Grant Thornton Looking for Finance Transformation Senior Associate at Charlotte, NC, United States Full Time

Job Description

Grant Thornton LLP (Grant Thornton) is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the world’s leading organizations of independent audit, tax and advisory firms. We’ve never been a typical professional services firm. We put people first, and that is what sets us apart.
The marketplace is evolving. Customer and employee expectations are changing. What worked yesterday may not work as well tomorrow. Grant Thornton’s Advisory professionals help companies stay ahead of the game with bold thinking, big ideas and progressive strategies.
Our Advisory teams apply their deep experience and global footprint to challenge the status quo and develop custom strategies that work for you. With a focus on pragmatism, our outside-in, customer-led approach facilitates the agility and innovation necessary to be a future-ready organization. Our services support you wherever you are in your business cycle — whether you’re looking at a transaction to propel your company forward, focusing on developing and implementing the right controls to mitigate risk, or advancing your company’s finance and technology infrastructure to match your aspirations.
Grant Thornton is currently looking for a Finance Transformation Senior Associate.
Position Summary
Adapting to a constantly changing business environment requires efficient finance functions with the right technology and protocols in place that not only complete the task at hand, but also report out information that is useful to the business. Our Finance Transformation practice can help clients transform their finance and operations functions, both process-related and reporting, as well as design and implement sustainable models that streamline operations, and comply to business needs.
The Finance Transformation Senior Associate is responsible for business process analysis, requirements definition efforts for remediating gaps, cost and cycle time analysis/remediation, and the communication and change management required to ensure success. This role looks beyond just control points and focuses on Finance Process Optimization changes that achieve necessary business transformation.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Utilize previous consulting and industry experience to help companies set and achieve their long-term goals.
• Perform accurate analysis and designing effective solutions to a variety of client issues.
• Work directly with clients to address their issues and acting as the day to day relationship contact.
• Work closely with Grant Thornton teams to promptly identify and resolve client problems or issues.
• Develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships in order to provide maximum value to our clients through the delivery of our full solution.
• Team with partners and senior managers on proposals and business development calls.
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization).
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• A minimum of 2 years of financial management and/or consulting or experience
• Experience working in financial services in a consulting capacity, with a focus on Finance
• Strong analytical skills and ability to perform quantitative analysis and develop business cases
• Process analysis, Reporting & Business Intelligence, Data Analysis & Reconciliation.
• Working knowledge of Close-the-books, Chart-of-Accounts, Treasury, Financial Planning and Analysis & Financial Benchmarking
• Knowledge of banking operations and related regulatory issues
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and simultaneous projects in a rapidly growing practice.
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills
• Travel Percentage: 60% – 80%

REWARDS AND BENEFITS
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