Senior Financial Transformation Architect (Power Platform)

Guidehouse; United States; Remote; USD 98,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Mobility Stipend

Employee Referral Program

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking professionals for Finance & Accounting Consulting to help Defense and National Security clients optimize financial management processes. You will transform business processes, improve efficiency, ensure audit readiness, and drive performance metrics using Power BI, Power Apps, and other Microsoft tools.

The role emphasizes collaboration with senior stakeholders, data analytics, and developing automation to support federal standards, with up to 10% travel and a requirement

Qualifications

• Must obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, information systems, engineering, business analytics, or related field.
• 2 years of experience in business transformation, financial management, data analytics, audit or accounting.
• Experience with low-code/no-code platforms including SharePoint, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Tableau.
• Heightened attention to detail and the ability to create and edit technical and non-technical written work and graphical presentations.
• Experience leading client meetings and presenting recommendations to senior-level leadership.
• Experience documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Supporting transformative initiatives by collaborating with team members to partner with senior stakeholders to modernize financial processes through innovative solutions
• Leading the implementation of Microsoft 365 Power Platform tools, including Power Apps solutions, and presenting solutions to stakeholders for iterative feedback
• Creating performance metrics and interactive dashboards utilizing Microsoft Office Suite, Power Platform, SharePoint, Power BI, and more
• Identifying and implementing process improvements over financial tools and templates, and using technology to improve financial management
• Assessing existing business processes and procedures to identify pain points and areas for improvement. This includes coordination with process stakeholders to complete current-state assessments, review of relevant documentation to gain a thorough understanding, and evaluation and recommendation of future-state solutions
• Assisting in the creation of project plans to support the execution of end-to-end development efforts and ensuring that realistic timelines are set, communicated, and followed through, barring any significant holdups
• Communicating project task updates to senior-level executive clients on a regular basis and confirming shared understanding
• Collaborating with senior team members to embed financial management standards into the design and development of solutions, ensuring alignment with federal financial policies, audit readiness, and operational integrity
• Coordinating with other team members and/or building necessary skills to develop financial automation, data analytics, data visualization, and/or artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for financial management use cases. This may include: building financial metrics and supporting dashboards utilizing data visualization software (i.e., Tableau, Power BI, etc.); building low-code applications and user interfaces (using PowerApps, Power Platforms, Appian, ServiceNow, etc.); building AI models to process and analyze high volumes of structured and unstructured financial data (using Databricks, Snowflake, Palantir, Python, R, SQL, etc.)

Skills

Low-code platforms

SharePoint

Power BI

Power Apps

Power Automate

Tableau

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance

Master's in Business Analytics

Tools

SharePoint

Power BI

Power Apps

Tableau

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking professionals for Finance & Accounting Consulting to help Defense and National Security clients optimize financial management processes. You will transform business processes, improve efficiency, ensure audit readiness, and drive performance metrics using Power BI, Power Apps, and other Microsoft tools.

The role emphasizes collaboration with senior stakeholders, data analytics, and developing automation to support federal standards, with up to 10% travel and a requirement