Role:
Consulting Director, Business Advisory
Location:
- Clearsulting is headquartered in Cleveland, OH, with additional offices located in Chicago, IL; Columbus, OH; and Dallas, TX. Other cities are welcome remotely.
- Office Options: Hybrid or Remote. Team members residing within a 45 minute commuting radius of a Clearsulting office, we expect 8 days of in-person work per month, allowing flexibility choosing these days to accommodate client meetings, team syncs and individual schedules.
- Travel Expectations: 20-40 %
What you'll do:
- Define and drive the practice's strategic direction, aligning services with client needs and market trends.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior executives, acting as a trusted advisor to address complex business challenges.
- Lead and oversee client engagements, ensuring the delivery of high-quality outcomes within scope, timeline, and budget including assessments, finance transformations, vendor selection, process improvement, finance & accounting operating model modernization, and technology implementations.
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities, prepare proposals, and lead pitches to secure consulting engagements.
- Mentor and develop consulting teams, fostering a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Provide insights and guidance on industry best practices, emerging trends, and innovative solutions to enhance client value. Develop internal and external use cases for AI and GTM solutions.
- Optimize internal processes, tools, and methodologies to improve service delivery and team productivity.
- Help finance transformation and accounting executives solve complex business problems from strategy through execution focused on developing finance functional strategies, improving business performance and implementing new processes and technologies.
- Develop executive-level presentations to communicate complex issues and recommendations across processes, systems, and people.
What You'll Bring:
- 10+ years of finance management consulting experience in finance strategy and transformation, operating model design and shared services, process improvement, program management, and/or technology implementations.
- 5+ years of people management experience
- Functional finance and accounting expertise including thought leadership on industry trends and leading practices
- Extensive project management experience, including: workplan creation and updates, milestone tracking, risk management, status updates, change management, and communicating with clients.
- Foundational knowledge and understanding of data and analytics technologies (i.e., Alteryx, Savant Labs, PowerBi, Tableau, Qlik, Python, VBA, SQL, Access, etc.) as well as AI toolsets.
- Commercial acumen to generate and close opportunities in net new logo and existing account sales cycles.