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By joining our rapidly growing Business Transformation practice, you will serve as a trusted partner to our clients. You’ll bring your first-hand experience, unique perspectives, and functional knowledge to deliver tailored, integrated solutions that help our clients solve today's challenges and set the foundation for future success. As an Associate Director at CrossCountry Consulting, you will be responsible for a mix of client delivery, leading teams developing junior team members, and participating in business development activities.
What You'll Do:
- Manage 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
- Gather client requirements and translate into functional and technical design
- Provide hands on development and testing throughout all phases of a OneStream Implementation
- Deliver organization, process, and technology enhancements to build an optimal FP&A function
- Manage projects adeptly, identify potential issues and risks, and use project management tools to craft effective solutions
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure smooth and successful OneStream implementations, leveraging your leadership skills to drive initiatives forward
- Assist in identifying opportunities for improvement in client operations and performance through analytics and strategic insights
- Play a key role in identifying and assessing business obstacles within the FP&A organization. This involves conducting thorough reviews of clients' current state, defining future state processes, and advising on best practices for close management
- Leverage knowledge of leading FP&A-related business processes (e.g., Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Forecasting, Analysis, Consolidations and Reporting)
- Help drive future state functional and technical requirements for FP&A Processes and Systems
- Effectively project manage and lead teams, contributing best practices in key business processes while supporting various Business Transformation projects encompassing system strategy and selection, process and finance improvement, operations performance enhancement, change management, program and project management, data analytics, and business analysis
- Proactively manage the escalation of project issues, risks, or conflicts and offer insightful and timely resolutions
- Lead integration efforts and identify opportunities to enhance efficiency between the client's accounting and finance systems and OneStream/EPM tools
- Conduct thorough reviews of clients' current state documentation, actively engaging the Finance team, defining future state processes, and providing expert advice on best practices for Financial Planning and Analysis processes
- Enhance the client's FP&A processes and tools, driving efficiency and accuracy in their external and internal reporting processes
- Play an active role in talent acquisition, including interviewing, hiring, and retaining top-tier professionals who embody our core values
- 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:
- 10+ years’ experience in implementing OneStream, Oracle/Hyperion or other EPM tools, including leading design, providing hands on application build, leading testing and supporting client delivery
- Prior experience in Consulting, Finance, Accounting or Financial Systems
- Experience with analytical and modeling tools, with the ability to construct complex financial models for analysis and forecasting
- Experience in distilling key data into concise executive dashboards
- Experience in professional services (public accounting, advisory firm or management consulting firm)
- Experience mentoring and developing junior team members and helping project teams resolve complex and multi-faceted issues
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
