Global Finance Excellence Senior Manager, Risk, Policy & Projects - The Boston Consulting Group
Boston, MA
About the Job
You will be a member of the Finance Excellence (FinEx) team, whose core purpose is to enable and inspire our Worldwide team of Finance professionals to deliver best in class finance solutions in a scalable, consistent, and harmonized way, in an evolving business environment, by:
• Operating with a harmonized set of processes, policies, and tools,
• Building enhanced skills, capabilities, and community,
• Delivering a compelling EVP that nurtures top Finance talent, and
• Innovating, incubating & unlocking new solutions for the function, where needed, globally.
In this position you will fulfill a role in:
• Shaping global standards, designing, and implementing process & policy measures,
• Driving continuous standardization and improving quality, and
• Securing and protecting BCG's business operations.
KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The FinEx Senior Manager is responsible for the management of various initiatives including:
• Operating with a harmonized set of processes, policies, and tools,
• Building enhanced skills, capabilities, and community,
• Delivering a compelling EVP that nurtures top Finance talent, and
• Innovating, incubating & unlocking new solutions for the function, where needed, globally.
In this position you will fulfill a role in:
• Shaping global standards, designing, and implementing process & policy measures,
• Driving continuous standardization and improving quality, and
• Securing and protecting BCG's business operations.
KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The FinEx Senior Manager is responsible for the management of various initiatives including:
- Organize and lead roll-out of new and updated Finance policies, focusing on both change management and implementation (where appropriate)
- Help identify policy gaps that require attention
- Assist policy owner in the drafting of any new policies, gathering and incorporating input from stakeholders.
- Ensure new policies and updates adhere to policy governance model.
- Develop roll-out plans, including awareness campaigns, working with local teams to test and roll-out in pilot systems prior to global implementation.
- Manage, track, and communicate status of roll-out.
- Develop tools to enable adherence and monitor compliance.
- Policy Governance
- Coordinate quarterly meetings of policy governance committee to review and prioritize policy portfolio.
- Review changes and provide input to Finance policies as required.
- Maintain central repository for Finance Policies.
- Oversight of WW Finance Microsite Policy pages and policies to be placed on Global Policy site.
- Risk Management
- Manage Tableau reporting of Finance Minimum standards.
- Project related responsibilities
- Commercial Finance
- Engage with local and regional finance teams to collate best practices in relation to Days Sales Outstanding (DSO).
- Lead forums and networks to share best practices on client contracting and DSO.
- New Office Set-Up
- Support the process in vetting business case and work with Global Functions to ensure key questions are addressed.
- Assist sponsoring BCG system with set-up activities as required.
- Retro and planning FinEx quarterly sessions
- In preparation for these sessions, connects with the wider FinEx team to understand requirements and capacity to contribute towards other FinEx led initiatives; past and future
- Ad-hoc topics
- Organize and lead initiatives, focusing on both change management and implementation (where appropriate).
- Define, manage, and control project scope, developing detailed project and resource plans, balancing dependencies, and setting predictable and realistic delivery dates.
- Commercial Finance
Source : The Boston Consulting Group