US Consulting - Finance Transformation - Oil & Gas Sector - Senior Manager

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​Our objective is to provide clients with a unique business perspective on how to transform the finance function - reducing cost base, increasing efficiency and quality of information, and improving decision-making through the following core areas: finance operating model design; business performance management and reporting, shared services design and implementation; finance process improvement, finance system implementation and outsourcing consulting.  We've shaped a global ecosystem of CFOs, controllers and other accounting and finance executives to help our clients enhance the value they are adding to their enterprise. 

 

The opportunity

As part of our Finance Transformation team, you will gain cross-industry experience working with senior leadership teams in domestic and large multi-national companies.  

You will combine your finance capability with program and change management expertise to implement and embed improvements and deliver sustainable value.  

 

Your key responsibilities

Your role as a Senior Manager will focus on Leading and delivering of client engagements, interacting at an executive level, as well as sales and practice development activities. In this role, you will develop high- performing people and teams, leading and supporting them to make an impact that matters, and setting the direction to deliver exceptional client service.

You will work to sell, deliver and manage finance transformation projects in one or more of the following areas:

• Finance strategy development
• Finance operating model design
• Finance processes improvement
• Shared services and global business services design and implementation
• Outsourcing consulting (including managed services)
• Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
• Finance systems and applications (e.g., SAP, Blackline), process mining, robotics, and intelligent automation
• Financial close, consolidation and reporting
• Cost management and profitability analysis
• Order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and record-to-report processes

Core responsibilities will also include coaching and mentoring, performance appraisal and business development. 

 

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially around breaking down complex structures into digestible and relevant points for a diverse set of clients and colleagues, at all levels.
• By drawing on your knowledge and experience, you'll sell and lead consulting engagements that solve complex issues, provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs and contribute to thought leadership. You'll actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. 
• Successfully manage engagement time and budgets
• In line with our commitment to quality, you'll consistently drive projects to completion, manage risk and ensure that work is of high quality.
• As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel team members and help them to develop.
• Build relationships with client executives
• Be able to manage a virtual workforce across multiple time-zones as well as offshore teammates 

 

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's degree and approximately 8 years of related work experience; or a master's degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience
• Approximately 8 years of experience in providing consulting services in the finance function focused in at least one of the following areas: finance operating model design, performance management, shared services design and implementations, outsourcing consulting
• Experience in managing large-scale Finance Transformation and/or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations preferred

or

• Oil & Gas Industry experience with robust finance operations expertise
• Experience leading teams, managing engagement economics and business development
• Willingness to travel to meet client obligations 

 

Ideally, you'll also have

• An advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Operations or superior academic achievement