Senior Manager, Finance Transformation
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West Monroe is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Manager of Finance Transformation to join our growing Operations Excellence practice. This role is designed for a motivated individual who is passionate about helping organizations optimize their finance functions, drive operational efficiency, and enable strategic decision-making through technology and process improvements.
As a Senior Manager, you will lead client engagements, manage project teams, and collaborate with senior executives to deliver impactful solutions that address today’s most pressing finance challenges. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment while making a tangible impact on our clients’ success.
What you’ll do:
Client Delivery
- Lead end-to-end finance transformation projects, including assessments, process reengineering, technology enablement, and change management.
- Partner with senior finance executives (CFOs, Controllers, FP&A leaders) to understand their strategic objectives and align solutions to business goals.
- Design and implement improvements to finance processes such as financial planning and analysis (FP&A), order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and record-to-report.
- Oversee the selection and implementation of finance technologies, including ERP systems, EPM platforms, and financial reporting tools.
- Ensure delivery excellence by managing project timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
Team Leadership
- Manage and mentor a team of consultants, fostering their professional growth and development.
- Provide quality assurance review on junior team members’ approaches and deliverables.
- Provide thought leadership and guidance to project teams, ensuring alignment with client needs and West Monroe’s methodologies.
- Promote a collaborative and inclusive team environment that prioritizes client success.
Business Development
- Position self as a ‘go-to’ for farming and/or business development opportunities by partnering with other West Monroe practices to cross-sell capabilities to our clients, originating multiple projects, leading complex pursuits, and identifying competitive threats or market trends that require preparation.
- Review SOW and pricing tool to ensure that projects are profitable, scope is feasible, and the project poses no reputational risk to the firm.
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to drive innovation and thought leadership.
Practice Development
- Contribute to the growth of the Finance Transformation practice by originating and creating methodologies, project assets and tools, and ensuring maintenance of those assets.
- Actively participate in recruiting, training, and onboarding initiatives to build a high-performing team.
- Represent West Monroe at industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities.
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline (e.g., finance, accounting, business/management, economics, information technology, MIS, etc.) or equivalent experience required.
- 8+ years of progressive experience contributing to and leading Finance Transformation programs, and/or providing Finance leadership and support of large-scale process/technology projects.
- Strong functional knowledge of financial planning and analysis (FP&A), project accounting, financial transformation, or finance projects.
- Continuing experience in understanding and/or configuring Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems (e.g., Hyperion, Adaptive Insights, Host Analytics, etc.).
- Experience leading financial close/consolidation processes, process improvement reviews, and M&A transactions (integrations, carve-out, best practice advisory).
- Understanding of US GAAP requirements.
- Expert program manager with extensive experience leading multiple finance transformation projects including developing work plans, project scopes, pricing estimates, budget management, issue and risk management, and presenting deliverables.
- People management experience, and a passion for developing and coaching more junior team members.
- Business development experience including farming leads and assisting in managing the sales process – pursuit strategy, client development cycle and tools, proposal development, fee and profitability planning, and contract management.
- Proven success achieving in-year revenue expectations.
- Strong data visualization and analysis skills; comfortable using tools like Excel to analyze data and present key insights in a compelling way.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to create impactful and concise executive stakeholder-ready deliverables, and polished client-facing oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated success within one or more of West Monroe’s core industries including Consumer & Industrial Products, Healthcare (payer/provider), Life Sciences, High Tech & Software, Utilities, Insurance, Banking, and/or Private Equity.
- Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
- A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.
West Monroe’s Operations Excellence practice is focused on driving value from strategy through execution—not merely pointing to best practices and standards. We enable clients to realize the enduring benefits of IT, business, process, and organizational optimization by delivering real, sustainable adoption. Our solutions focus on value creation through the lenses of people, process, and technology across functional transformation and related platforms, productivity, and transformation enablement. Each consultant within our Operations Excellence practice is aligned to one of four focus areas including Financial Management, Productivity, Supply Chain Management, and Transformation Enablement and Outsourcing Advisory.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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We’re a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients, delivering real-world solutions.
The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We’re fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.
At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results faster and preparing people for what’s next.
You’ll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We’re right there in the room with you, co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe, collaboration isn’t a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.
West Monroe is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit, experience, and potential, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local law. To learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion at West Monroe, visit www.westmonroe.com/inclusion. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our recruiting process, please inquire by sending an email to recruiting@westmonroe.com.
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