Consulting Services - Senior Manager - Finance Strategy

Finance Strategy Senior Manager

Step into a role where you'll help shape the future of finance. As part of our Finance Transformation team, you'll collaborate with Finance and Technology leaders to solve their most complex and multi-dimensional challenges. Leveraging Deloitte's unmatched resources and deep industry insights, you'll deliver innovative, market-driven solutions that reimagine and modernize finance functions, elevate performance, and drive meaningful change across the Finance organization and its business partners, Finance technology architecture and data, as well as Finance AI. Join us to empower clients to become strategic business partners, manage risk, and unlock new levels of financial and operational excellence.

We are seeking a motivated and analytical Senior Manager to join our Finance Strategy team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the full Finance function as well as the related operating model structures, experience in the intersection of technology, process design, and change management. In this role, you will support strategic business transformation initiatives, help develop governance structures, assist in implementing new capabilities, and contribute to optimizing functional processes using leading technologies.

Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/25.

Work You'll Do

You, along with a dynamic team of colleagues, will help CFOs and Finance Leaders define and implement a vision for how to elevate their roles as business partners. As a Deloitte Senior Manager, you will provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues and needs and designing and implementing creative business and technology solutions for large companies.

You will be responsible for steering and delivering Finance Transformation projects and cultivating enterprise agility to ensure transformations are anchored in, and unlock, value. As a Senior Manager, you will also play a key role in developing client relationships, mentoring teams, and contributing to practice growth.

Key Areas of Focus Include:

Client Engagement & Delivery

• Lead and manage multiple finance strategy consulting projects for clients
• Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery to ensure high-quality outcomes within scope, timeline, and budget
• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, building trusted advisory relationships

Strategic Financial Analysis

• Conduct financial assessments, benchmarking, and scenario modeling to support client decision-making
• Develop business cases, financial models, and recommendations for initiatives such as M&A, transformation, cost optimization, and capital allocation

Solution Development

• Design and implement innovative finance strategies tailored to client needs, including operating model redesign, process improvement, AI-ready data landscapes, and digital transformation
• Stay current on industry trends, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies impacting finance functions
• Oversee the translation of complex ideas and data into clear, concise, and visually appealing formats for various audiences
• Guide the development of compelling models, storyboards, and presentations to communicate strategic initiatives, project plans, and business cases to stakeholders

Team Leadership & Development

• Manage, mentor, and develop team members
• Lead collaboration with teams in Deloitte's US India practice and other member firms
• Ensure seamless coordination and knowledge sharing across global teams

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key client stakeholders, including senior executives, business unit leaders, and external partners
• Facilitate workshops, presentations, and meetings with client executives and key stakeholders

Business Development

• Support proposal development, client pitches, and thought leadership initiatives
• Identify opportunities to expand services within existing accounts and develop new client relationships
• Participate in client sales presentations

Senior Manager Responsibilities Include:

• Provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues
• Determine client needs by supplementing the 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 and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance
• Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities
• Lead small engagements or components of large, complex engagements

The Team

Our Finance Strategy offering acts as the gateway to the evolving CFO agenda, guiding executive clients in reimagining organizational capabilities through deep finance expertise. From operations to business partnering, we deliver trusted, efficient, and value-centric outcomes for global enterprises. Our services include strategy development, road mapping, strategic PMO, enterprise value creation, and finance automation and innovation.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, or related field
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience working in finance, accounting, or consulting (large or boutique), specifically advising CFOs on one or more of the following areas:
• Finance Transformation (at least 3 large-scale projects led)
• Finance Technology, Architecture Strategy, Data and AI (at least 2 enterprise implementations)
• Capital Strategy, Cost Optimization, Process Improvement, or Service Delivery/Operating Model Design (proven quantifiable outcomes required)
• Minimum 3 years' experience in a formal team or project management capacity, leading teams of at least 3 professionals and overseeing at least 1 major change initiative from start to finish
• Demonstrable record of career progression with at least 2 promotions within relevant organizations or consultancies
• Hands-on experience developing and executing vision and strategy for a Finance organization, including full-cycle transformation (minimum 2 enterprise-level transformations)
• Direct experience with AI-enabled finance processes including agentic orchestration, machine learning, Large Language Models (LLM), robotic process automation, predictive analytics, and finance data visualization tools (minimum 1 implementation in at least 2 of these areas)
• Experience producing deliverables using the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) with advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint required (samples may be requested)
• Must reside within commuting distance (?50 miles) of a Deloitte consulting office
• Willingness and ability to travel at least 50% of the time as client engagements require
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in business (e.g., MBA) from a top-tier program
• Experience with budgetary responsibilities related to projects or resources (managed budgets of at least $250K per project)
• Understanding of the impacts of business model changes on finance organizations, demonstrated through previous consulting or internal leadership roles
• Experience delivering strategy, transformation, and technology projects to the Office of the CFO, including leading cross-functional teams spanning Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Information Technology (minimum 2 such engagements)
• Experience developing proposals and leading programs with multiple concurrent workstreams and large, multi-functional teams (at least 2 such programs scoped and delivered)
• In-depth understanding of end-to-end finance processes such as Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report, and process optimization (minimum 2 completed process redesigns)
• Experience with finance technology systems and cloud platforms (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Anaplan, OneStream, etc.) and analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau); basic understanding of AI/ML concepts (minimum 1 system implemented)
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with both internal and external stakeholders, building consensus in ambiguous situations
• Superior critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional interpersonal, teambuilding, and communication skills
• Ability to build consensus and foster change in ambiguous settings
• Commitment to personal and professional growth
• Sense of responsibility to self, team, and client
• Outstanding integrity, initiative, creativity, and passion
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment