Senior Consultant / Associate Manager - Finance Transformation

About the role

Sia Partners is looking for a Senior Consultant / Associate Manager to join its Digital & Tech Transformation team, with a focus on CFO services. The role suits someone with a strong background in finance transformation, digital strategy and technology implementation, who can lead complex projects and foster change within organizations.

Key responsibilities

• 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 personal and team tasks, and identify priorities and workflows for stakeholders.
• Present complex ideas to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management.
• Conduct research and business analysis to solve customer challenges, presenting tailored solutions backed by quantitative and qualitative data.
• Lead work streams of complex projects and take charge of simpler ones, while maintaining program sites as repositories of project information.
• Provide status reporting on progress, dependencies, issues, risks and overall program health.
• Support practice, thought leadership and people development activities, and lead internal knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Design and implement business changes that drive transformation, functionality and performance, partnering with clients on high-performance solutions.
• Write business proposals and presentations, detect and qualify business opportunities, and relay relevant information to managers and business unit leaders.
• Supervise project teams internally and on client assignments.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Management or a related field from an accredited institution.
• 4+ years of client-facing management consulting experience managing or creating project deliverables and managing a delivery team.
• Experience in financial risk management, FP&A, budgeting and forecasting, financial and regulatory reporting, procurement, model risk, ERP/EPM implementation, regulatory compliance, treasury and capital management, legal entity management, expense and profitability management, financial controls, processes and procedures, or a similar mix.
• Deep understanding of the financial services industry and its challenges.
• Strong client relationship and management skills, excellent written and oral communication, and solid organizational, multi-tasking and time-management skills.

Required skills

• Preferred: Master's degree or additional certifications (CPA, CFA, FRM, CTP, CFE, Series).
• Advantageous: ERP and EPM tools (NetSuite, Anaplan, Kyriba, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP), RPA tools, Power BI and Tableau, project management methodology, advanced Microsoft Office.