Senior Associate - Strategy -Enterprise & Functional Strategy Hyderabad

Competency Overview: Strategy – Finance Function Strategy (FFS) 

Core service offerings commonly supported by the Finance Function Strategy team include: 

• Digital Strategy & Value Transformation (including AI-first Finance use cases and value realization) 

• CFO Visioning and shaping CFO Agenda (helping CFOs reimagine and position Finance as a driver of growth, resilience, and enterprise value) 

• Operating Model & Service Delivery Strategy (Finance operating model design, service delivery/GBS alignment, scalable delivery) 

• Business Partnering & Cost Management (analytics-led business partnering, performance management, cost optimization) 

• Capital Markets & Deals (supporting Finance to safeguard deal value through operating model, performance, and controls alignment across M&A planning and execution) 

Key Responsibilities: 

Job responsibilities include activities centered around client business challenges and opportunities, e.g., conduct analyses and develop insights, analyze large sets of data, work directly with project teams, facilitate meetings to enable decision making, lead analysis and client conversations, organize and prepare recommendations to address client problems, and participate actively in new business development, thought leadership and firm building activities.  

Depending on the project, you will be involved throughout the project life cycle, adding value during the problem structuring and analysis phases. Responsibilities include understanding client’s capabilities, business context, assessing current organization structure and operating model, conducting end-to-end value chain diagnostics to unlock levers that can produce sustained performance improvement. Additionally, the role involves designing a future state structure, incorporating innovative solutions and emerging technologies, and enabling change management to ensure seamless integration and adoption of new processes.  

Candidates should demonstrate substantial experience and / or knowledge in any sector across the following areas:  

• Drive Digital & AI-first Finance Strategic transformation initiatives, including use case prioritization, value realization frameworks, and automation roadmaps 

• Develop AI Strategy in Finance Function and build AI Operating Models specific to the Finance Function for clients 

• Support CFO agenda shaping through industry and company research, including finance trends, operating model patterns, and risk/regulatory considerations relevant to the client’s sector 

• Build Finance function strategies across one or more areas such as digital/AI-first Finance, operating model and service delivery, location strategy, cost and performance management, and finance business partnering 

• Gather and interpret business requirements to craft insights and strategies, aligning initiatives with overarching business goals and client success metrics 

• Analyze Finance’s current-state performance (process, organization, governance, technology, service delivery footprint) to identify improvement opportunities and value levers 

• Recommend relevant solutions to support the reimagining of Finance processes, targeting greater business performance and agility 

• Develop diagnostics, analysis and business cases (e.g., value sizing, benefits tracking approach, KPI frameworks, productivity metrics, cost baseline) 

• Design future-state Finance operating models (roles, governance, service catalog, controls ownership, RACI, location strategy, GBS/shared services integration) and transformation roadmaps 

• Support digital strategy & value transformation by helping prioritize high-impact use cases, define requirements, and shape adoption/enablement plans (including analytics and automation opportunities) 

• Contribute to capital markets & deals by aligning Finance operating model, performance, and controls considerations across M&A planning and execution 

• Create client-ready deliverables (PowerPoint narratives, executive summaries, workplans) and facilitate working sessions to enable decision making