Senior Finance Transformation Consultant

• Build trusted working relationships with finance and accounting subject-matter experts and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Conduct structured interviews, working sessions, and side-by-side process reviews to understand how key accounting and reporting activities are performed and why specific judgments or adjustments are made.
• Document end-to-end finance processes, including revenue accounting, journal-entry activity, close procedures, reconciliations, reporting, adjustments, control points, dependencies, and exception handling.
• Reconstruct process logic and supporting rationale where documentation is incomplete, inconsistent, or primarily dependent on institutional knowledge.
• Evaluate current practices against sound accounting, process, and control standards and develop practical recommendations to retain, formalize, simplify, automate, redesign, or discontinue activities.
• Produce durable process narratives, workflow documentation, decision logic, control documentation, and supporting reference materials that can be used by finance operations and transformation teams.
• Partner with finance, controllership, technology, and project stakeholders to ensure documented requirements and accounting logic are appropriately reflected in broader transformation, testing, reconciliation, and future-state design efforts.
• Identify and communicate process-improvement opportunities in a constructive, collaborative manner that supports stakeholder adoption and minimizes operational disruption.
• Operate with discretion, patience, and strong judgment when navigating sensitive processes, long-standing practices, and change-management considerations.

This is a hands-on transformation engagement suited for a senior finance and accounting professional with strong process orientation, sound accounting judgment, and the interpersonal presence to work effectively with experienced subject-matter experts. The consultant will translate complex and sometimes informally maintained practices into clear, auditable, and sustainable documentation that can support ongoing operations and future-state transformation efforts., * 15+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including meaningful exposure to revenue recognition, journal-entry preparation and review, reconciliations, and month-end and quarter-end close processes.

• Demonstrated finance transformation, process-improvement, and/or change-management experience, ideally involving enterprise systems change, process redesign, operating-model evolution, or knowledge-transfer initiatives.
• Strong functional accounting fluency and the ability to independently understand, evaluate, and challenge complex process flows, accounting treatments, and journal-entry rationale.
• Executive presence and consulting maturity, with the ability to operate as a credible peer and thought partner to experienced finance professionals.
• Exceptional emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills, including a demonstrated ability to build trust, navigate resistance, and challenge established practices respectfully.
• Excellent written documentation skills, with the ability to convert unstructured or tacit knowledge into clear, organized, auditable, and user-friendly process documentation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across finance, accounting, controllership, technology, internal controls, and transformation teams.
• Availability to work on-site multiple days per week within commuting distance of the client location., * Experience supporting complex, contract-driven, high-volume, or multi-entity revenue environments.
• Experience working across both established or highly customized finance environments and modern enterprise platforms during a phased transformation.
• Prior consulting or advisory experience involving finance transformation, process documentation, knowledge capture, internal controls, or systems implementation.
• Experience developing documentation that supports testing, reconciliation, controls, training, transition, or future-state process design.
• Broad familiarity with enterprise finance and accounting systems; deep expertise in any specific software platform is not required.

ENGAGEMENT PARAMETERS

• Engagement Type: Project-based consulting engagement
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid/on-site multiple days per week; specific client location will be shared during the interview process
• Start: Near-term availability preferred
• Reporting Relationship: Finance, controllership, and transformation leadership., * Have you traced material, labor, overhead, WIP, finished goods, and COGS through production activity by item, work order, or production order?
• Do you have SAP S/4 HANA implementation/transformation/migration experience?
• Have you led or supported a finance transformation, ERP migration, legacy system decommissioning, process documentation, or knowledge-transfer project?
• Please briefly describe your experience converting undocumented or manually owned accounting processes into clear process narratives, workflows, control points, or audit-ready documentation.
• Are you comfortable working onsite multiple days per week?
• How many years of progressive finance, accounting, controllership, transformation, or consulting experience do you have?

Pulled from the full job description 401(k) Health insurance Vision insurance Dental insurance, CFO’s Domain is a national accounting, finance, and consulting organization serving CFOs and their stakeholders. Our consultants are experienced practitioners who support clients through periods of transformation, growth, operational complexity, capacity constraint, and systems change. Consultants receive competitive compensation, access to a broad recruiting platform, and exposure to high-impact client engagements that support continued professional growth., * 401(k)

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance