Finance and Tax Consultant (Business Development Consultant) at Bellforte Consulting

Job Summary

• Your role will be to advise and assist our clients in optimising their finance function and its underlying processes and systems.
• You will be involved in performance improvement projects to provide tailor-made creative and pragmatic solutions to address complex problems in areas such as:
  • The strategic positioning of finance within the organisation
  • Process improvement within finance
  • Corporate performance management
  • Cost and profitability management
  • Shared services and outsourcing
  • Financial systems selection and deployment
• In addition to project delivery, your role will also include delivering presentations and courses and contributing to thought leadership and business development in your specialist area.

Qualification/Requirements

• A Degree in any relevant field.
• 5-10 years' experience in human resources, 3 of which must have been in a structured consulting firm.
• Strong business development skills with a proven track record of converting prospects to paying clients.
• Experience in proposal/bid preparation.
• Excellent people and client management skills.
• Strong project management skills.

You need to have a professional experience of at least 4 years acquired in one or more of the following areas:

• Consulting within the finance function
• Financial business controlling (in a manufacturing or services environment)
• Financial audit

You also need to be able to demonstrate solid and relevant project experience in at least one of the following areas:

• Finance function reorganisation and process improvement
• Planning, budgeting and management reporting
• Cost management
• Financial systems selection and implementation
• Experience with the financial modules of SAP/ORACLE or with CPM applications is a plus

In order to be successful in this function, you require the following additional knowledge and skills:

• Good overall understanding of the finance function roles and activities.
• Excellent project management skills
• Commercial acumen and business development skills