Advisory Senior Consultant-Working Capital

Strategy and Transformation | Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring
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Position Summary

Senior Consultant – Cash & Working Capital team

Do you want to help clients identify key business issues to drive meaningful change and mitigate financial, reputational, and mission-related risk? Are you a problem solver who wants to work with clients to figure out what lies behind the financial numbers? If so, Deloitte could be the place for you! Join our team of Cash & Working Capital professionals who bring operational experience and a value-driven methodology to help our clients make the best decision for their mission. If you are seeking a role that offers you the opportunity to advise clients during financial events and through critical transactions, while allowing you to develop personally and professionally, consider a career in Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory’s Cash & Working Capital practice.

Work you’ll do 

As a Senior Consultant, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. You’ll make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Manage data, curate insights, and deliver robust analytics to highlight key business issues and inform the project team and client where potential areas improvement exist.
  • Using our Working Capital Solutions, data visualization and integrated reporting dashboards, we can deliver agile, highly interactive reporting and analytics that help our clients to more effectively run their business and understand what business questions can be answered and how to unlock the answers.
  • Our Practice works with companies, acquirers and private equity firms, to identify value creation opportunities that exist within companies or a potential acquisition candidate to improve business process performance and release excess cash from working capital.
  • Prepare detailed analysis of transaction level detail to identify working capital improvement opportunities
  • Advise clients by identifying, evaluating and prioritizing actionable improvements to free up significant cash opportunities from working capital across the Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and Forecast-to-Fulfill processes
  • Assess process maturity across the Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and Forecast-to-Fulfill processes and identify areas for improvement 
  • Assist organizations in their transition from P&L to a cash-focused culture
  • Identify areas for improvement in cash flow optimization and forecasting practices
  • Assists in implementing processes and to create the frameworks to sustain tactical improvements across:
    • Operational Processes
    • Working Capital
    • Cash Management and Forecasting
  • Project Management Capabilities - be part of and contribute to project teams comprising colleagues from across the firm
  • Business and Commercially Driven - work in a fast-paced, exciting environment with strong business acumen to drive value for our clients
  • Business Development - assist in aspects of pursuits, including presentations and client meetings. Contribute to our practice development initiatives, project, and eminence
  • Learning - learn and develop technical and personal skills to support achievement of career goals, through a blend of structured learning, coaching and experiences
  • Building Relationships - strong working relationships with your peers and our clients; including influencing, advising, and supporting key firm and client decision makers

The team 

Deloitte’s Cash & Working Capital group is a team of professionals specializing in providing in-depth advisory and value creation service to companies and their stakeholders. With strong experience in nearly every major industry and the ability to leverage the national and international resources of Deloitte, our team helps clients conduct financial analysis, analyze risk-based events or transactions that may impact financials, identify working capital, cash, and cost improvement initiatives, and support client negotiations or settlements with its counterparts.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or Computer Science
  • 3-5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 2-3 years of related work experience
  • A track record of participating and delivering performance improvement initiatives or projects related to supply chain/inventory optimization, sourcing/procurement or sales/accounts receivable that deliver tangible results (cost reduction, increased cash flow, etc.)
  • The ability to prioritize effectively on projects and the skills to adapt quickly to new challenges and concepts
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience and knowledge in extracting, mining and visualizing big data sets (i.e. MS Excel & Access / SQL / Alteryx / Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, etc.)
  • Strong communication and critical thinking skills, and confidence in presenting to executives
  • Ability to assist in negotiation and facilitation of discussions with various stakeholders in politically charged environments
  • Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/ sectors you serve
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Preferred:

  • Experience gained within another large professional services organization.
  • Professional designation and/or qualification (i.e. MBA, CPA, P.Eng, Lean Six Sigma, PMP)

Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in New York City, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to New York City and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $107,925 to $197,863.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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As used in this posting, “Deloitte Advisory” means Deloitte & Touche LLP, which provides audit and enterprise risk services; Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, which provides forensic, dispute, and other consulting services; and its affiliate, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP, which provides a wide range of advisory and analytics services. Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP is not a certified public accounting firm. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. These entities are separate subsidiaries of Deloitte LLP.

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