The F&A Managing Consultant is part of the North America Cognitive Business Operations Practice and reports to the North America F&A and SCM Practice Leader. This role will work collaboratively with the practice head and across the CBO practice to help drive and meet our business goals.
Responsibilities:
- Research market and industry trends and develop point of view documents and white papers
- Support and help drive the advisor relationship development program as well as the marketing and conference participate program
- Support and own aspects of writing of the solution proposals, value propositions and presentations for senior level client stakeholders
- Support scope definition and alignment to the win strategy themes in conjunction with sales and client leads.
- Support and own aspects of client discovery sessions, yellow pads workshops, and oral presentations
- Develop cost, benchmarking and business case analyses
- Help evolve solutions, service delivery models and other aspects of CBO offerings
- Become conversant in relevant technologies and help evolve our demonstration and client selling sessions
- Help drive the upgrade of sales collateral and presentations with standard content and scripts
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Excellent client facing skills, e.g., the ability to clearly articulate the value and rationale of the proposed solution in written, presentation and oral formats
- Consulting, Shared Services, and / or Business Process Outsourcing experience at a Manager level (or above) in the Finance arena with a focus on Transformation, with demonstrable improvements in process or operating model redesign, and / or automation
- Ability to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues
- Capability to develop solutions within a complex and demanding environment
- Able to challenge the existing solutions and value propositions and drive the evolution of our offerings to digitally enabled BPO services
- At least 10 years of experience in solutioning, consulting or delivery of outsourcing engagements, finance improvements and / or automation projects
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Strong technical skills with Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Experience in some aspect of RPA, Visualization and / or analytics preferred
- Experience in Big 4, Business Process Outsourcing, Shared Services or finance operations