Associate Director - Finance Transformation (Private Equity) at Cross Country Consulting

By joining our rapidly growing Business Transformation practice (and working closely with our Private Equity practice), you will serve as a trusted partner to our premiere PE-backed clients. You’ll bring your first-hand experience, unique perspectives, and functional knowledge to deliver tailored integrated solutions that help our PE-backed clients solve today's challenges and drive value creation. As an Associate Director at CrossCountry Consulting, you will be responsible for a mix of client delivery, leading teams and developing junior team members, and participating in business development activities. If you enjoy business transformation and driving value creation in the fast-paced world of Private Equity, this is a unique opportunity to become part of our growing, collaborative, energetic, and entrepreneurial team!

• Manage multi-faceted projects across the project lifecycle from current state evaluation, gap analysis, requirements gathering, future state design, and implementation across the organizational, process, technology (financial systems), and data dimensions; interacting directly with Portfolio Company CFOs and Controllers, Operating Partners, Portfolio Support teams, Deal Teams, and our Private Equity practice.
• Play a key role in identifying and assessing business obstacles within the Finance and Accounting functions, and delivering end-to-end transformation within the Office of CFO – strategy, process, organization design and structure, data and technology transformation.
• Lead client engagements and facilitate workshops with client groups and key stakeholders to set strategic vision for the future, understand current gaps, and build a roadmap of prioritized strategic initiatives to accelerate time to value.
• Execute engagements utilizing agile principles – scrums, sprints, kanban, etc.
• Assist portfolio companies with executing scalable ‘buy-and-build’ strategies by developing and implementing repeatable integration playbooks.
• Conduct thorough reviews of clients' current processes and defining future state processes.
• Leverage knowledge of leading business processes (e.g., Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Financial Planning and Close, etc.) and the cross-functional dependency on the business and other functional teams (CIO) needed to implement leading practices and provide clients with insightful, value-add perspective on leading market practices.
• Leverage knowledge of leading finance tools, automation, data & analytics, and edge solutions to address client needs.
• Support various Business Transformation projects that could encompass system strategy and selection, process improvement, operations performance enhancement, change management, program and project management, data analytics, and business analysis.
• Create thought leadership on art of the possible and future ready principles for transformation.
• Seek opportunities to pull-through other CrossCountry solutions and service lines into clients to deliver full-scale transformation services aligned with client needs.
• Play an active role in talent acquisition, including interviewing, hiring, and retaining top-tier professionals who embody our core values.
• Serve as a coach and mentor to team members, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Actively participate in business development opportunities and market a full range of services to prospective clients including using existing relationships to generate new opportunities.

• 9+ years’ experience in professional services preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills / high EQ to rely on when interacting and communicating with others.
• Experience delivering to middle-market Private Equity Sponsors and their portfolio companies.
• Experience leading and solving end-to-end transformation services (people, process, technology).
• Extensive experience in working with transactions and related integration activities.
• Experience selling to and delivering for senior executive client leaders (e.g., Operating Partners, Portfolio Support Teams, CFO, Controller).
• Understanding of end-to-end Office of CFO (FP&A, Accounting, etc.).
• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Experience with design thinking techniques that prioritize the user experience/end user of finance solutions.
• Experience mentoring and developing junior team members and helping project teams resolve complex and multifaceted issues.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration, or related area of study from an accredited university.
• Big 4 or similar consulting experience (MBB, Accenture).
• MBA, CPA, CFA, CSM a plus.