Senior Internal Control & Business Transformation Consultant

Job Family:

Finance & Accounting Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

Our professionals help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission. We help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency of operations, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations.

The nature of our projects can be fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals. Project team members are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients’ senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development.

This role will support a Government agency within the homeland security enterprise with opportunities to expand your support to other national security-related organizations. Specific initiatives and work products that this role supports include:

Responsibilities include:

• Transforming Financial Management (FM) processes with analytics & automation using emerging technologies: Design, build, and support data visualization (e.g., PowerBI/Tableau), low/no-code solutions (e.g., SharePoint/Power Platform), and/or AI/ML solutions (e.g., Databricks/Python) to modernize financial workflows and drive data-driven decisions for finance, accounting, budget, or risk management offices.

• Identifying and delivering process improvements end-to end: Assess current-state processes, synthesize findings, recommend future-state solutions, and implement technical changes that optimize operations and reduce maintenance.

• Production support & continuous improvement: Perform maintenance on solutions; analyze root causes on issues that arise/maintenance issues; implement change requests to prevent recurrence.

• Risk, controls, and standards integration: Embed FM standards and federal policy requirements (audit readiness, operational integrity) into solution design in partnership with senior stakeholders.

• Communication & stakeholder engagement: Create trainings, user guides, SOPs; develop memos, briefings, and presentations; present solutions for iterative feedback to executives and process owners.

• Project planning & updates: Build realistic plans and provide regular task/status updates to senior clients to confirm shared understanding.

• Collaboration & teamwork: Supporting transformative initiatives by collaborating with team members to partner with senior stakeholders to modernize financial processes through innovative solutions. Participating within a team environment, be a creative problem solver, maintain a positive attitude, and proactively communicate.

More broadly, this team member will be engaged in a diverse set of project-specific tasks covering a broad set of consulting capabilities, including:

• Applying a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques

• Documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements

• Producing a variety of communications from informal email interactions with clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others

• Conducting research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with your team to formulate and recommend solutions

• Assisting clients in analyzing projects and programs to identify risks and help develop, apply, and monitor mitigations

• Supporting clients in collecting and analyzing data, producing models and visualizations, and draw conclusions from the data to improve decision-making

• Analyzing and help develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs

In addition to client-facing responsibilities, this role will support important activities that contribute to the growth of our business, strengthen internal Guidehouse operations, and create a positive work environment for all Guidehouse employees. Some of these activities include but are not limited to:

• Assisting in business development activities, such as identifying potential client needs and ways Guidehouse can assist, developing proposals and white papers, participating in client and internal account meetings, and more