Advisory - Controllership - Senior Consultant

$107,659 - $207,763/Yr

Deloitte - Boston, MA

Full-time - Senior

Boston, MA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Senior Consultant in Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory's Controllership Services practice, you will gain hands-on experience working alongside leading professionals while building your skills in digital finance and accounting specialties. This role involves developing business requirements, policies, and procedures, as well as designing and implementing solutions to help clients address complex business issues. You will work with automation technologies to improve accounting processes and navigate various business risks, ultimately helping clients achieve competitive advantages.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing, manipulating, and managing data to deliver meaningful insights for clients.
• Working with clients to understand business challenges and identify solutions.
• Leveraging accounting technology principles to turn data into trusted business information.
• Designing, building, and configuring BlackLine for medium and large organizations.
• Creating, managing, and utilizing structured and unstructured data stores.
• Performing current state assessments of client accounting and data.
• Leveraging tools to enable actionable decision making.
• Developing system requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, and implementing with a focus on BlackLine.
• Mapping data flows to identify optimal design and governance options and potential risks.
• Developing business solutions leveraging emerging automation, cognitive, and machine learning tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Business Analytics, Management Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Industrial Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience with cloud-based financial software/relational databases.
• Project-based experience in business process mapping, root cause/gap analysis, requirements gathering, financial modeling, and value mapping.
• Experience with ERP, GRC, GL, FP&A, or Analytics & Reporting processes and their related technology platforms.
• Configuration experience in financial/data applications like SAP, Oracle, Workday, BlackLine, Alteryx, or similar.
• 2+ years of technical or advisory-related implementation experience in financial close processes, account reconciliations, close task management, or journal entry creation/posting.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's Degree
• Experience in mobile computing, relational databases, database design, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in programming (SQL/JSON/REST/PYTHON) with a solid foundation in computer science.
• Demonstrated expertise in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented software design.
• Knowledge of HTTP and web protocols.
• CPA, CIA, CFA, CA, CCA, CMA, CAIA or FRM certification, or working towards one of these certifications.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual incentive program based on individual and organizational performance.