Project Leader or Associate Director, CFO Excellence

California Jobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Project Leader or Associate Director for its CFO Excellence team. This role offers a unique opportunity to partner with clients in transforming their financial operations and driving strategic change. You will leverage your extensive finance expertise to lead impactful projects, guiding organizations through complex challenges and enhancing their capabilities. Join a collaborative and innovative environment where your contributions will significantly shape the future of finance. If you are passionate about making a difference and possess a deep understanding of financial effectiveness, this role is for you.

Benefits

Zero dollar health insurance premiums

Low copays for doctor visits

Dental coverage with orthodontia benefits

Vision insurance for glasses and contacts

Gym membership reimbursement

Fully vested retirement contributions

Generous paid time off

Paid parental leave

Family benefits for surrogacy and adoption

Annual office closure between Christmas and New Year

Qualifications

• 8-15 years of finance experience with a focus on transformation.
• Proven experience in finance technology and process optimization.
• Advanced planning and forecasting skills are an asset.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to tackle complex finance challenges.
• Lead teams to drive results and reshape business strategies.
• Contribute to BCG's intellectual capital and thought leadership.

Skills

Finance Transformation

CFO Advisory

Financial Effectiveness

Process Re-engineering

Data Architecture

Strategic Thinking

Communication Skills

Education

MBA

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

Project Leader or Associate Director, CFO Excellence

Locations: Chicago | Boston | Atlanta | Austin | San Francisco | Mountain View | Brooklyn | Dallas | Denver | Detroit | Houston | Los Angeles | Miami | Minneapolis | Nashville | Summit | New York | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | San Diego | Seattle | Washington

Who We Are

Our Center for CFO Excellence ( CFOx ) is where innovation meets impact, serving as BCG's global hub for expertise in the CFO domain. Our CFOx team partner s with CFOs to tackle their most pressing challenges—reimagining finance operating models for peak efficiency, unlocking the power of advanced analytics and AI, and driving transformative value across the organization. With unmatched experience across industries, our team helps finance leaders modernize systems, enhance transparency, and position their finance functions as catalysts for strategic success. Join us to shape the future of finance and make a lasting impact.

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.

Practice Area

The Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice (CFS) combines rich expertise in corporate strategy concepts with a management methodology designed to create sustainable value-add for BCG clients. Our team provides extensive experience in planning and implementing corporate transactions including merger & acquisition deals and divestitures. We deliver analytic approaches that allow senior management to effectively deal with challenges such as generating growth, managing a portfolio of assets, forming a world-class finance organization, understanding risk, and responding to the way capital markets assess companies today. Taking swift action in turning around and restructuring a business for long-term survival is also part of our offering.

What You'll Do

BCG's Corporate Finance and Strategy practice is looking for a Project Leader or Associate Director in CFO Excellence who will partner with clients to take on their most difficult challenges, transform mindsets, reimagine businesses, and build capabilities that enable organizations to achieve sustainable advantage .

As an Expert Project Leader, you will be integrated into a BCG team and leverage your deep expertise on projects that reshape businesses. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for large and complex “modules” within a BCG project and may lead small but high-impact teams to drive results for our clients. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for your recommendations, while also collaborating with colleagues on complex client issues. Your expertise will be valued by senior clients and you will help build and contribute to BCG's intellectual capital while spending significant time supporting and executing case work.

Associate Directors:

As an Expert Associate Director, you will apply your deep expertise to generate value for our clients while building and contributing to BCG's intellectual capital. Your role in projects can vary from team management to team advisor. You will leverage your expertise to add insight and drive clients toward recommendations and you will be viewed as a trusted advisor by senior clients. You will help scope and structure the work, onboard team members, and provide guidance throughout the project. Expert Associate Directors contribute significantly to BCG's intellectual capital, generate interest and excitement about their expertise area, and coach and mentor others.

Our Expert Consulting Track

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG's ability to successfully meet our clients' demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to bring the ‘best of BCG' to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting.

What You'll Bring

• 8-15 years of work experience, with a deep focus in finance across topics such as financial effectiveness, CFO advisory, FP&A, process and policy, technology, operations, organizational structure and strategy, and/or transformation
• 4+ years of consulting experience
• Deep expertise in finance, ideally in a Big 4 advisory/consulting role with a focus in finance transformation, or a former consultant who joined the finance function of a major corporation
• MBA preferred; Chartered Accountant (CA)/Certified Public Accountant (CPA) credentials are a plus
• Proven experience working on finance transformation programs including: operating model redesign, process re-engineering, technology enablement, shared services, finance technology, budgeting, management reporting and Business Intelligence, core accounting, tax, treasury, internal audit, AI, and machine learning
• Advanced skills in planning & forecasting are an asset
• Experience in finance technology stacks, process optimization, and data architecture to deliver scalable and efficient solutions
• Superior problem-solving skills and ability to work well under pressure in a demanding environment
• Ability to think strategically/end-to-end
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; particularly in developing PowerPoint content

Additional info

Travel is anticipated (~50%) and will vary based on specific project locations.

BCG is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to a policy of administering all employment decisions and actions without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

The first-year base compensation for this role is:

In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution. BCG also provides a market leading benefits package described below.

At BCG, we are committed to offering a comprehensive benefit program that includes everything our employees and their families need to be well and live life to the fullest. We pay the full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees - and their eligible family members.*That's zero dollars in premiums taken from employee paychecks. All our plans provide best in class coverage:

• Zero dollar ($0) health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children
• Low $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits and prescriptions for generic drugs
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities
• Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not
• Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Years
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement
• *Employees, spouses, and children are covered at no cost. Employees share in the cost of domestic partner coverage.

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