Manager: Finance Transformation

Bdo South Africa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bdo South Africa is seeking a Finance Consultant Manager within the Finance Transformation division. You will lead and deliver client engagements, drive sales and practice development, and collaborate across geographies to design innovative business solutions for moving from current to future business state.

Key duties include leading project planning, tracking progress, managing budgets, and coordinating documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering client engagements in a finance/consulting context.
• Ability to design and implement business solutions for transitioning to future state.
• Strong collaboration with partners across the firm and geographies.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning sessions with goals, timelines, tasks and resources.
• Monitor progress and address issues to ensure on-time deliverables.
• Use tracking tools to coordinate project elements and generate updates.
• Organise status meetings and distribute meeting minutes.
• Identify constraints and define solutions to keep projects on track.
• Design risk management plans to minimize disruptions.
• Oversee project documentation and contracts; manage budgets and resources.
• Maintain stakeholder engagement with project plans, schedules, and reporting.
• Report progress and identify improvements to Advisory Leadership and FTS Lead.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Business development

Client engagement

Power BI

Tools

Power BI

Job description

As a Finance Consultant Manager within our Finance Transformation division, you will report to the Lead of Finance Transformation Services (FTS).

Your focus will be on the management and delivery of client engagements, as well as sales and practice development. You will focus on working with our leading clients and their executive teams to design and define innovative business solutions to respond to transition from the current to the future business state. You will collaborate with partners across the firm and across geographies to ensure a holistic and cross-functional, transformative approach.

• Contributing to the growth in partnerships with key technology partners.
• Ability to use Power BI, a visualization tool to build dashboards

Additional Duties:

Project Delivery and Management

• Lead project planning sessions to set project goals and objectives, determine timelines, define tasks, and outline resources necessary to successfully complete the project
• Monitor the progress of projects, including addressing issues that may arise and ensuring project deliverables are completed on time
• Use an appropriate tracking tool to coordinate different elements of the project
• Organise regular status and review meetings as necessary, including generating and distributing meeting minutes
• Gather resources, identify potential constraints based on activities and timeframes, and define solutions to manage any constraints
• Design a risk management plan to minimize foreseeable disruptions to the project
• Oversee all incoming and outgoing project documentation, including managing contracts
• Manage a portfolio and resources to ensure stakeholder engagement through project plans, schedules, project tracking, budget and resource allocation, Gantt charts, and workload analysis
• Report regularly to management and relevant stakeholders on the progress of the project, challenges, resolutions, and alterations
• Conduct project reviews, including creating detailed reports for Advisory Leadership and the FTS Lead, and identifying areas for future improvement

Quality Management

• Ensure that projects are delivered within the agreed timelines and in accordance with agreed quality standards
• Consider and recommend enhancements for project performance and processes and initiate remedial action where defects are evident

Business Case Development

• Provide input into the product vision and roadmap for FTS by aligning to FTS's overall strategy, commercial business unit requirements and key opportunities

Product Development Oversight

• Participate in the conceptual solution design process to make recommendations to enhance solutions that solve complex business problems.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a liaison between key stakeholders such internally and externally to ensure that business development and project management requirements are being met

Budget Management

• Manage own client account/s within approved budget and profitability targets
• Guide and assist other staff on how to manage their client accounts with regards to approved budget