Vice President F&A Solution Lead

Solutioning & Deal Support

• Own the design of end-to-end F&A solutions across the full process scope.


• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of solution architects and domain specialists.


• Lead solution architecture for large and complex pursuits, including deal shaping, response strategy, and defense in orals.


• Translate client requirements into target operating models covering process design, delivery footprint, technology, automation, pricing, and transition approach.


• Build reusable assets, accelerators, and knowledge frameworks to scale the solutioning function.


• Build robust business cases and value propositions, quantifying baseline, savings, ROI, and transformation benefits.


• Partner with pricing and commercial teams to structure competitive, profitable, and risk-balanced deals.

F&A Domain Leadership

• Bring deep expertise across the complete F&A scope, including Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and Statutory/Regulatory reporting.


• Define best-in-class process frameworks, benchmarks, and maturity models for F&A operations.


• Drive digital and intelligent automation strategies (RPA, AI/ML, analytics, workflow, ERP enablement) into solution designs.

Client Engagement & Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders (CFO and their finance leadership team).


• Lead client workshops, due diligence, and discovery to uncover pain points and shape the solution roadmap.


• Present solutions and transformation narratives to C-suite audiences.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 15–18 years of overall professional experience in Finance & Accounting, business process management, shared services, or outsourcing/consulting environments.


• 10–12 years of dedicated experience in F&A solutioning, including large and complex deal pursuits.


• Demonstrated experience across the complete scope of F&A.


• Proven track record of designing and winning multi-million-dollar F&A outsourcing/transformation deals.


• Strong command of operating model design, transition methodology, pricing constructs, and commercial modeling.


• Experience embedding digital levers (automation, analytics, AI/ML, ERP platforms) into solution designs.

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic and structured problem-solving with a strong commercial orientation.


• Executive presence and the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders.


• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.


• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration.


• Ability to operate under pressure across concurrent pursuits and tight timelines.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Business, or a related field (required).


• CA / CPA / CMA / MBA (Finance) or equivalent professional qualification (strongly preferred).

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Procurement (e.g., source-to-pay, category management, supplier management) solutioning or delivery experience is an added benefit.


• Prior experience in a Big 4, global BPM/BPO, or management consulting environment.


• Exposure to specific industry verticals (e.g., BFSI, Energy and Utilities, Retail, Travel Transportation and Logistics Manufacturing).


• Willingness to travel for client engagements and pursuits.