Manager, Finance Transformation
- Minneapolis, MN
- $154,400-181,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead end-to-end finance transformation projects, including assessments, process reengineering, technology enablement, and change management.
- Partner with senior finance executives (CFOs, Controllers, FP&A leaders) to understand their strategic objectives and align solutions to business goals.
- Design and implement improvements to finance processes such as financial planning and analysis (FP&A), order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and record-to-report.
- Oversee the selection and implementation of finance technologies, including ERP systems, EPM platforms, and financial reporting tools.
- Ensure delivery excellence by managing project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Manage and mentor a team of consultants, fostering their professional growth and development.
- Provide thought leadership and guidance to project teams, ensuring alignment with client needs and West Monroe's methodologies.
- Promote a collaborative and inclusive team environment that prioritizes client success.
- Identify opportunities to expand client relationships and drive new business within the Finance Transformation domain.
- Support the development of proposals, presentations, and thought leadership materials.
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation and thought leadership.
- Contribute to the growth of the Finance Transformation practice by developing methodologies, tools, and frameworks.
- Actively participate in recruiting, training, and onboarding initiatives to build a high-performing team.
- Represent West Monroe at industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities.
- Bachelor's degree in related discipline (e.g., finance, accounting, business/management, economics, information technology, MIS, etc.) or equivalent experience required.
- 5+ years of progressive experience contributing to and leading Finance Transformation programs, and/or providing Finance leadership and support of large-scale process/technology projects.
- Strong functional knowledge of financial planning and analysis (FP&A), project accounting, financial transformation, or finance projects.
- Continuing experience in understanding and/or configuring Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems (e.g., Hyperion, Adaptive Insights, Host Analytics, etc.).
- Experience leading financial close/consolidation processes, process improvement reviews, and M&A transactions (integrations, carve-out, best practice advisory).
- Understanding of US GAAP requirements.
- Expert project manager with extensive experience leading multiple finance transformation projects including developing work plans, project scopes, pricing estimates, budget management, issue and risk management, and presenting deliverables.
- People management experience, and a passion for developing and coaching more junior team members.
- Strong data visualization and analysis skills; comfortable using tools like Excel to analyze data and present key insights in a compelling way.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to create impactful and concise executive stakeholder-ready deliverables, and polished client-facing oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated success within one or more of West Monroe's core industries including Consumer & Industrial Products, Healthcare (payer/provider), Life Sciences, High Tech & Software, Utilities, Insurance, Banking, and/or Private Equity.
- Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
- A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.
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