Job title: Consultant
Business Finance | FP&A and Management Reporting
We combine experience, scale, and capabilities to help Deloitte clients address some of the most complex business problems. We work with C-level management to help develop key strategic decisions and implement improvements that enhance clients’ financial performance. Our strength is our focus on ‘executable strategy’ across a broad set of strategic and operational client issues. We help clients in setting a strategic vision, redesigning and improving processes, enhancing FP&A and management reporting, helping them partner with the broader organization enabling strategic decision-making.
Examples of work: FP&A Strategy, Management Reporting
Work you’ll do
As part of the team, a consultant plays a key role in the delivery of client engagements. You will be involved throughout the project life cycle, contributing the most value during the problem structuring and analysis phases. Depending on the assignment, your role could be end-to-end across the project life cycle or through a subset of the project phases that cover pre-sales, proposal development, sales execution, client kickoff, tag-team deliverable development and final recommendation.
As part of the analysis phase of the engagement, you will conduct fact-based research by gathering, organizing and synthesizing information to develop key insights. You will also conduct complex financial and business analyses to contribute to client recommendations. On an execution basis, you will conduct primary client interviews and workshops, collating and integrating the information with client data and third-party data obtained through secondary research. Leading from the analysis of this data, you will contribute to developing and refining hypotheses and creating client recommendations. In this work tread you will be expected to assess client profitability, conduct market and trend analysis, perform competitive landscaping, and develop financial models to support decision-making. Responsibilities also include benchmarking FP&A maturity, redesigning planning and forecasting processes, and establishing performance measurement frameworks. Leveraging these insights, you will recommend cost-saving and revenue-enhancing initiatives, propose future growth and market strategies, and develop actionable client roadmaps that align financial planning with long-term business objectives, ultimately strengthening the client’s FP&A capabilities and strategic impact.
The role will provide the candidate with the following opportunities:
• Charting one’s own career and building networks within the organization
• Working both independently and as part of a team with professionals at all levels
• Prioritizing tasks, working on multiple assignments, and raising concerns/questions where appropriate
• Interacting with the client regularly through face-to-face interactions/ video conferences/teleconferences/ mails to understand the client's processes and business problems
• Suggesting practical solutions and collaborating with the client to implement the solutions
• Managing projects or project modules independently
• Seeking information/ ideas/ establishing a relationship with the client to assess any future opportunities for additional business
• Identifying industry best practices and implementing on engagements
• Defining project standards, knowledge of methodologies, and understanding of process improvement initiatives
• Interacting with client’s functional subject matter experts
Required skills
• Clear and concise communication - conduct client interviews, participate in
• Workshops/trainings and present recommendations
• Analytical thinking - ability to perform detailed, quantitative analysis and research (primary and secondary). Synthesize and present insights and recommendations from data
• Logical structuring - structured approach to problem solving and ability to perform root cause analysis of client problems
•Deadline-oriented and quality focused - develop and own development of deliverables
• Collaboration - Work collaboratively in a team environment
Preferred skills
• Be deadline-oriented and quality focused
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
•Demonstrate professionalism
• Good presentation skills
Qualification
• MBA / PGDBM / PGDIE
Experience - 2 to 4 years of relevant experience