Business Consulting Manager – Finance
Job Description
Your key responsibilities:
As a member of the Business Consulting team, you'll help the world's leading organizations improve their performance in a rapidly changing environment with adequate enablement of finance transformation and technologies. You'll be part of multidisciplinary teams, bringing diverse perspectives to every challenge. You will also take the lead in developing and growing our business and client network, building relationships with our clients' key stakeholders, and contributing to the overall revenue generation efforts of the consulting wide organization.
Skills and Attributes for success:
You should have Consulting experience in Finance Transformation, within the Financial Services domain/industry:
- Increase how finance works cross functionally as part of an extended ecosystem to enable new business models and value creation
- Improve data and analytics capabilities to transform forecasting, risk management, and understanding of value drivers
- Take strategic decisions on what will be sourced, recruited, retained, and/or developed/upskilled to transform finance talent into a sustainable workforce
- Make significant changes to the finance function operating model and skill set utilizing a best-in-class model of internal and partner resources/ assets
- Reduce finance function costs through new technologies, and automation
- Optimize usage of Global Business Services (GBS) infrastructure, outsourcing, and SSC's
- Process optimization across Procure-To-Pay (PTP), Order-To-Cash (OTC), and Record-To-Report (RTR)
- Leverage Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) to budget for and plan using appropriate technology
- Digital Finance
Requirements
To qualify for the role, you must have
- 8-10 years of relevant working experience
- Experience in Big4 or any other Global consulting firm experience as a consultant
- MENA based experience (preferred)
- Strong People Management and Leadership Skills
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Ability to generate business deals and make business proposals
- Develop and maintain relationship at C-suite level
Ideally, you'll also have
- A Master's Degree and/or CIMA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA professional qualifications
- Willingness to travel extensively across the region