By joining our rapidly growing Business Transformation practice (and working closely with our Private Equity practice) you will serve as a trusted partner to our premiere PE-backed clients. You’ll bring your first-hand experience, unique perspectives, and functional knowledge to deliver tailored integrated solutions that help our PE-backed clients solve today's challenges and drive value creation. As an Associate Director at CrossCountry Consulting, you will be responsible for a mix of client delivery, leading teams and developing junior team members, and participating in business development activities. If you enjoy business transformation and driving value creation in the fast-paced world of Private Equity, this is a unique opportunity to become part of our growing, collaborative, energetic and entrepreneurial team!
What You'll Do:
- Manage multi-faceted projects across the project lifecycle from current state evaluation, gap analysis, requirements gathering, future state design, and implementation across the organizational, process, technology (financial systems) and data dimensions; interacting directly with Portfolio Company CFOs and Controllers, Operating Partners, Portfolio Support teams, Deal Teams, and our Private Equity practice.
- Play a key role in identifying and assessing business obstacles within the Finance and Accounting functions, and delivering end-to-end transformation within the Office of CFO – strategy, process, organization design and structure, data and technology transformation
- Lead client engagements and facilitate workshops with client groups and key stakeholders to set strategic vision for the future, understand current gaps, and build roadmap of prioritized strategic initiatives to accelerate time to value.
- Execute engagements utilizing agile principles – scrums, sprints, kanban, etc.
- Assist portfolio companies with executing scalable ‘buy-and-build’ strategies by developing and implementing repeatable integration playbooks.
- Conduct thorough reviews of clients' current processes and defining future state processes
- Leverage knowledge of leading business processes (e.g., Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Financial Planning and Close, etc.). and the cross-functional dependency on the business and other functional teams (CIO) needed to implement leading practices and provide clients with insightful, value-add perspective on leading market practices
- Leverage knowledge of leading finance tools, automation, data & analytics and edge solutions to address client needs.
- Support various Business Transformation projects that could encompass system strategy and selection, process improvement, operations performance enhancement, change management, program and project management, data analytics, and business analysis
- Create thought leadership on art of the possible and future ready principles for transformation
- Seek opportunities to pull-through other CrossCountry solutions and service lines into clients to deliver full-scale transformation services aligned with client needs.
- Play an active role in talent acquisition, including interviewing, hiring, and retaining top-tier professionals who embody our core values
- Serve as a coach and mentor to team members, fostering their professional growth and development
- Actively participate in business development opportunities and market a full range of services to prospective clients including using existing relationships to generate new opportunities
What You'll Bring:
- 9+ years’ experience in professional services preferred
- Strong interpersonal skills / high EQ to rely on when interacting and communicating with others
- Experience delivering to middle-market Private Equity Sponsors and their portfolio companies
- Experience leading and solving end-to-end transformation services (people, process, technology)
- Extensive experience in working with transactions and related integration activities
- Experience selling to and delivering for senior executive client leaders (e.g., Operating Partners, Portfolio Support Teams, CFO, Controller)
- Understanding of end-to-end Office of CFO (FP&A, Accounting, etc.)
- Experience with agile methodologies
- Experience with design thinking techniques that prioritize the user experience/end user of finance solutions
- Experience mentoring and developing junior team members and helping project teams resolve complex and multifaceted issues
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration or related area of study from an accredited university
- Big 4 or similar consulting experience (MBB, Accenture)
- MBA, CPA, CFA, CSM a plus
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