Grant Thornton

Finance Transformation Manager

Grant Thornton$147K — $196K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
  • 5+ years in consulting or finance role at a national level
  • Professional certification required
  • Strong analytical and quantitative analysis skills
  • Experience in process analysis and business intelligence
  • Knowledge of financial processes including close-the-books and treasury
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop solutions tailored to client strategies and operations
  • Oversee engagement management tasks including performance reviews and project scheduling
  • Utilize consulting experience to guide clients towards long-term goals
  • Conduct thorough analysis and design solutions for varied client challenges
  • Manage business development activities, including proposals and thought leadership
  • Achieve or surpass sales targets for new business opportunities
  • Foster strong client relationships and collaborate effectively with their teams
  • Identify and address client problems promptly with partners
  • Lead, mentor, and assess staff performance on projects

Benefits

  • Resources and environment to support personal and professional growth
  • Exposure to diverse client challenges and projects
  • Opportunity to work with senior management and partners
  • Flexible work environment with potential for remote work
  • Career development opportunities through training and mentorship
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Finance Transformation Manager, you'll be responsible for business process analysis, requirements definition efforts for remediating gaps, cost and cycle time analysis/remediation, and the communication and change management required to ensure the success of our clients - all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

From day one, you'll collaborate with our Transformation Practice to help clients transform their finance and operations functions, both process-related and reporting, as well as design and implement sustainable models that streamline operations, and comply to business needs. This role looks beyond just control points and focuses on Finance Process Optimization changes that achieve necessary business transformation.

Your day-to-day may include:
  • Develop client-focused solutions based on understanding strategy, operations, and management in several functional areas of corporations and organizations
  • Perform engagement management responsibilities, including performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality review and client management
  • Utilize previous consulting and industry experience to help companies set and achieve their long-term goals.
  • Perform accurate analysis and design effective solutions to a variety of client issues
  • Manage business development activities, such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership material
  • Meet or exceed sales targets for new and follow-on work
  • Maintain a good working relationship with clients and work effectively with client management and staff at all levels to gather information and perform services
  • Work closely with managers and partners to promptly identify and resolve client problems or issues
  • Manage, develop, train, coach and mentor staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews
  • Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
  • Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills or qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
  • Minimum 5 years of work-related experience in a consulting role serving cross-industry clients at a national level, or relative Finance function role(s) within industry
  • Industry recognized professional certification required
  • Strong analytical skills and ability to perform quantitative analysis and develop business cases
  • Process analysis, Reporting & Business Intelligence, Data Analysis & Reconciliation
  • Working knowledge of Close-the-books, Chart-of-Accounts, Treasury, Financial Planning and Analysis & Financial Benchmarking
  • Strong interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills
  • Excellent written and verbal skills
  • Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 30%

The base salary range for this position is between $147,200 and $196,880. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton's discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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Benefits:

We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that's a good thing. That's why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits

  • Benefits for internship positions: Grant Thornton interns are eligible to participate in the firm's medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm's employee assistance program. Interns also receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave, and are paid for firm holidays that fall within their internship period.
  • Benefits for seasonal employee positions: Grant Thornton seasonal employees are eligible to participate in the firm's medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm's employee assistance program. Seasonal employees may also be eligible to participate in the firm's 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements. Seasonal employees receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave.


Grant Thornton employees may be eligible for a discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance, subject to the terms, conditions and eligibility criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program. Interns and seasonal employees are not eligible for bonus compensation.

About Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton LLP is the American member firm of Grant Thornton International, the seventh largest accounting network in the world by combined fee income. Grant Thornton LLP is the sixth largest U.S. accounting and advisory organization. The firm operates 59 offices across the US with approximately 8,500 employees, 550 partners, and produces annual revenue in excess of US$1.9 billion. During the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, The Times reported that Grant Thornton is in line to earn millions of pounds for acting as trustees in a bankruptcy case on behalf of the Russian state-owned DIA, who bypassed sanction regimes to obtain funds and assets from abroad in order to fund the war in Ukraine.
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