F&A Consulting Lead

This will be a leadership role responsible for creating new digital solutions using existing and new technologies to enable best in class transformation.

Will be responsible as consultant to work with cross functional teams and leading global clients driving and executing a range of activities from development and execution of solutions, best in class system and process designing, blueprinting, proof of concepts focusing on finance technology solutions.

In addition, support best practice implementation across accounts, perform maturity assessments, drive new solution development using Gen AI/ Agentic AI/RPA/ML/NLP/semantic search capabilities, assess and evaluate partner solution for further alliance, support transformation initiatives, support RFP/RFI response for new deals and create white papers

The role will also support Sales \ Solutions team and provide Subject matter expertise on pro-active and RFP opportunities and act as spoc for strategic partnerships with market leading external technology partners to enhance our solution strength and improve competitiveness of our offerings.

Responsibility:

• Participate in projects to solve business problem areas and create solutions to drive transformation. Demonstrated creative thinking to come up with art of the possible and build solutions using AI \ ML tech along with familiarity with visualization tools like PowerBI, SAP Analytics
• Contribute to various aspects of finance transformation journey using the digital footprint and assessment and evaluation of best fit solution to clients and bringing in design thinking to create world class solutions
• Engage and lead internal and external client conversations, leading design thinking workshops and presentations in key forums and management reviews
• Lead and manage the process maturity assessment , benchmarking excersise- people, process, technology and shaping up an implementation roadmap using methodology, tools, practices
• Lead transformation project identification and collaborate with Operations with respect to design and development of state-of-the-art tools, platforms & technologies supporting Operations clients in the F&A domain - AI/ML/RPA/cloud enabled applications and platforms with a primary focus on Procure To Pay (PTP), Record To Report (RTR), Order To Cash (OTC), and Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A).
• As part of the journey to Intelligent Finance, focus is to transform clients into intelligent platforms, ranging from bespoke tool implementations and deployments to standard integrated solutions and configurations. The role needs to innovate solutions to help F&A move away from a traditional bookkeeping and backward-looking function to a proactive mindset powered by intelligent insights to accelerate innovation, drive business outcomes, and reduce the cost of ownership
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and other cross functional team members (Developers, Functional Analysts, and Testers) to produce scalable, efficient, and supportable solutions utilizing inhouse and 3rd party/partner solutions
• Identify patterns and trends to form insights and provide actionable summaries using clear, insightful, and scalable visualizations
• Provide commercial insight and finance operational expertise, drive the simplification and standardization of systems and processes
• Work with the process architecture team and process owners to build and execute on a quarterly roadmap of projects, dashboards, digital automation, and enhancements

Skillset:

• This is a great role for someone who is keen on participating in enterprise-wide change programs and lead Global Transformation program, with ability to drive progress across matrix teams
• In depth understanding of the end-to-end F&A processes with exposure to two or more industry verticals (e.g., Manufacturing, Energy, Pharma, etc.). Experience in business finance functions like costing/pricing/inventory will be an advantage
• Must be a postgraduate in Finance - MBA/M Com/CA /CPA/
• 13+ years of work experience in relevant domain
• Good Consulting skills, multi-tasking, Strong Presentation Skills
• Pre-Sales & Delivery Exposure (end to end projects)
• Deep experience in all F&A domains, having functional and industry knowledge having worked in the capacity of business analyst, process consultant and project management roles. Any certification is desirable
• Experience in product management, product engineering and IT lifecycle from design, development to operations is highly desirable, along with Agile / Scrum way of working
• Experience in more strategic projects like operating model design, business cases, value architecting and realization is highly desirable
• Any experience with data analysis, data analytics, visualization tools is an advantage
• Any experience with digital programs and technologies is an advantage
• Exposure to building offering, assets, point of views is highly desirable
• Proficient in responding to BD, proposal, RFPs/RFI responses is highly desirable
• Exposure to international clients and onsite experience is highly desirable
• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Working knowledge of ERP applications like SAP, Oracle, etc. preferably having implementation experience; understanding of other tools and technology in the RTR/FP&A space would be an advantage.

Salary Range: $127,900 - $173,100 a year

#LI-MG2