CFO Services - Director - Corporate Performance Improvement (Finance)
Description
About Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement (A&M CPI)
A&M CPI provides management consulting services to help companies improve performance through top line growth and bottom-line expense management. We partner with our clients to identify opportunities, enhance efficiencies, and maintain a competitive advantage. Our lean, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients. We encourage our professionals to live our values of integrity, quality, objectivity, fun and personal reward and inclusive diversity daily and to embrace enriching and diverse experiences with clients and colleagues.
A&M is a firm that values results-oriented leadership and strong people skills. We put a premium on individuals with the right experience who can deliver the most value. Additionally, we provide frequent opportunities to take on greater responsibility and always support employees in professional development. At A&M, you will work alongside world class consultants and former industry executives to deliver gold standard work for our clients. A successful candidate will enjoy an environment that emphasizes entrepreneurship and minimal hierarchy and bureaucracy.
The Opportunity
Our firm's CFO Services group is experiencing significant growth in multiple locations. We are seeking individuals at the Director and Senior Director levels to join our team to deliver large, complex and transformational client engagements. We offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and building leadership skills. We are focused on providing development opportunities, training and exposure to a cross section of industries. Our small project teams give you frequent exposure to client executives and rapid growth in your areas of interest.
Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Performance Improvement is searching for candidates with 7+ years of finance and accounting experience to join our CFO Services team and deliver large, complex and transformational client work. A&M helps a company's CFO and key finance leaders re-imagine the finance function and identify methods to improve a company's back office, FP&A and reporting processes leveraging best practices, digital processes, org redesign and technology.
About CFO Services
Successful CFOs are expected to partner with and provide guidance to the Board, CEO and other executives in making critical decisions directly impacting the success of the business. Whether you need a seasoned leader to provide advisory or interim CFO services or support for critical finance transformation and performance improvement activities, A&M provides the leadership, action and results to meet today's CFOs' evolving needs.
A&M organizes to serve CFO's and finance executives under these core service offerings:
- Finance Strategy
- Finance Operations
- Treasury & Working Capital Management
- FP&A modernization
- Intelligent Finance Solutions
- Global Business Services
The ideal candidate will have experience and knowledge in the following areas:
- Developing a future-state vision and strategy for the CFO organization by performing finance and accounting current-state assessments
- Finance and accounting process improvement including core finance functions (AP, AR, Credit, General Accounting, Payroll), cash forecasting, working capital management, financial reporting, and FP&A
- Finance technology strategy and roadmap
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
- Financial system and integrator selection
- Deployment of digital workforce leveraging AI, ML, GenAI, Agentic AI
- Rapid cost reduction
- Liquidity and cash management
- Organization design, improvement, finance and accounting function buildout
- Shared services design and implementation
- Business case development and management including benchmarking, KPI design and measurement
- Ability to lead large-scale multi-year projects / project and change management
- Experience with client presentation development and engaging presentation of key concepts
Responsibilities:
- Develop client relationships at every level, look for new opportunities to assist, provide thought leadership, shape sales content, and be a true trusted advisor
- Assist in the planning and execution project phases, and supervise others to ensure the following: coordination of work efforts with the client; completion of defined deliverables; adherence to project and budget milestones and timelines; communication of progress to all parties (internal and external)
- Provide service excellence by identifying key issues and driving, measuring and reporting on results of engagements
- Determine client needs using standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches
- Evaluate and validate analysis and develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
- Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables
- Participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities
Qualifications:
- 5-20 years of relevant consulting, finance transformation, or industry experience
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, accounting, or finance; MBA a plus
- Prior consulting industry experience is strongly preferred
- Digital experience a plus
- Shared Services leadership or outsourcing advisory a plus
- Strong financial acumen
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to exercise critical thought
- Comfortable with travel up to 80%
- Ability to handle multiple, and often conflicting, priorities at one time
The salary range for Director is $150,000 - $210,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography. In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus program which is based on a number of factors, including individual and firm performance. Please ask your recruiter for details.
Application Timeline
Alvarez & Marsal recruits on an ongoing basis. Candidates are considered as they apply, until the opportunity is filled. Candidates are encouraged to apply expeditiously to any role(s) that they are qualified for and that are of interest to them.
Benefits
Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are also entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings' fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages at rates determined from time to time as well as a 401(k) retirement plan. Provided the eligibility requirements are met, employees will also receive a discretionary contribution to their 401(k) from Alvarez & Marsal. Additionally, employees are eligible for paid time off including vacation, personal days, seventy-two (72) hours of sick time (prorated for part time employees), ten federal holidays, one floating holiday, and parental leave. The amount of vacation and personal days available varies based on tenure and role type.
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