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Role- Expert Process Consultant Finance
Location- New York, NY-Hybrid
Duration- Long term
Role Description:
We are seeking a highly experienced Finance Process Consultant to support a strategic T-OT (Transformation Operations & Technology) Program based in New York. The consultant will play a lead role in assessing, redesigning, and optimizing core finance processes to support the client s enterprise-wide goals of a Unified Financial Foundation, enhanced cross-functional integration, and improved compliance and scalability.
This is a business-critical position, interfacing with finance leadership, IT, compliance, and operational teams to ensure the successful transformation of financial workflows, systems, and reporting structures across a complex multi-entity environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Finance Process Design & Optimization:
- Lead end-to-end process discovery, assessment, and redesign for key finance functions: GL, AP, AR, FP&A, fixed assets, intercompany, close & consolidation.
- Identify process inefficiencies, gaps, manual workarounds, and opportunities for automation or standardization.
- Design future-state processes aligned with ERP system capabilities and global finance operating models.
Strategy & Execution:
- Translate business objectives into actionable transformation initiatives across financial operations.
- Align process improvements with system configuration in ERP (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Workday).
- Partner with functional leads and IT to define data flows, controls, reporting outputs, and audit compliance checkpoints.
Stakeholder Engagement & Facilitation:
- Collaborate with CFO organization, controllership, shared services, and compliance teams to gather requirements and align on outcomes.
- Lead workshops, design sessions, and validation cycles with finance, operations, and IT stakeholders.
Compliance & Risk Management:
- Ensure redesigned processes are SOX-compliant and meet SEC reporting, audit readiness, and internal control standards.
- Embed financial governance, risk, and control mechanisms into future-state designs.
Change Enablement:
- Provide subject matter expertise and coaching to functional teams adopting new tools, workflows, and roles.
- Support training, communication, and transition planning for go-live and post-implementation stabilization.
Required Qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience in finance transformation, process consulting, or finance operations leadership roles.
- Deep expertise in finance process reengineering, shared services, and global finance operating models.
- Experience working on large-scale ERP implementations (Oracle Cloud, SAP S/4HANA, Workday Financials, NetSuite).
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, SOX, and SEC compliance frameworks.
- Proven ability to bridge business and technology functions and deliver measurable improvements.
- Exceptional facilitation, communication, and documentation skills.
- Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business; MBA or CPA preferred.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with process mining, automation (RPA), or finance analytics platforms (e.g., BlackLine, OneStream, Anaplan).
- Exposure to IPO readiness, M&A integration, or multi-entity consolidation programs.
Familiarity with data governance and financial master data standardization