Finance Director, North America Advisory Services - job 9 of 19

We are seeking a strong Finance Director to join our team. The NA Advisory Finance team applies a strategic finance advisory model with key stakeholders across muti-functional and cross-geographic teams, while applying data analytics to business and finance decisions, as well as performance measurement. We are an agile, highly visible team that collaborates across the NA region to enable business growth and effective decisioning through strategic thinking, financial expertise, insightful analytics, and thought leadership.

As a director, you will serve as a strategic finance partner to the leaders of our NA Advisory Services business and work closely with other global and cross-functional teams. You will collaborate with senior leadership to develop financial strategies and analytics that enable business decision making for long-term sustainable growth. This role will also support strategic decision making on investments and portfolio level tradeoffs through effective financial analytics. The position involves deriving important insights and effectively communicating with senior leaders across Finance and the business.  The ideal candidate will have a deep expertise in strategic finance, financial business analysis, preferably with a public company, and demonstrated experience collaborating with various functions.

This role sits on the NA Advisory Leadership Team, and requires interpersonal skills to cultivate partnerships across functions, regions, and teams, to drive thought leadership, interrogate business growth assumptions and successfully enact all planning, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end reporting processes, including presenting results and providing insights and analysis to senior business partners and executives.

Essential Functions

Strategic Advice and Business Partnership

• Establish strong partnerships with leaders of the various Advisory Services business and their respective Strategy & Ops teams to understand reporting needs, and provide strong finance support on revenue, expenses, and headcount
• Demonstrate a deep knowledge of the strategic priorities and issues confronting the business, including understanding service and product offerings, market dynamics, and underlying drivers
• Lead the building of business cases to support investments, go-to-market strategies and new service offering launch
• Combine observed patterns and trends to develop accurate forecasts and be able to triangulate and exercise good judgement and deep business acumen
• Work closely with sales teams to understand pipeline for products and services, and evaluate penetration, pricing, and opportunities for growth

Financial Management

• Lead the coordination, organization and execution of key financial planning activities including multi-year strategic planning, annual financial planning, quarterly forecasting and business reviews, pricing analysis, month-end analytics and management reporting
• Keenly monitor revenue and expense trends through driver-based analytics, and translate findings into succinct narratives for business executives with the aim of providing early signals on performance trends and actionable guidance to help drive desired business outcomes
• Understand and communicate business levers, and recommend measures to further improve financial results and business margins, while assessing financial risks and opportunities, and evaluating options to optimize return on investments
• Establish efficient processes and expand strong reporting and analytics capabilities across the broader Advisory business
• Work closely with the NA Advisory strategy and operations teams to monitor inventory of incentive funds and quasi-incentive funds, including managing allocation and utilization

Project Management

• Spearhead the identification and implementation of continuous process improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency and effectiveness around financial planning business decision making
• Execute on a variety of ad-hoc requests and lead special projects
• Provide decision support to senior finance leadership on investment / project decisions as well as strategic organizational and functional developments

Business Engagement

• Integration of finance into the business, and develop business acumen depth
• Tailored, effective presentations, analysis and dialogue with each business partner
• Dialogue around budget and spend to optimize budget and investments, return-on-investment discipline
• Robust toolkit to help manage the business and enable management decision making

People and Stakeholder Management

• Mentor and professionally develop team members, including instilling best practices
• Cultivate strong relationships and communicate effectively
• Influence and collaborate across key global and regional business partners and multi-functional stakeholders on a variety of deliverables and activities

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.