Senior Consultant/ Associate Manager - Finance Transformation

Company Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation consulting firm dedicated to creating state-of-the-art narratives for transformation and innovation and deploying them at scale. Our goal is to deliver superior value and tangible results to our clients as they navigate the digital revolution and achieve transformations which generate a positive impact. Our global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients' businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy, and Data Science.

Job Description

Position Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Consultant/Associate Manager to join our Digital & Tech Transformation team, with a focus on CFO services. This role is ideal for a professional with a strong background in finance transformation, digital strategy, and technology implementation. The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker capable of leading complex projects and fostering change within organizations.

Key Responsibilities:

Consulting Skills:

• Deliver client projects as part of an on-site or remote team, defining the framework and structure of deliverables and producing complex outputs.
• Manage work activities and timelines for both personal and team tasks, identifying priorities and workflows for stakeholders.
• Present complex ideas and critical points to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management.
• Conduct research and business analysis to solve customer challenges, presenting tailored solutions using quantitative and qualitative data.
• Promote teamwork and motivate consultants to improve, managing internal teams effectively.
• Demonstrate credibility with clients, challenging approaches and providing new directions to deepen relationships.
• Define project frameworks and manage multiple projects, ensuring follow-up and successful completion.
• Provide status reporting on progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health.
• Lead work streams of complex projects and take charge of simpler projects.
• Maintain program sites as repositories for all project information.

Business Expertise Skills:

• Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities across the firm.
• Maintain a deep understanding of business concepts, issues, and challenges, mastering business expertise.
• Cultivate knowledge related to specific business challenges or deepen understanding within a sector and function domain.
• Contribute to the development of new solutions in areas of expertise.
• Lead internal knowledge-sharing activities, ensuring knowledge transfer to other consultants.
• Design and implement business changes that drive transformation, functionality, and performance.
• Partner with clients to develop high-performance solutions that advance operational performance and industry standing.

Business Development Skills:

• Write business proposals and presentations autonomously.
• Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities.
• Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to managers, teams, and business unit leaders.

People Management Skills:

• Supervise project teams internally and on client assignments.
• Embody the firm's values

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university is required
• 4+ years of client facing management consulting experience managing or creating project deliverables and managing a delivery team
• Experience managing or creating project deliverables in a consulting environment, with broad experience in any of the following:
  • Financial Risk Management
  • Financial Planning & Analysis, Budgeting & Forecasting (experience in driver-based planning, zero-based budgeting, etc.)
  • Financial & Regulatory Reporting
  • Procurements (Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, etc.)
  • Model Risk
  • ERP / EPM Implementation
  • Regulatory Compliance (CCAR, BASEL, FRTB, etc.)
  • Treasury & Capital Management
  • Legal Entity Management
  • Expense & Profitability Management
  • Financial Controls, Processes and Procedures
• Experienced in delivery of a wide range of Financial Services solutions, maintains deep understanding of the industry and its challenges.
• You possess strong client relationship development and client management skills
• Excellent communication (written and oral) accompanied by strong interpersonal skills
• Solid organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to know when to escalate and when not to.
• Eagerness to be involved with internal initiatives and interest in guiding and leading.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting
• Flexibility in approach and a willingness to adapt quickly and take initiative when working in unstructured environments with limited supervision

Bonus points if you possess any of the following:

• Master's level degree from an accredited college/university or other additional certifications warmly welcomed
• Experience with ERP and EPM tools (NetSuite Anaplan, Kyriba, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP, etc.) will be advantageous but not mandatory
• Experience using Robotics Process Automation (RPA) tools (Automation Anywhere, Pegasystems, RedHat, BluePrism, UiPath, etc.)
• Experience using Power BI and preferably other visualization tools (Tableau, etc.) to enable dynamic dashboarding
• Experience and knowledge of Project Management principles and methodologies
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• A certification in one of the following strongly preferred: CPA, CFA, Finance Risk Manager (FRM), Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Series or other additional related certifications warmly welcomed

Additional Information

Sia is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.