Controllership Services | Finance & Accounting Automation - Workiva | Sr Consultant
As a Consultant in Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory’s Controllership Services practice, you will gain valuable hands-on experience working alongside leading professionals while building your professional skills in a variety of digital finance and accounting specialties including reporting, process optimization, reconciliation, internal controls and other areas using Workiva solution.
Our Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory business helps organizations effectively navigate business risks and opportunities—from strategic, and financial risks to operational, and regulatory risks—to gain competitive advantage. We apply our experience in ongoing business operations and corporate lifecycle events to help clients become stronger and more resilient. Our market-leading teams help clients embrace complexity to accelerate performance, disrupt through innovation, and lead in their industries.
Work you’ll do
You will implement Workiva Wdesk and Wdata solutions, optimize processes, develop requirements, create roadmaps, and manipulate, and manage data connections, tool workflows, templates and permissions. Sample Senior Consultant responsibilities include:
• Working with clients to understand business challenges and identify solutions to drive desired outcomes
• Performing current state assessment of client accounting, reporting, reconciliation, data, and algorithm capabilities
• Developing system requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures and implementing with specific focus on Workiva Wdesk, Wdata and integration with other applications
• Mapping data flows and to identify optimal design and governance options as well as potential risks
• Using Wdata and Wdesk to create templates, connections, templates, data flows, integrations, etc
• Focus accounting and finance domain areas of reporting and data management including financial, management, regulatory reporting, internal controls, global statutory reporting, enterprise data modeling
• Developing other business solutions leveraging emerging automation, cognitive, and machine learning tools.
The team: Controllership
Deloitte Advisory’s Controllership team helps organizations reduce risk and improve reporting capabilities to meet accounting and regulatory requirements, governance in complex operating models, and support for major business events and transactions. Controllership team provides an extensive range of financial accounting and reporting services with a comprehensive industry-focused approach. Learn more about our team at Deloitte.
Qualifications
Required:
• Undergraduate or master’s degree in the following majors with relevant business, technology, data and/or analytical focused coursework:
Business: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Business Analytics
Technology: Management Information Systems, Accounting Information Systems, Computer Science
Math/Engineering: Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering
• Strong communication, team building, teaming and presentation experience
• 5+ years of technical or advisory-related experience in controllership, accounting, financial or management reporting
• 2+ years of experience with Workiva Wdesk, Wdata or integrations with source systems
• Experience in SQL and system integration
• Experience in leading and developing teams
• Experience in building finance and accounting models and using purpose-built or custom-built solutions
• Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects/assignments/responsibilities in a fast-paced environment
• Opportunities to travel up to 50%, depending on role and location
Preferred:
• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Business, Technology or Math/Engineering (B.E./B.Tech (Computer Science), CAs/CPAs, MBAs)
• Experience with packaged technologies (e.g., S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud, Workday, BlackLine, Workiva, OneCloud) or RPA
• Project experience in areas such as process mapping, root cause/gap analysis/best fit, requirements gathering / definition development, financial modeling and value mapping
• Experience in Financial Reporting/Statutory Reporting automation
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• High energy, result driven person
• Ability to energize teams through inclusiveness and connection with people
• Strong commitment to the customer
• Ability to multi-task and ensure timely deliverables
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