Consulting Director driving strategy in finance and innovation at Clearsulting. Building client relationships and mentoring teams while delivering high-quality consulting outcomes.
Responsibilities
Define and drive the practice's strategic direction, aligning services with client needs and market trends.
Build and maintain strong relationships with senior executives, acting as a trusted advisor to address complex business challenges.
Lead and oversee client engagements, ensuring the delivery of high-quality outcomes within scope, timeline, and budget including assessments, finance transformations, vendor selection, process improvement, finance & accounting operating model modernization, and technology implementations.
Identify and pursue new business opportunities, prepare proposals, and lead pitches to secure consulting engagements.
Mentor and develop consulting teams, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Provide insights and guidance on industry best practices, emerging trends, and innovative solutions to enhance client value.
Optimize internal processes, tools, and methodologies to improve service delivery and team productivity.
Help finance transformation and accounting executives solve complex business problems from strategy through execution focused on developing finance functional strategies, improving business performance and implementing new processes and technologies.
Develop executive-level presentations to communicate complex issues and recommendations across processes, systems, and people
Requirements
Bachelor's or Master's degree in a business-related field of study
10+ years of finance management consulting experience in finance strategy and transformation, operating model design and shared services, process improvement, program management, and/or technology implementations.
5+ years of people management experience
Functional finance and accounting expertise including thought leadership on industry trends and leading practices
Willingness to continually take on challenging projects with new or ambiguous subject matter
Strong project management experience, including: workplan creation and updates, milestone tracking, risk management, status updates, change management, and communicating with clients.
Commercial acumen to generate and close opportunities in net new logo and existing account sales cycles.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; clearly convey complex business concepts to executive audience free of grammatical errors, incorporating leading practices for business writing
Strong leadership skills and executive presence.
Foundational skillets in data and analytics technologies (i.e., Alteryx, Savant Labs, PowerBi, Tableau, Qlik, Python, VBA, SQL, Access, etc.)
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