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Associate Director - Finance Transformation
CrossCountry Consulting
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CrossCountry Consulting

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Posted:
January 10, 2021
Location:
McLean, Virginia
Salary:
Open
CrossCountry Consulting is a trusted business advisory firm that provides customized finance, accounting, human capital management, risk, operations, and technology consulting services to leading organizations facing complex change. We partner with our clients to help them navigate pressing business challenges and achieve goals related to improving operations, minimizing risks, and enabling future growth.
Our people are our most valuable asset and our individual differences are our greatest strength. At CrossCountry, we embrace and value our individual experiences, capabilities, talents, and perspectives by fostering and promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion. Join our team where Excellence is a priority, Collaboration and teamwork are the norm, Energy is contagious, and the opportunity to make an Impact is endless.
We love to help our clients and our people succeed... and it shows! Click here to see why our employees made us #2 on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2020 list .

As an Associate Director in CrossCountry's Business Transformation Practice, you will serve as an extension of our leadership team to lead, develop, and build our finance transformation and optimization services. In this role you'll help our clients optimize and align their operating model (organization, process, and technology) to be a better strategic business partner to the business.

Responsibilities: Client Delivery
    • Partner with our clients to create, develop, plan, and execute effective and consensus-driven optimization and transactions strategies to include: assessing current state, visualizing desired state operating model, providing a clear roadmap to guide the transformation, ensuring organizational structure maximizes productivity and/or control issues, etc.
    • Manage projects through creating, coordinating, and maintaining an integrated project plan as well as using project management tools
    • Lead projects across the project lifecycle from current state documentation, gap analysis, requirements gathering, future state design, and implementation across the organizational, process, technology and data dimensions
Responsibilities: Practice Leadership
    • Serve as a key leader in our practice by guiding and directing strategic firm and practice initiatives
    • Lead marketing and business development efforts in support of all the firm's services with a focus on continuing to develop the Finance Transformation service offerings
    • Developing new client relationships as well as expanding at existing clients
    • Participate in firm-wide committees and internal initiatives such as thought leadership, industry forums, recruiting, sales/business development, marketing, training, and organizational development
    • Manage teams by guiding performance against objectives, creating an atmosphere of trust and collaboration, modeling leadership behaviors, and encouraging continuous improvement/innovation
    • Lead coaching family by serving as a role model, coach, mentor and liaison to the leadership team
Travel
    • Willingness to travel domestically up to 25%
Required Experience & Qualifications
    • 10+ years of relevant experience helping organizations through complex finance transformation and optimization projects across people, process, and technology
    • Experience delivering complex finance transformation projects for CFOs, CAOs, Controllers and Fortune 500 companies, to include: leading planning and design, managing the projects, interfacing with executives and boards of directors, and developing follow-on work
    • Prior experience in professional services (public accounting or advisory firm), preferably at the "Big Four" or with a management consulting firm
    • Broad understanding of common Finance and Accounting applications including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems, and Spend Management, as well as familiarity with cloud-based solutions
    • Project Management experience including Agile and Waterfall methodologies
    • Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word
Desired Experience & Qualifications
    • Strong preference for Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or operational accounting experience
    • Knowledgeable of leading practices in the CFO/CAO/Controllership organizations as well as current market trends that may be impacting the finance group
    • Functional lead or Project Management lead roles for finance and accounting system implementations
    • Target Operating Model (TOM) experience
    • Demonstrated track record of establishing credibility both internally and externally
    • Proven leader with the ability to foster an environment of collaboration and excellence
    • Passionate about building, developing, motivating, and leading others
    • Strong attention to detail with the ability to think from a "big picture" perspective
    • Creativity, confidence, and flexibility
    • High energy, enthusiasm, and an entrepreneurial spirit
Education
    • Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Accounting, Business, Finance, Information Systems, or other technical discipline
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CrossCountry Consulting provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants and believes that respect and fair treatment are critical to creating a productive, diverse, and inclusive workplace. As an equal opportunity employer, CrossCountry is fully committed to comply with all federal, state, and local laws. A ll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, pregnancy, genetics, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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About CrossCountry Consulting
CrossCountry Consulting is a trusted business advisory firm that provides customized finance, accounting, human capital management, risk, operations, and technology consulting services to leading organizations facing complex change. We partner with our clients to help them navigate pressing business challenges and achieve goals related to improving operations, minimizing risks, and enabling future growth. Our people are our most valuable asset and our individual differences are our greatest strength. At CrossCountry, we embrace and value our individual experiences, capabilities, talents, and perspectives by fostering and promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion. Join our team where Excellence is a priority, Collaboration and teamwork are the norm, Energy is contagious, and the opportunity to make an Impact is endless.
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