Senior Manager - Finance Transformation - Sydney. - Sydney, Australia

An excellent opportunity to join a well known consulting firms, with this position being based in Australia.

The Finance Transformation service line focuses on the following areas of operational and process improvement:

• Finance Strategy and Transformation Planning
• Finance Transformation Change Management • Finance Organisational Design and Development
• Finance Process Excellence / Lean
• Shared Services Strategy to Execution
• BPO Advisory
• Finance Systems Selection
• Business Performance Management, Reporting & Analytics

Responsibilities:

This is a unique opportunity for a dynamic, motivated, people focused Consultant to join the growing team and play a key role in building and scaling the CFO Services operation.

• Managing the successful delivery of complex client engagements
• Leading by example, developing expert knowledge of your client’s business and building trust and long term client relationships
• Taking responsibility for commercial management on projects and engagements by managing budgets, pricing structures and financials
• Facilitating complex workshops, planning and shaping work of others in the team
• Taking responsibility for teams of consulting and client staff on engagements, setting objectives and performance management
• Taking responsibility for career development, morale and guidance of our Analysts and Consultants
• Some responsibility for revenue generation
• Developing opportunities for future work with clients, and growing client accounts
• Playing an important role in the company development and the CFO Services offering
• Developing thought leadership in the CFO Services area
• Building Finance capability within the current team through coaching and support

Requirements:

• Significant experience in a Consulting environment, leading and delivering a range of Management Consulting engagements in the CFO space
• Credibility with senior level clients, experience in managing senior relationships and delivering lasting change
• Extensive experience in a number of core Management Consulting capabilities within Finance, eg; Finance Organisational Design and Operating Model Development, Finance Transformation Change Management, Finance Process Excellence / Lean, Shared Services Strategy to Execution, BPO Advisory, Finance Systems Selection, Business Performance Management, Reporting & Analytics
• Strong commercial awareness and experience contributing to the business development process; contributing to developing bids and proposals, negotiating commercial arrangements with clients
• Breadth and depth of knowledge and experience in key industry sectors
• Excellent interpersonal skills in influencing, persuasion, motivating and mentoring others
• Experience managing the performance of others

NB: Optume consulting are acting as recruitment agents for this opportunity.