Accordion
Director
London. Posted 10 months ago
The role
The Director will serve clients within the office of the CFO of private equity portfolio companies. You will focus on finance strategy and process improvements including capability assessments, operating model design, and technology optimization.
What you will do
- Serve clients within the office of the CFO of private equity portfolio companies
- Perform capability and maturity assessments
- Design operating models
- Optimize technology and create roadmaps
- Enhance processes for order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report and FP&A
- Assess and recommend change management processes
- Drive initiatives to increase effectiveness, reduce costs and improve profit/shareholder value
- Develop and implement KPI dashboards and tracking tools
- Manage multiple client engagements and client expectations
- Identify and drive business development activities
Required qualifications
- Minimum 8+ years of relevant professional experience working in a client serving role at a top-tier accounting or financial advisory firm, and/or mix of client service and private industry experience
- Proven experience successfully managing multiple projects at the same time
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
- Strong and up-to date knowledge of strategic finance best practices
- Subject matter expert in financial business processes including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, FP&A
- Extensive expertise related to the design and implementation of strategies, processes and technology
- Experience designing and enhancing financial processes including Finance Automation and Technology deployment
- Experience performing financial and operational assessments
- Experience driving strategic finance transformations
- Experience working with Private Equity
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Strong client service mindset
Nice to have
- MBA is a plus
About the company
Accordion is a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm and private equity's value creation partner. They provide financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI to support the office of the CFO.