Finance Competency - Senior Manager: Advisory: Consulting
Consumer and Industrial Products, Energy and Mining

Purpose of Job
1. Business development – growing and delivering on a client target portfolio
2. Solution / proposition development – developing a response to client / market / industry issues
3. Engagement delivery - managing project deliverables and teams

Key Outputs
* Business development
* Client targeting / Leveraging personal and business networks
* Issue identification
* Competency collaboration
* Leading key account programmes
* Leveraging research (internal and external knowledge) and trends to develop thought leadership

Solution development
• Collaboration in developing answers to complex client issues and developing tailored solutions
• Response to client requests and RFPs
• Developing and leading proposals and development of hypothesis / business cases
• Providing advise to client and team as subject matter expert
• Research and alignment of firm service offerings and expertise
• Developing industry / solution knowledge

Engagement delivery
• Managing projects of high complexity (locally, on the African continent & participation in global engagements)
• Managing alliance partners and joint business relationships (contactors and sub-contractors to projects)
• Managing engagement economics of projects
• Defining the objective and project deliverables
• Preparing and monitoring project plan
• Allocating tasks to individuals
• On-site quality control and team management
• Reporting progress against the project plan
• Conducting post implementation quality review
• Leading client meetings at a higher level
• Report writing

Experience
• Minimum of 10 years experience within Advisory / Consulting with business industry experience preferable
• Knowledge of leading practices in group and business services / support services with specific expertise in Finance Transformation, Finance Processes, Operating Model Design and Implementation, Shared Services and Enterprise Performance Management
• Microsoft applications (Powerpoint, Excel, Word and MS Project)
• ERP systems (SAP / Oracle)

Qualifications
? B.Comm / B.Compt / B.Acc Hons (essential)

Professional Affiliations:
? CA / ACMA accreditation (essential) CPD / Specialisation

Competencies / Attributes
? Building and sustaining relationships
? Managing diverse teams
? Being passionate about customer service
? Being curious – learning, sharing and innovating
? Leading and contributing to team success
? Communicating with impact and empathy
? Developing self and others through coaching
? Demonstrating courage and integrity
? Acquiring and applying commercial and technical expertise
? Managing projects and economics
? Being open-minded, practical and agile with change
? Motivated self-starter
? Dedicated individual who is team player
? Passionate about making a difference – embrace change
? Articulate, but innovative thinker who can think outside current paradigms
? Confident individual comfortable in challenging the status quo
? Gravitas
? Multi tasker

Travel Required Frequent
Overtime Required Yes

Areas of experience:
• Finance operating models
• Finance benchmarking
• Finance function assessments
• Shared Service design & implementation
• Finance processes (R2R, P2P, H2R, O2C)
• Planning / budgeting / forecasting
• Stakeholder management
• Performance management
• Decision support
• Risk Management
• Governance, compliance and controls
• Tax management
• Asset management
• Working capital management