops to solicit business and process requirements
• Prioritize and oversee activities of others to meet deadlines and quality standards
• Develop detailed work plans, direct project teams, deliver status, and manage to budget
• Coach junior team members and foster an active learning environment.  Provide advice on procedures/work methods to colleagues
• Exhibit working knowledge of familiar shared services functional areas by calling on previous job experience and training, and practical insight into unfamiliar functional areas
• Be a self-motivated, enthusiastic team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills, well-versed in finance and accounting terms, latest industry trends, and applicable external factors
• Participate in shared services business development activities
• Provide leading practice finance and accounting transaction  processing analysis and design knowledge
• Develop governance and services management framework
• Understand Regulatory Compliance including Sarbanes-Oxley, IFS, Basel II
• Guide team through problem definition, issue identification and work plan development using problem solving principles and past experience
• Ability to meet travel requirements, 80 to 100%

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree 
• 8+ years of experience in Finance and accounting back-office operations, i.e., accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, asset management, management reporting, budgeting and forecasting, etc.
• 5+ year experience around moving decentralized finance and accounting operations to shared services
• 2+ years Design, development and implementation of at least 2 complete life cycle finance and accounting shared services centers in the role of team lead over one or more of the work streams, or as a hands-on project manager
• 4+ years working within an ERP environment
• Minimum of 2 years of managing financial process projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA, CFA, CA, MBA, CMA or experience as an accountant
• Direct experience in creating business change using ERP Financials
• ERP Financials configuration, conversion or detailed process design