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About the Consulting Team

Deloitte Consulting has always been about helping our clients and our people move forward. It’s important that we do the same for our business: celebrating how far we’ve come, and always preparing to take our next, big steps towards a global future. We’re moving and evolving on our journey to be an undisputed leader in consulting, globally and in all major markets. Together, we will achieve our aspirations through relentless focus on our Shared Strategic Agenda. The Global Consulting Platform is working globally across our practices and borders – giving our business, clients and people the global experience that’s essential in today’s world.

Main Purpose of Job:

Advise on innovative ways that the Performance Management process and insight delivery effectiveness can be implemented and delivered, leveraging Finance in a Digital World. This includes Core modernization with cloud, process robotics and visualization. 

Exponential solutions including advanced analytics, cognitive computing, in-memory computing and blockchain.

Roles & Responsibilities 

• Monitor team – ensure capability and capacity matches the pipeline
• Understand F&P market trends considering sub-offerings being finance transformation, digital finance transformation, operational finance & business finance (note that not all will be required). Specialisation in particular areas is a requirement
• Ability to strategically and practically bring finance advisory and technology enablement together to solve real client problems

Specialised Capability:

Finance Transformation & Digital Finance Transformation : Advise and implement strategic choices to help improve the finance function. This includes supporting new businesses models and capabilities, and the identification of opportunities to transform the finance organization leveraging digital technologies.

Operational finance experience:  Advise and implement on solutions to drive the efficiency and effectiveness of finance operations such as Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Close Consolidate and Report. Understand and advise how robotics can be used to automate transaction processing, data manipulation and communication across the finance function.

Business finance:  Advise on improving finance business partnering & process transformation. Advise and implement FP&A, advanced finance analytics, enterprise performance management, costing & profitability, and advanced statistical forecasting through associated technologies and asset-based solutions.

Technological focus areas include:

• Anaplan
• Workday Adaptive Planning / Adaptive Insights
• Blackline
• OneStream
• SAP EPM solutions
• Oracle EPM

• Relevant Bachelors and Advanced Degree, or
• CA (SA)

Key Competencies required:

Technical Competencies

• Manage Efficiency of Service Delivery
• Manage billability and productivity ratio of resources
• Ensure proper internal governance and processes are adhered to
• Establish relationships and understanding of the clients business and needs to Identify, qualify and unlock net new revenue opportunities
• Project management experience and capabilities

Behavioural Competencies

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Sound problem solving ability

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.