Cost Improvement Senior Consultant

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

Help clients improve performance, manage costs, and operate more effectively. As a Senior Consultant in Deloitte's Performance & Cost Improvement (PCI) team, within the Performance Improvement & Restructuring (PI&R) offering, you'll bring structure to complex business challenges and help turn insights into practical action. If you enjoy analytical problem-solving, collaborative delivery, and work that supports better business outcomes, this role offers a strong opportunity to grow your consulting career.

Recruiting for this role ends on 08/28/2026.

As a Senior Consultant on the Performance & Cost Improvement team, you will be responsible for helping clients evaluate and execute initiatives that improve cost structure, cash flow, and enterprise value.

• Analyze operational, financial, and market data to identify value creation, cost optimization, and performance improvement opportunities
• Support the development of business cases, pricing analyses, and financial models tailored to client objectives
• Plan and support transformation engagements across industries, including coordinating work streams, managing scope changes, and tracking progress against engagement objectives
• Work with client stakeholders to assess issues, develop strategic recommendations, and prepare deliverables that align to engagement requirements
• Serve as a liaison between business needs and technology-enabled solutions to support implementation and execution
• Contribute to proposal development and other practice-building activities, as requested

PI&R defines and leads enterprise Board and C‑Suite agendas for non‑distressed, underperforming, and distressed clients to improve margins, operational and financial performance, navigate financial difficulties, and improve cash flow to fund critical transformations.

Within PI&R, the Performance & Cost Improvement team helps clients identify, evaluate, and implement enterprise-wide cost reduction and margin improvement opportunities. They address financial pressure, improve operating performance, and stabilize business results. The team supports initiatives such as cost reduction, margin improvement, working capital and liquidity improvement, post-merger integration and synergy capture, operating model transformation, business model transformation, and analytics-enabled performance improvement.

PCI focuses on structural, enterprise-wide changes designed to support both immediate performance goals and long-term profitable growth.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of experience in management consulting in operations improvement, transformation, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) integration, or business process reengineering focused on cost reduction or growth strategy
• 4+ years of experience in financial analysis using data from multiple sources to assess value creation opportunities
• 4+ years of experience developing models using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Tableau, or similar tools
• 2+ years of experience supporting mergers and acquisition (M&A) or other M&A service delivery
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

• Advanced degree
• Experience serving corporate and private equity clients
• Experience developing business cases, pricing analyses, or complex financial analyses
• Experience creating executive-level presentations and client deliverables using Microsoft PowerPoint…