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Digital Controllership Consultant

Deloitte · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
HybridMarketing$87k–$171k/yrFull-time

About the role

Help finance leaders modernize the controllership function and strengthen how finance supports the business. As a Digital Controllership Consultant in Deloitte's Finance Transformation practice, you will work with CFOs, controllers, and finance executives to address accounting, data, process, and technology challenges. You will help clients implement digital finance solutions that improve efficiency, strengthen controls, and support business performance.

Recruiting for this role ends on 09/23/2026.

Responsibilities

  • Help clients improve finance operations through process, data, and technology transformation.
  • Support client engagements focused on controllership, finance transformation, and digital finance modernization.
  • Gather requirements, map business processes, and support solution design, testing, and deployment.
  • Implement or optimize finance platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, Workiva, and BlackLine.
  • Develop accounting data models, reporting structures, and analytics to improve financial insight.
  • Contribute to proposals, practice initiatives, and day-to-day client delivery.

Skills

  • Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
  • Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
  • Ability to lead projects or workstreams
  • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Ability to provide clear guidance to others

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Actuarial Science
  • 2+ years of experience in accounting, controllership, financial planning and analysis, or cost accounting
  • 2+ years of experience with requirements gathering, business process mapping, or full life cycle implementation for enterprise resource planning systems, finance platforms, or boundary applications
  • Experience with one or more of the following: SAP, SAP Performance and Profitability Management, SAP Profitability and Cost Management, Oracle, Oracle Profitability and Cost Management, CostPerform, Workday, Workiva, BlackLine, Alteryx, Microsoft SQL Server, Tableau, or Power BI
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • 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:

  • Master's degree in Business, Information Systems, Accounting, or Finance
  • Experience supervising and executing technology life cycle activities using project management and testing methodologies
  • Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Accountant, Certified Cost Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, or Financial Risk Manager certification, or progress toward one of these credentials
  • Knowledge of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, International Financial Reporting Standards, Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations, managerial accounting, cost accounting, and profitability analysis
  • Experience with reporting tools, big data tools, machine learning tools, or data visualization tools
  • Experience leading a project workstream within Record to Report or Order to Cash

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $86,700-170,900. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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