Performance Improvement & Restructuring – Cash Flow / Working Capital Optimization

Deloitte’s USI Performance Improvement & Restructuring (PI&R) team seeks highly motivated individuals with strong analytical skills to help clients achieve profitable growth, strategically manage costs, and navigate financial risks. We are hiring Consultants specializing in Cash Flow / Working Capital Optimization.

What We Do?

Performance Improvement & Restructuring (PI&R) team delivers large, complex engagements that identify, design, and implement innovative solutions to support performance improvement, margin transformation, and restructuring programs. These programs typically accompany structural changes in a client's business and operating model.

Within Cash Flow / Working Capital Optimization, we evaluate and improve a company's working capital management by benchmarking performance, analyzing data, and developing a strategic roadmap for enhancement. Additionally, we help execute and sustain strategies that optimize accounts receivable, accounts payable, and inventory processes, leveraging advanced solutions to ensure ongoing liquidity and operational efficiency.

Role Responsibilities

As a Consultant, you will be responsible for owning and delivering workstreams, managing client interactions independently, and leveraging your experience to build your network.

Day – to – day responsibilities include

·            Manage data, curate insights, and deliver robust analytics to highlight key business issues and inform the project team and client where potential areas improvement exist.

·            Use our proprietary solutions to deliver agile, highly interactive reporting and analytics that help our clients run their business more effectively.

·            Prepare detailed analysis of transaction level detail to identify working capital improvement opportunities.

·            Advise clients by identifying, evaluating and prioritizing actionable improvements to free up significant cash. opportunities from working capital across the Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and Forecast-to-Fulfill processes.

·            Assess process maturity across the Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and Forecast-to-Fulfill processes and identify areas for improvement.

·            Identify areas for improvement in cash flow optimization and forecasting practices.

·            Assist in implementing processes and create frameworks to sustain tactical improvements across Operational Processes, Working Capital & Cash Management and Forecasting.

Key Capabilities for Practitioners in Cash Flow / Working Capital Optimization

·            Understanding of accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, and their impact on cash flow.

·            Supporting the development and maintenance of cash flow forecasts and liquidity models.

·            Ability to assess process maturity across the Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and Forecast-to-Fulfill processes & prioritize actionable improvements to free up cash .

·            Familiarity with metrics such as Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), Days Payable Outstanding (DPO), Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC), Weighted Average Terms (WAT), Weighted Average days to collect (WADTC), Weighted Average days to Pay (WADTP) etc.

·            Demonstrated knowledge of advanced business analytics and data mining solutions & strong working knowledge of data structures and database design.

·            Ability to interpret financial statements, cost structures, and operational data, experienced in Excel modeling, basic statistics, and financial calculations.

·            Tools –

o    Advanced formulas, pivot tables, and data visualization in excel

o    Creating clear, executive-level presentations in PowerPoint

o    Basic familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, SQL, QlikView or similar data management tools

·            Ability to prioritize & manage multiple workstreams and deadlines while ensuring accuracy in analysis and deliverables.

·            Experienced in change management, project documentation (charters, and decision logs) & ensuring compliance.

·            Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

·            Consulting Background

·            Performance Improvement & Restructuring Advisory Experience, Turnaround / Transformation project experience