Principal Consultant - Solution Design - F&A Solutions - BPO

Role: Principal Consultant - Solution Design (Finance and Accounts)

Function: Solution Design

Base location: Bangalore

Primary areas of responsibilities:

a. Conduct market analysis and provide opportunities assessment in F&A outsourcing, consulting and applications market niches

b. Understand & document client/prospect requirements (objectives, challenges, deliverables etc.) through RFx documents, emails, and other collaterals/information gathered etc.

c. Create structured F&A proposals/solutions independently and with innovative ideas

d. Present proposals/solutions to clients/prospects/internal stakeholders in a way that articulates value delivery clearly

e. Manage internal stakeholder expectations (comprising mainly of sales, services delivery, operations, finance, CoE, F&A practice) through PDCAF (plan-do-check-act-feedback) approach

f. Research and bring out best practices based frameworks, approaches

g. Calculate transaction and compliance level savings based on benchmarks, heuristics and guidance from experts within the team

h. Write F&A centric POVs, blogs and support other promotional channels to generate market visibility

i. Support F&A discovery, due diligence (DD) and transitions

j. Take up short to medium term on-site projects on consulting/billable basis as and when required (this will offshoring feasibility studies, transformation projects)

k. Travel (international and domestic sectors) for average 20% - 30% of the time.

Knowledge & Skills Desired:

a. F&A domain related:

- Finance and Accounts experience in consulting or industries (manufacturing, services, consulting etc.)

- Experience in high end F&A such as financial modeling, budgeting, performance management, improvement studies, financial risk management, would be an added advantage.

- Exposure to commercial models understanding relevant to F&A (e.g. cost break down sheets, business case analysis, TCO analysis, etc.)

- Experience on F&A platforms e.g. SAP-SRM, Oracle, etc.

b. Soft skills related:

- Good English Communication

- Customer Orientation

- Collaboration and Team Working

- Stakeholder management and in cross cultural context

- Relationship building

- Analytical / structured thinking

- Customer Presentation

- Problem solving, structured thinking

- Ability to work as individual contributor

- Ability to work with ambiguity

Education and professional qualifications desired:

Degree in any stream and, or MBA in Finance/Chartered Accountancy/ Cost Accountancy with minimum work experience of 10 years in areas related to the job description.