Global Services Finance Director, Enterprise Services

The Boston Consulting Group GmbH; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Global Finance Director to oversee Enterprise Services and digital products. This role involves strategic finance leadership, budget oversight, and collaboration with senior management to drive financial initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive finance experience and strong analytical and communication skills, thriving in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years related finance experience.
• Experience with finance systems and advanced analytical tools.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Enterprise Services and digital product portfolio.
• Partner closely with ES leadership for financial planning.
• Act as finance business partner for Procurement and Real Estate.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication

Critical Thinking

Problem Solving

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics

MBA

Tools

Oracle

SAP

MS Excel

Snowflake

Job description

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

The Global Finance Director – Enterprise Services will serve as the finance lead overseeing Enterprise Services (ES) and ES digital product portfolio. Our ES and Digital Product teams provide the capabilities that enable automation and scale for our functions as well as productivity to our broader workforce. This is an area of high growth and investment governed by our internal Investment Committee. This Finance Director role provides both strategic and operational finance leadership in a fast-evolving, tech-enabled services landscape. You will partner closely with ES leadership to support several ES service lines and oversee ES consolidation. The role will engage actively in operating model and org design changes, investments decisions, cost saving opportunities, and multi-year financial planning. The role reports into the Global Senior Finance Director – Enterprise Services.

Enterprise Services (ES) is an evolving BCG organization predominantly focused on providing shared services activities to every part of BCG. The landscape of ES is constantly growing and as of today ES organization includes:

• Specialist services (data, hub management, meetings & events, real estate, travel, procurement)
• Larger scale services (global finance operations services, Executive & Administrative Assistant Support, BI&A)
• Case-team services (design studio, global production, language services, knowledge sources)
• Transversal teams providing support to ES service lines

This position will also be responsible for being the direct finance business partner to our Procurement, Global Real Estate and Travel service lines. This involves direct budget oversight, supporting any business cases development for the Investment Committee approval, partnering closely with procurement on any contract renewals/negotiations, and acting as thought partner to the leaders of respective functional areas.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting/economics and/or an MBA
• A minimum of 8-10 years related finance experience
• Good understanding & experience of working with finance systems (Oracle/SAP, Accounts Payables, BIR data universe, etc.)
• Strong analytical skills, incl. proficiency with MS Excel. Experience of working with advanced analytical tools (e.g., Snowflake) is a plus, but not required
• Excellent communication skills – both oral and written, with the ability to adjust to multiple audiences and the confidence to present to and influence senior management.
• Critical Thinking and problem solving – proven ability to work through complex problems and analyses in providing a thoughtful, concrete solution
• Motivation and self-drive–excited by tackling challenges and pro-actively finding new ways to provide value to senior leadership
• Highly organized and proactive approach to managing work in a dynamic environment
• A passion for working in a collaborative team environment.

Who You'll Work With

The Functional Finance Team is an integral part of the worldwide Finance organization providing insight supported by meaningful and accurate financial information to help guide the decision-making process and provide truly strategic business partnering to the Functions. The team partners with BCG’s Global CFO and the Finance Leadership team, the Financial Planning & Analysis team, the Operations Leadership Team (OLT) including leadership of our Global Functions, and local, regional & global finance colleagues across the organization.

Additional info

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Building relationships to establish and maintain a “seat at the table” with senior management as a true thought partner.
• Listening, analyzing, framing, and influencing
• Building deep expertise in the financials, proactively linking investments to business impact and value delivered.
• Supporting financial planning and analysis (e.g. cost trends, business cases, org design), using sound judgment to influence senior decision-making with a clear view of priorities and the broader context.
• Acting as a strategic advisor, partnering with stakeholders to define problems, deliver meaningful analysis, and propose actionable solutions.
• Managing multiple deliverables in a highly dynamic environment across cross-functional teams and competing priorities
• Working as part of a team, building consensus
• Working in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment, applying sound judgment and flexibility to support the delivery of globally scalable ES, in line with our values and culture.
• Applying technical skills to navigate complex financial systems, extract and analyze data across platforms, and resolve inconsistencies or ambiguity independently.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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