Senior Consultant ~ Pigment

Senior Consultant

Finance Transformation team serves as trusted advisors to CFOs, COOs, CIOs, and other key executives, providing strategic advice and implementing as-a-service solutions. We focus on enhancing finance operations and developing strategies to support enterprise-wide decision-making, ultimately unlocking financial performance and enterprise value.

As a Senior Consultant, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality consulting services to clients, focusing on the implementation and optimization of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) systems. This role involves working closely with clients to understand their business needs, configuring FP&A solutions, and ensuring successful deployment and adoption.

Key Responsibilities:

Client Engagement: Work closely with clients to understand their needs and challenges, providing tailored solutions to improve finance operations.

Analytical Diagnosis: Analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement; identify opportunities for process optimization and automation within the client's FP&A function; develop and maintain financial models and dashboards to support client decision-making.

Solution Implementation: Lead the configuration, customization, and deployment of Pigment FP&A software for clients.

Best Practices: Design and implement best practices for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; generate regular and ad-hoc reports to provide insights into financial performance.

Project Management: Develop and manage project plans, timelines, and budgets; manage multiple implementation projects simultaneously, ensuring timely and within-budget delivery; ensure data integrity and accuracy during the migration and integration processes; develop and execute test plans to validate system functionality and performance; coordinate with internal teams and external vendors to ensure project milestones are met.

User Support: Create and maintain user documentation and system guides; develop training materials and conduct training sessions for client end-users; provide ongoing support and troubleshooting for FP&A system users.

Team Overview:

Responsible for the installation, development, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of package technologies. Includes defining or coordinating common processes or procedures to support package custom development, APIs, UI/UX, and process flows and handshakes.

Our Business Finance offering empowers finance teams to drive strategic value by transforming and synchronizing planning, costing, budgeting, and forecasting across various functions. Utilizing advanced, scalable data and technology platforms, we generate actionable insights and analytics, streamline decision-making, and enable data-driven profitable growth. Additionally, we manage risks and opportunities associated with diverse and complex grant programs through comprehensive end-to-end grants management solutions.

Our Finance Transformation team collaborates with key executives to advise, implement, and deliver solutions that enhance decision-making and finance operations. We focus on transforming finance functions into dynamic capabilities, leveraging best-in-class solutions across finance and analytics, planning, FP&A as-a-service, finance technology strategy, and ERP-enabled finance transformation.

Required Qualifications:

Finance Experience: 3+ years in FP&A, Finance, and/or accounting roles

Consulting Experience: 3+ years of consulting experience in a professional services setting (large or boutique firm, or as an internal consultant)

Technical Skills: Proficiency in FP&A software and tools, to include Pigment and Anaplan or Adaptive Insights (Workday); advanced Excel skills and hands-on familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).

ERP: Working knowledge of ERP systems (e.g., Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, SAP)

System Implementation Methodologies: Familiarity with system implementation methodologies (requirements gathering, design, build/test, deploy), with a preference for Agile approaches; experience in creating mock-ups, or managing CoE / prioritization with business stakeholders.

Communication Skills: Proven ability to interact with both business and tech oriented clients.

Education: Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration or related field from an accredited university.

Travel: Ability to travel up to 50%, based on the work you do and the clients ~ industry sectors you serve.

Immigration: Limited sponsorship may be available.

Preferred Qualifications:

Finance Systems and Processes: Advanced understanding of financial systems and business processes; deep knowledge of financial planning processes and their implementation within large organizations.

Deliver Actionable Insights: Ability to interpret complex business data requirements and build analytical models and data feeds that deliver actionable insights.

Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with industry benchmarks and best practices.

Client Interaction: Ability to interact at all levels, build consensus, and foster change.

Engagement Management: Experience managing engagements or parts of larger projects; ability to work independently and manage multiple assignments simultaneously.

Presales Activities: Involvement in presales, proposals, and RFP activities.

Analytical Skills: Superior analytical and critical thinking abilities.

Mentorship: Willingness to mentor and counsel junior staff.

Communication: Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills; proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $107,600~$198,400.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.