Principal Duties And Responsibilities:

- Assisting in business diagnosis and planning activities

- Documenting As-Is Process in core finance areas

- Carrying out gap analysis between As-Is processes and Best Practices and formulating specific solutions to address prioritized gaps

- Defining splits of processes across Shared Service, Business unit and Center of Excellence

- Designing to-be processes and roles leveraging leading practices and enabling technologies

- Assisting in designing of reporting requirements for operational reports, service level requirements and process KPIs

- Assisting in managing Process Transition, Knowledge Transfers & Process Reengineering

- Assisting with shared services operating model design and implementation including governance and service management

- Assisting in conducting business case analysis for a shared services programs

- Assisting clients in enabling technology selection for Shared service and helping prioritize implementation

- Assisting business architecture implementation activities

- Defining testing and implementation activities for architectures, capabilities and processes

- Developing and testing business processes, capabilities, and architectures

- Preparing the client for deployment (communications, training)

Qualifications: - MBA/CA/CFA

Experience:

- 1-14 years of work experience preferably candidates from BPO, Consulting firms or Companies involved in setting up of Captive Shared Services.

- At least 1 project in one or more phases ( Assessment, Planning, Design, Development, Operational Support) of Implementation of Finance and Accounting Shared Service Centers or BPO in one of the core finance processes

- Functional experience in Finance transformation projects across all or any of the phases i.e Plan, design, Build, Test and Deploy, preferably involving implementation of Enabling technology, tools and Software applications

- Experience working with a Management Consulting firm is preferred.

- Experience with either one or more of the following ERP financials applications from a Business Analysis & Functional Design perspective is preferred: PeopleSoft, Oracle or SAP, Experience on shared service feasibility studies, design as well as operations including transition of work from onsite location

Key Competencies and Skills:

- Should be able to design to-be processes and roles leveraging leading practices and enabling technologies

- Should know how to assist in designing of reporting requirements for operational reports, service level requirements and process KPIs

- Should know how to assist in managing Process Transition, Knowledge Transfers & Process Reengineering

- Should know how to assist with shared services operating model design and implementation including governance and service management

- Should know how to assist in conducting business case analysis for a shared services programs

- Should know how to assist business architecture implementation activities