Managing Consultant - Finance Transformation

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Title: Managing Consultant - Finance Transformation

Requisition ID: 44822

City: London

Country/Region: GB

Job Description

Introduction

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company. We harness the power of cognitive computing, hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics and emerging technologies to help our clients adapt to the digital world and make them successful. A company recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services, strong commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship, we have over 280,000 dedicated employees serving clients across six continents. Together, we discover ideas and connect the dots to build a better and a bold new future.

We are an exciting and dynamic company to work for. In our first year entering the Top Employer Institute in Europe we ranked as a “Top Employer” and were assessed on several key HR practices including People Strategy, Work Environment, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Wellbeing and Diversity and Inclusion. This is accompanied by exciting business growth as well where Wipro has posted continued growth in the last 8 quarters.

Practice

Wipro Digital Consulting is combining business strategy & management consulting (“Strategic Value Management”) with leading digital, AI and automation (“Intelligent Enterprise”) to rapidly realize business impact – often using outcome-based skin-in-the-game engagement models to reduce inventories, increase revenues or reduce costs.

We differentiate in four main areas:

1. Pure-play consulting: We continue to do this for Client access, thought leadership and having demonstratable senior leader engagements on the business side. We are directly competing with Big4 / Strategy Houses such as McKinsey and BCG through our mix of strong consulting skills with data-driven diagnostic methods.
2. Transformation Consulting for Outsourcing – for larger outsourcing deals $100M+ we get involved in operating model, transformation, and financial engineering as well as digital strategies and benefits tracking.
3. Business design Consulting – for Technology implementation – driving the business case, transformation agenda and delivery leadership for business impact related technology implementations.
4. Rapid digital transformation: A mix of focused consulting sprints coupled with automation / AI deployments to incrementally improve our client’s business performance.

Position Overview

The role will have client delivery and practice development responsibility, supporting Wipro’s Digital Consulting business unit. The objective is to deliver and grow Digital Finance propositions in existing accounts, identify and build business with Wipro clients and attract new clients to Wipro based on Finance Transformation propositions.

This role will also have responsibility to support the qualification of opportunities with existing Client Partners and Account Director teams and to develop account growth strategies and execute on those strategies to win Digital Consulting projects.

Job Functions

Key tasks will include:

• Client delivery and/or direction of Finance Transformation projects which include, Process transformation, Technology enablement, financial compliance trends and Hyper-Automation transformation.
• To maintain effective working relationships with clients at all levels including Project team and strategic levels, CxO and CxO-1 where appropriate.
• Work closely with client partners, account directors, account managers, and other Wipro teams to develop existing and prospective accounts.
• Develop proposals, value propositions and thought leadership to create demand generation and business development activities based on industry trends, client situations or future visioning.
• To provide other staff in the team with effective leadership and motivation during client engagements and pursuits.

Requirements

• Proven experience in Finance transformation with a background in one or more related solutions below:

• Process: Able to lead month end close transformation, including knowledge of processes and tools, including reconciliation automation.
• Technology: Working knowledge of enabling technology to support Finance process and organisational transformation.
• ERP - SAP and Oracle, including S/4HANA Finance.
• Point solutions – Blackline, Trintech, Hyperion.
• Regulatory and Compliance: Understanding of impact of wider changes such as IFRS, Revenue Recognition and Lease Accounting on finance process, organisation and technologies, and guiding clients through the necessary changes.

• 10+ years’ experience with Finance Transformation consulting within a management consulting environment, or equivalent internal client role.

• Successful track record of achieving and completing transformation and advisory engagements within a major clients and geographies, across several industry sectors.

• Ability to work across IT and Business stakeholders to develop enterprise demand generation and value propositions.

• Design and Implementation of finance close enabling tools, e.g. BlackLine or Trintech, automated workflow, at the strategy and implementation levels to address issues facing month end close and reconciliation processes.

• Past experience of Oracle, SAP S/4HANA or other ERP solutions would be beneficial, especially in blueprinting design phase.

• An effective communicator, able to provide excellent leadership and motivation for the team whilst working effectively as a team player with the sales and delivery teams.

• Relevant qualifications including MBA, BA, Prince II, MSP, MBB, Agile, BB, GB, CIPS, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, Six Sigma, Lean.

Other Skills/Abilities
• Strong leadership skills.

• Strong communication, presentation, writing and inter-personal skills are critical.

• Experience as Finance Director/Controller of a division, unit, or area would be helpful.

Wipro Equal Opportunity Statement:

We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive workplace that provides equal opportunities to all persons regardless of their age, cultural background, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, or anything else.