Alvarez & Marsal is searching for candidates with 8+ years of finance and accounting experience to join our CFO Services team and deliver large, complex and transformational client work. A&M helps a company’s CFO and key finance leaders re-imagine the finance function and identify methods to improve a company’s back office, FP&A and reporting processes leveraging best practices, digital processes, org redesign and technology.

• Develop client relationships at every level, look for new opportunities to assist, provide thought leadership, and be a true trusted advisor
• Assist in the planning and execution project phases, and supervise others to ensure the following: coordination of work efforts with the client; completion of defined deliverables; adherence to project and budget milestones and timelines; communication of progress to all parties (internal and external)
• Provide service excellence by identifying key issues and driving, measuring and reporting on results of engagements
• Determine client needs using standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches
• Evaluate and validate analysis and develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables
• Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities

The ideal candidate will have experience and knowledge in the following areas:

• Performing Finance and accounting current-state assessments leading to a future-state vision and strategy for the CFO organization
• Finance and accounting process improvement including core finance functions (AP, AR, Credit, General Accounting, Payroll), cash forecasting, financial reporting, and FP&A
• Finance technology strategy and roadmap
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
• Financial system and integrator selection
• Deployment of digital workforce leveraging AI, ML, and RPA
• Rapid cost reduction
• Liquidity and cash management
• Organization design, improvement, finance and accounting function buildout
• Shared services design and implementation
• Business case development and management including benchmarking, KPI design and measurement
• Ability to lead large-scale multi-year projects / project and change management

Qualifications

• 8-20 years of relevant consulting, finance transformation, or industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, or finance; MBA a plus
• Prior consulting industry experience is strongly preferred
• Digital experience a plus
• Shared Services leadership or outsourcing advisory a plus
• Strong financial acumen
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to exercise critical thought
• Comfortable with travel up to 80%
• Ability to handle multiple, and often conflicting, priorities at one time