- Job Title Senior Consultant, Digital Advisory
National in scope and local in focus, MNP isone of Canada’s largest professional service firms providing client-focusedaccounting, consulting, tax, and digital services to clients. Founded in 1958,MNP today is a CAD 2 billion+ organization with 10,000+ employees and 150+offices across Canada. MNP prides itself on being an ‘advisor’ to its clients(individuals, businesses, and organizations), focusing on their success bydelivering personalized strategies and solutions that help clients reachtheirfull potential — wherever business takes them.
MNP set up MNP Spark, its Global CapabilityCentre (GCC), in Bengaluru in May 2025 with a focus on enabling the Firm drivegrowth, efficiency, customer delight, and innovation, by leveraging high-qualitytalent in India. MNP Spark is like any other MNP region/office — front facing,client focused but working with all MNP regions in Canada to deliver services.
Help build a practice, not just filla seat. Digital Advisory in India is being built from the ground up, working asone team with MNP’s leadership in Canada. As an early member, you’ll shape howthe practice works: the methods it uses, the assets it reuses, and thestandards it holds itself to. The report templates, business case models, andprompt libraries you create will become the practice’s way of working.
Do real advisory work for real decision-makers. You’ll work directly with Canadian clients in the private and publicsectors, not behind an onshore buffer. Your analysis and recommendations willbe used by the people deciding where their organizations invest.
Build with AI, not just talk about it. Many advisory roles stop at the strategy deck. Here you’ll also helpclients get from idea to working prototype in their own environment, usingMicrosoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and leading LLM platforms. You’ll grow bothas a consultant and as a practitioner, which is a rare and valuable combinationright now.
Learn inside a large, established firm. MNP is one of Canada’s leading national accounting, tax, and businessconsulting firms. You get the stability, client base, and colleagues of anestablished firm, with the pace and ownership of a new team.
Grow with a clear path. Thepractice has a defined progression from Analyst to Manager. As the team grows,you’ll take on more ownership of workstreams, client relationships, and thedevelopment of the Analysts who join after you.
Responsibilities
As a key member of the Digital Advisory team atMNP Spark, the Senior Consultant leads workstreams on client engagements, fromshaping a client’s digital and AI strategy, to building the business case,guiding solution selection, and managing the transformation. The SeniorConsultant owns the client conversation at working level, structures difficultdecisions, and stands behind the recommendation, working as a peer with SeniorAdvisors and Partners.
The Senior Consultant is accountable for theoutcomes of the workstream: the quality of its recommendations anddeliverables, its scope, budget, and timeline, the client relationship atworking level, and the development of the Consultants and Analysts assigned toit.
The role also carries a hands-on AI prototypingcomponent that bridges Advisory and Solutions. The Senior Consultant decideswith the client which use cases to prove, shapes the solution approach, directsand reviews the build, builds the more complex elements personally, and isaccountable for pilot results and the recommendation on whether to scale. Therole is for an experienced consultant who has taken AI seriously enough tobuild with it. It is not a software engineering, architecture, data science, ITsupport, managed services, BPO, or pure project management role.
Digital and AI strategy
- Lead digitaland AI strategy workstreams, setting the assessment approach and directing theteam’s analysis of maturity, opportunities, and use cases.
- Leaddiscovery workshops and stakeholder interviews with Canadian clientsindependently, including with senior executives.
- Own thestrategic roadmap, investment prioritization, and governance approach, andpresent the recommendation to client leadership.
- Advise onthe practical side of adoption, including data readiness, privacy, security,governance, and change management, and manage client expectations honestly,including when the right answer is “not yet”.
Digital transformation
- Leadtransformation workstreams from planning through delivery, including operatingmodel and process redesign, change management, and adoption.
- Define themeasures of success for the transformation and hold the workstream tomeasurable business outcomes, not only technology deployment.
Business cases and reports
- Own thebusiness case: set the assumptions with the client, test the options, and standbehind the recommendation.
- Own thequality of client reports and assessments. Write the key sections, and reviewand strengthen the work of Consultants and Analysts before it reaches theclient.
- Buildexecutive narratives that lead senior stakeholders to a clear decision.
Solution selection and decision-making
- Leadtechnology and AI solution selection, including defining requirements with theclient, designing the evaluation framework, running vendor assessments, andfacilitating the client’s decision.
- Guide publicsector clients through selection in a way that meets procurement, transparency,and accountability requirements.
- Structurecomplex decisions so that senior stakeholders can see the options, trade-offs,risks, and recommendation clearly, and act on them.
Project and engagement management
- Manageengagement workstreams end to end, with accountability for scope, workplan,budget, timelines, risks, and quality.
- Assign andprioritize work across Consultants and Analysts, and coordinate with Canadiancolleagues and client stakeholders.
- Reportprogress to clients and Partners, manage scope changes, and elevate early whensomething is off track.
AI prototyping and solution delivery
- Decide withthe client which use cases to prototype and define the success measures foreach pilot.
- Shape thesolution approach for each use case, including data sources, integration,security, and human oversight, so that the client can realistically adopt,govern, and maintain it.
- Direct andreview the build by Consultants, and build the more complex componentspersonally, using prompt engineering, Copilot and Copilot Studio agents, AgentBuilder automations, and leading LLM tools.
- Own pilotresults and advise the client on whether to scale, adjust, or stop.
People, network, and practice leadership
- Guide,coach, and review the work of Consultants and Analysts, and contribute to theirperformance feedback and development.
- Contributeto proposals, estimates, and solution design for new engagements, and identifyfollow-on opportunities with existing clients.
- Build anactive network across the digital and AI ecosystem, including vendors,partners, industry bodies, and the Bangalore technology community, andrepresent MNP Digital at industry events, briefings, and forums.
- Lead thedevelopment of reusable practice assets and set the standard for how they areused.
Requirements
Skills
Professionalexperience
- 5 to 8 yearsof experience, including at least 3 years in consulting, digital strategy, ordigital transformation roles with direct client ownership.
- Experienceleading a workstream, including its scope, budget, timeline, and team, not onlycontributing to one.
- A trackrecord of business cases and reports that led to client decisions.
- Experienceleading or substantially shaping a technology or vendor selection.
- Delivery ofat least one AI or automation solution that reached real users, such as aCopilot deployment, a low-code automation, or an AI pilot.
- Experienceguiding the work of junior team members.
Consultingskills (the core of the role)
- Strongproblem structuring and hypothesis-driven analysis, including framing theproblem for the team.
- Confidentworkshop facilitation with senior client stakeholders, including executives.
- Executive-qualitywriting, with the ability to build the argument as well as the presentation.
- Strongfinancial and commercial reasoning, including setting and defending businesscase assumptions.
- Soundjudgement, with the ability to make a recommendation and defend it.
AIprototyping skills (demonstrated, practical capability)
- Demonstrated,hands-on use of LLM tools to solve real business problems for clients.
- Workingknowledge of prompt engineering, including testing and evaluating outputsagainst defined criteria.
- Hands-onexperience with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, or comparable platforms.
- Understandingof what it takes to run an AI solution safely in a client environment,including data access, security, privacy, and governance.
- Awareness ofthe AI and digital vendor landscape and how to evaluate it.
- Scripting(Python, SQL) is an advantage, not a requirement.
Communicationand leadership
- Excellentspoken and written English, with the ability to lead client conversationsindependently, including with senior executives.
- Ability totranslate between business stakeholders and technical teams in both directions.
- Ability tocoach and develop junior team members and give clear, constructive feedback.
EducationalQualifications
- Bachelor’s degree inEngineering (B.E. / B.Tech) or Business (BBA / B.Com). An MBA is preferred.