Managing Director, Office CFO — Finance Strategy

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Practice Overview

Ankura Office of the CFO™ (Ankura OCFO™) empowers CFO success through comprehensive, customized solutions that enhance business performance, drive operational efficiency, convert data into insights, and position finance as a strategic partner.

Role Overview:

Ankura OCFO professionals serve as trusted partners, consistently delivering long-term value and results to a diverse clientele, ranging from middle-market enterprises to Fortune 500 companies. Ankura OCFO works with both private equity firms and corporate companies, across all industries. Members of the Ankura Office of the CFO team embody a collaborative spirit and entrepreneurial mindset, fostering ongoing growth and innovation in our collective efforts.

The selected candidate is ideally located in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, or Atlanta though other locations may be considered.

The Managing Director’s primary focus will be to drive solutions for the following areas:

• Ankura Quality of FinanceTM:
  Assess Finance organization’s vision and strategy, operating model and organization design, processes and technology; design and implement execution plans

• Financial Planning & Analysis:
  Establish business partnering through strategic long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting and scenario modelling all enabled by technology

• Reporting:
  Design management reporting packages with focus on key performance indicators to facilitate management and achievement of financial goals and targets i.e., EBITDA

• Data Analytics & Visualization:
  Leverage analytics and visualization tools to influence decision-making and predict business outcomes with data-driven insights

• Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Optimization:
  Drive working capital improvements and greater transparency into cash flow reporting and forecasting

• Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency:
  Optimize Finance and Accounting processes, operations and service delivery model while managing overall cost of Finance

• Transaction Preparation and Execution:
  Support Day One readiness and execution of a transaction or liquidity event and manage any transition service agreements or business integrations

• Interim Management:
  Fill an interim or surge resource need specifically in a leadership or executive role; provide solutions to leverage human capital and experience

• Financial
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Address audit committee and board concerns, remediate accounting, manage enterprise risk profile

Responsibilities:

• Manage the OCFO client service teams in designing and implementing holistic solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness in finance organizations

• Improve decision-making, enable business partnering, and drive value

• Collaborate with client, colleagues, other professionals, and other stakeholders to achieve engagement objectives

• Support sale of client engagements, including help with scoping and pricing work

• Develop project work plans and effectively deliver engagements

• Manage the development and presentation of reports, analyses, presentations, and other client deliverables

• Participate in business development, marketing, recruiting, and practice development activities

• Demonstrate the highest degree of professionalism, ethics, quality, and integrity

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree:
  Master’s degree or MBA preferred

• Minimum of 10 years of prior work experience, in a financial management consulting firm

• Expertise in financial modeling and analysis

• Experience leading and managing teams through solution planning, design, and implementation with a focus on delivery quality

• Strong knowledge of core finance and accounting processes

• General knowledge of financial ERP systems, BI technologies, and other finance performance management tools

• Expertise in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point

• Strong intellectual curiosity and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex unstructured information rapidly and develop insights and recommendations

• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to define, influence, and drive change at executive levels and across the broader community of stakeholders

• Expands relationships to highest level…