Finance Process Consultant - Retail and Consumer Goods Consulting

Finance Process Consultant - Retail and Consumer Goods Consulting

Remote with Travel

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies transforming clients' business operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based consultative approach helps clients envision build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S. Cognizant a member of the NASDAQ-100 is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6000 consultants worldwide Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise program and change management capabilities and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy IT Strategy & Roadmap Development Process Re-Engineering & Transformation Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and is increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we’re growing!

The Role

Our Retail and Consumer Good Practice group is looking for a Finance Process Consultant to join our journey.

We’re looking for Senior Manager who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution 2) Expertise 3) Business Development 4) Practice Development & 5) People Development. As a Senior Manager this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant’s industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g. Strategic Control Points development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague promoting team motivation partnership and ownership for projects. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above are a selfless leader and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Responsibilities

• Process Management: Solid comprehension of process management concepts BPM technology Workflow tools and preferably previous experience with Power BI/process mining/process governance tools.
• Process Documentation and Intelligence: Proven experience in creating current and future state process documentation using BPMN 2.0 and a Business Process Management (BPM) tool along with a strong understanding of Process Intelligence process mining concepts and other process analytics techniques.
• Knowledge of Tools: Experience in utilizing Business Process Management (BPM) tool such as LucidCharts IBM Blueworks Signavio ARIS etc
• Mapping current processes: Using process mapping techniques and software to document the retailer's current processes
• Analyzing processes: Providing feedback on current processes with areas of improvement rationalizing steps reducing costs
• Redesigning processes: Recommending redesigns for processes and working with the retailer to test them
• Communicating changes: Helping the retailer communicate changes to all relevant stakeholders
• Implementing and optimizing processes: Helping the retailer implement new processes and monitor and optimize them
• Providing documentation: Providing the retailer with documentation of 'As Is' and 'To Be' processes as well as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Qualifications:

• Around 10+ years of experience as a Finance Process Consultant within Retail Consumer Goods Travel and Hospitality (RCGTH) Space.
• Must have experience reviewing existing financial processes including budgeting forecasting accounts payable/receivable and financial reporting.
• Identifying inefficiencies redundancies and potential risks within the financial operations.
• Conducting data analysis to identify trends and patterns impacting financial performance
• Utilize financial measures and analysis of operational impacts to evaluate the cost and benefits of current processes and identification of potential areas for improvement
• Proven experience with process mapping and documentation with a successful track record of delivering projects.
• Excellent organizational planning and time management skills.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Undergraduate degree in related field (Computer Science Engineering) required.
• The embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Work as one Raise the bar Dare to innovate Do the right thing Own it

Location: Remote Open to travel

Work Authorization

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B L-1B L-1A etc.)

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until 12/30/2024

The annual salary for this position is between $130000 - $160000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits : Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary other compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time subject to applicable law.