Senior Analyst - CFO Excellence

Who We Are

What You'll Do

• As a Senior Analyst within BCG’s Corporate Finance & Strategy practice (CFS) and its Center for CFO Excellence (CFOx) team, you will work in a growing global team, delivering value to clients in all aspects of CFO related products and opportunities, from value creation strategy to performance management, digital finance and lean/agile working culture in finance.
• This would entail issues such as defining the role of the finance organization, transforming the finance function to be efficient & effective, control finance costs, ability to steer and make relevant decisions, enablement of value creation and the facilitation of corporate planning decisions, including measures to align corporate, financial and investor strategies
• You are good at
• **Candidate should have experience and/or knowledge related to at least one of the following areas: finance organization (including shared services), finance transformation, external and internal reporting, corporate governance, performance management, planning, budgeting and target setting, corporate risk management or similar.**
• **The Senior Analyst is expected to be familiar with financial and non-financial benchmarking analyses, including analyses regarding profitability, capital structure, liquidity, and cash flow performance. The candidate should have deep end to end expertise in at least 2 finance process towers such as Record to Report, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Financial Planning & Analysis, Cash & Banking / Treasury, Payroll, Fixed Assets, etc.**
• As a Senior Analyst on the Client-Focused track, the candidate will be deployed in client engagements with core consulting teams to identify and analyze client challenges, provide customized knowledge of best-in-class practices as domain expert, develop solutions to address critical client issues, and chart a path for the client to constantly enhance performance. The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellent communication, high-quality analytical skills, and ability to deliver client ready analyses and insights.
• The candidate will work also with topic team to collaborate, develop and maintain new knowledge materials related to CFOx topic based on emerging trends and gaps identified by consulting teams.
• The candidate will collaborate across the topic to build tools, analyses and insights to drive new ways of thinking and problem-solving.

What You'll Bring

• Minimum of 5 years of years relevant work experience in at least one of the following areas: management consulting, financial management, controlling & reporting, treasury, accounting & audit, corporate development, corporate finance or other equivalent areas
• Master’s degree in business administration, corporate finance, accounting, mathematics etc. with very good academic achievements and / or CPA with a management consulting background
• Confident client presence and relationship-building skills
• Effective written & verbal communication
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong work ethic & service-oriented mind-set
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and credibility
• Collaborative team player and pro-active self-starter
• Ability to maintain discretion when needed
• Fluency in Arabic

Core Consulting Teams

• Staffed as topic champion along with core consulting teams in client engagements by bringing in core domain expertise
• Own and drive successful completion of a module in client projects
• Provide insight generation expertise during team discussions to frame and structure client issues
• Provide problem solving and solutioning to drive improvements across client organization
• Enhance client deliverables by conducting high-quality analyses and applying business judgement
• Suggests alternative or additional analyses to expand original scope and provide new insight
• Demonstrate good slide-writing and story-lining skills to generate client ready materials
• Concise, synthesized and confident during discussions with project teams, running workshops with client teams and presenting analysis & findings to clients
• Develop effective relationships with senior project leadership to build strong demand as a topic champion for repeat staffing
• Support proposal development by guiding consulting teams on transformation approach, BCG capabilities, past case credentials and experts

Topic Teams

• Build and update new topic-related customized knowledge products
• Control the consistency of knowledge management databases
• Reviews knowledge products and ensures they are current and relevant and updates when appropriate
• Writes abstracts and indexes for projects and practice documents
• Assisting in Practice Area intellectual capital development projects (studies, articles and other publications.
• Additional info
• The Vantage Team is a group of functional and/or industry experts leveraging deep domain knowledge to enable insight for case teams and clients.
• Vantage members are affiliated to BCG Practice Areas, plugged into the strategic agenda and building and deploying leading edge IP data tools/assets to deliver insight.
• BCG's Vantage Team members have the opportunity to be staffed on cases and help co-create insights with case teams and clients through expert perspectives on industry trends, delivery of proprietary data or tools in a particular function and complex research and analysis of market information.
• Vantage members also support the PA’s business development and proposals and help to organize and codify the knowledge that enables BCG to deliver superior business value for its clients.
• Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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