Description
Alvarez & Marsal is a leading global professional services firm specializing in providing performance improvement, turnaround management and corporate advisory services. With over 9000 professionals based across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, our firm excels in problem solving and value creation.Drawing on a strong operational heritage and hands-on-approach, our professionals work closely with organizations and stakeholders to help tackle complex business issues and maximize value.
Our India office, offers clients Performance Improvement, Turnaround and Restructuring Advisory, and Transaction Advisory Services to PE firms, Corporates and banks. Additionally, A&M brings industry expertise to India in a range of sectors, including Financial services, Consumer, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Industrial, technology, transportation & infrastructure, Metals & Mining and Energy.
Our CFO Services team partners with organizations to navigate complex financial challenges, drive operational efficiencies, and enhance enterprise value. Our experts provide interim management, accounting remediation, and bankruptcy reporting to stabilize businesses in critical situations. We optimize liquidity through working capital improvements, cash flow forecasting, and treasury management. Leveraging data-driven insights, we enhance financial consolidations, reporting, and decision-making. Our approach ensures readiness for corporate transactions, IPOs, and capital market expectations while streamlining operations through process improvements, digital enablement, and tax optimization
Key responsibilities:
- Be hands on with respect to day-to-day delivery of projects / engagements; Prepare draft project plans and get it reviewed by respective stakeholders
- Drive draft content development leveraging internal knowledge management databases or using own ideas, frameworks, thoughts etc.; Deliver on the project and maintain A&M pace of work; SSC experience is an additional advantage
- Strong execution support across various financial and operational systems:
- CRM tools (e.g. salesforce)
- Vendor management systems
- Financial systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP, Hyperion, FCCS, QuickBooks)
- Expense management systems (e.g. Zoho, SAP Concur, Happay)
- HRMS (e.g. Workday, success factors)
- Payroll systems (HGS, Ascent etc.,)
- Operational systems like time sheet management tools etc.,
- Any other tools, dashboards, platforms, systems that clients use for their operations or business purposes
- Strong program management skills across functions / departments and ability to manage multiple stakeholders; Prepare client presentations and get it reviewed by respective stakeholders
- Plan and enhance self-upskilling: excel skills, report writing etc.,
- Contribute towards credentials, internal initiatives; Ability to work seamlessly with multiple domestic / global teams (at client end as well as A&M)
- Responsible for delivering and executing the CFO services kind of engagements:
- Finance transformation projects (PEPI / Corporate clients)
- Finance organizational design / service delivery model design
- Financial system strategy, roadmap and selection
- Digitally enabled finance & accounting
- Rapid cost reductions
- Taking control of finance function
- Draft JDs, hire key finance stakeholders, training and transitioning
- Finance performance improvements (PEPI / Corporate clients)
- Vision and strategy development
- Finance planning, reporting and analysis
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Working capital optimization
- Management reporting / MIS support
- Month-end close support
- Merger integration & carve-out services (PEPI / Corporate clients)
- Finance integration planning and execution support
- Synergy planning and capture
- Integration / carve-out assessments / due-diligence
- M&A performance improvement and play books
- Finance diagnostic / implementation projects
- As part of the project, shall need to interact at multiple levels in client teams; Support in business development and practice initiatives.
Educational Qualification & Skills: MBA / PGDM with finance specialization from IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta or Indian School of Business or a CA topper in first attempt with 6 to 8 years of post-qualification experience.
Desirable experience in at least one of the following:
- CFO services team from strategy consulting firms
- Finance transformation / finance effectiveness experience from consulting firms
- Finance controllership, financial planning & analysis etc.,
- Post-merger finance integration exposure
- Program/ Project Management in large scale cross-functional projects
- Management consulting experience preferably in any functional consulting area like Finance, MIS, MR.
- Leading large-scale cross-functional transformation programs.
- Running or being part of large-scale cross-functional transformation programs
- Management consulting experience preferably in any functional consulting area like Finance, MIS and Reporting, FP&A etc.
- Ability to work seamlessly with global teams (at client end as well as A&M)
Must Haves –
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Outstanding in Excel and PowerPoint
- Team player with ability to work across large teams (internal and external).
