Director, Finance Transformation

Accordion is a financial consulting firm that partners with private equity to drive value creation. The Director of Finance Transformation will lead strategic advisory initiatives and process improvements for CFOs of private equity portfolio companies, focusing on optimizing finance functions and enhancing operational effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with other team members to serve clients within the office of the CFO of private equity portfolio companies, in the areas of finance strategy and processes improvements such as:
• Lead finance function diagnostics: assessing an organization’s people, process and technology to come up with recommendations and a value-creation roadmap
• Design and execute process enhancements across the following process areas: lead-to-cash, source-to-pay, record-to-report and FP&A
• Design future state operating platforms (organization structure, finance processes, technology stack)
• Develop implementation plans for initiatives on a strategic roadmap, supported by quantified benefits/value and qualitative substantiation
• Manage execution of plans to optimize technology, drive process automation (within ERPs or leveraging bespoke technologies and AI)
• Set up and drive transformation program governance to support multi-workstream engagements
• Lead change management across multiple functions and workstreams
• Determine and measure the ROI of improvement initiatives, putting in place risk mitigation strategies to support successful realization targeted benefits
• Bring deep financial expertise and leading practices to engagements
• Manage multi-workstream transformation programs at a single client, or manage multiple smaller projects at different clients – under the guidance of Accordion Managing Directors and/or Senior Directors
• Manage junior resources (Vice Presidents, Associates, or Analysts)
• Interact and build relationships with C-level personnel at portfolio companies as well as representatives from private equity sponsors
• Assist in growing the firm by identifying and driving business development activities – coordinating proposals across multiple practices
• Take a lead role on internal firm initiatives to enhance our ability to serve clients and continually improve our internal capabilities
• Travel to client site as needed