Senior Director, Finance Technology & Data Enablement | Office of the CFO | Corporate Finance & Restructuring

Who We Are 

FTI Consulting is the world’s leading expert-driven consulting firm. Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting experts have served as the trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies and the world’s leading law and private equity firms when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Our strong performance and continued success are a direct reflection of the ambition, energy, and commitment of our talented professionals across the globe to make a positive impact for our clients and communities. 

At FTI Consulting, you’ll be inspired and empowered to make an impact on headline matters that change history. Working side by side with the world’s leading experts in your field, you’ll be surrounded by an open collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and most importantly, you. 

There’s never been a more exciting time to join FTI Consulting and this is where you will do the most exciting and fulfilling work of your career. 

Are you ready to make an impact? 

About The Role 

In FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance & Restructuring organization, we focus on our clients’ strategic, operational, financial and capital needs by addressing the full spectrum of financial and transactional opportunities faced by corporations, boards, private equity sponsors, creditor constituencies and other stakeholders.

Within the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment, the Office of the CFO Solutions practice offers solutions to manage our client’s CFO inbox for a company and help maximize its performance to position them for success to meet today’s increasing challenges. The Finance Technology & Data Enablement team helps CFOs create dynamic reporting tools that can lead to profitable revenue growth and cost optimization through the use of data-driven insights.

What You’ll Do 

As a Managing Director of Finance Technology & Data Enablement within FTI’s Office of the CFO (“OCFO”) Solutions practice you’ll collaborate closely with our CFO clients. You will partner with our OCFO consulting teams to design and develop cutting edge analytical solutions that address challenging and complex business issues.

We are seeking a collaborative and "hands-on" leader energized by the opportunity to join a team to create value for clients, while possessing sound business judgement and problem solving skills.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with CFO Clients: Partner closely with our CFO clients to understand their unique needs and challenges, providing tailored solutions that drive business performance.

• Background in delivering ERP and EPM Solutions with a Finance & Accounting led approach: The candidate will have functional knowledge and understanding of the data structure for one or more ERP and EPM solutions and ability to leverage ERP and EPM data sets to drive data-drive insights.

• Hands on Finance and Accounting Delivery: Execute complex projects for our CFO clients that leverage data enablement to deliver bespoke solutions in functional areas that include, but not limited to, technical accounting, accounting close & reporting, billing & collections, A/P management and FP&A reporting and planning.

• Manage Client Relationships: Build and maintain strong relationships with CFO and finance and accounting clients, ensuring their needs are met and expectations are exceeded.

• Offer Strategic CFO Advisory: Provide strategic advisory services to clients, helping them navigate financial, accounting and operational challenges and capitalize on opportunities.

• Set-up data environment, architecting technical design for solution development: Build cloud based data stack to transform client data for financial reporting and data insights to build a culture of data enablement for our financial advisory practice

• Integration Strategy: Develop methodology/approach between financial and FP&A reporting/forecasting, data strategy & enterprise wide technology infrastructure & management.

• Lead Data Enablement Assessment: Assess CFO and finance and accounting technology tools and data flows across financial and operational systems to identify opportunities for enriching the finance and accounting team’s reporting and analytics infrastructure, enhancing business insights.

• Design Reporting/Dashboard Solution Design: Develop and implement dynamic reporting tools leveraging ERP and EPM data that enhance decision-making, support profitable revenue growth, and optimize costs. Collaborate with finance and business counterparts to design bespoke solutions / tools including data visualizations and dashboards that integrates with the client ERP and/or EPM solutions. Document functional and technical requirements, lead proof-of-concept solution development, and support clients with implementation planning and testing/validation.

• Manage Data Extraction, Transformation, and Analysis: Oversee the extraction, transformation, and analysis of data from client systems ERP and/or EPM solutions / databases. Identify, capture, and/or integrate new or disparate data sources and integrate with the ERP data.

• Develop Finance and Accounting led Data and Management Strategy: Utilize data-driven insights and structure of finance chart of accounts to help CFOs create strategies that maximize performance and meet the evolving demands of their roles. Support client’s in the development of finance and accounting led data management strategies to lead efforts & assist clients with diverse data management initiatives, including data cleansing, data governance, and data reconciliation.

• Deliver Project Management: Drive alignment between business users, finance, and IT client teams to support end-to-end project delivery as a data and technology enablement subject matter expert.

• Lead Practice Development: Hire, manage, and upskill the data management capabilities of the OCFO team to support the efficient execution of projects. Foster the development of reporting, dashboarding, and data aggregation and analysis skills using tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, and Alteryx.

• Provide Thought Leadership: Collaborate with OCFO consulting teams to identify and pursue innovative data enablement “use cases” that further strengthen our core capabilities in delivering reporting and financial insights to our clients. Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices, continuously improving our service offerings and methodologies.

How You’ll Grow 

The performance expectation for our client’s finance function is at a new peak, and the demands placed on a CFO have never been greater.  This is where you can step in and make an immediate impact. This is an excellent opportunity for a person with proven, hands-on project delivery experience to work with our clients to help them plan, design, and execute key analytics initiatives to drive improved business performance.        

What You Will Need To Succeed 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field (e.g., accounting, finance, or management information systems) with a strong quantitative and programming background.

• 10+ years of relevant experience in accounting, FP&A and finance technology (ERP, EPM and bolt-on solutions), data analytics, or a related field.

•  Strong understanding of accounting & finance process, data flows, and experience in assessing and enhancing data infrastructure working on behalf of CFO and the finance & accounting organization.

• Strong finance and data management (e.g., SQL, Python, etc.) skills with the ability to perform effective querying involving multiple tables and subqueries, as well as skills with one or more cloud-based computing platforms.

• Strong background in data analysis and visualization, and familiarity with tools such as Excel/VBA, Alteryx, Tableau, and Power BI.

• Demonstrated ability to lead matters requiring advanced analytical approaches, database design and complex data modeling.

• Experience working with complex data environments including data extraction, transformation, and analysis from diverse data sources.

• Excellent project management skills, with a track record of successfully managing cross-functional teams and complex projects.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and ability to multitask.

• Experience in developing constructive relationships with a wide range of different stakeholders and ability to think "out of the box" to provide suggestions on ways to improve the practice. 

• Willingness to travel as needed to client sites.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or other advanced degree in a related field

• Experience in a financial advisory consulting environment

• Familiarity with core finance and accounting processes for accounting & FP&A

• Demonstrated thought leadership in the field of finance technology and data enablement