Expert Consultant, CFO Excellence

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About the role

BCG is looking for an Expert Consultant to join our CFO Excellence team. Our CFOx team partners with CFOs to tackle their most pressing challenges—reimagining finance operating models for peak efficiency, unlocking the power of advanced analytics and AI, and driving transformative value across the organization. With unmatched experience across industries, our team helps finance leaders modernize systems, enhance transparency, and position their finance functions as catalysts for strategic success. Join us to shape the future of finance and make a lasting impact.

As an Expert Consultant, you will be integrated into a BCG team to leverage your deep expertise on projects that reshape finance functions. You will be given end-to-end responsibility for a workstream within a BCG project. You will work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for your recommendations, while also collaborating with colleagues on complex client issues. You will provide deep expertise and insight to clients and help build your expertise area within BCG. A majority of your time will be focused on supporting and executing case work.

The Expert Consulting Track (ECT) is vital to BCG’s ability to successfully meet our clients’ demand for deep expertise and advanced technical capabilities. Experts deliver next-level impact for BCG's most complex and cutting-edge client challenges. Experts focus on developing BCG's thought leadership, commercial capabilities, and intellectual property assets; and their work is essential to our delivery model. Working alongside our traditional and specialty consultants to bring the ‘best of BCG’ to our clients, Experts come from diverse backgrounds, with expertise often gained outside of BCG in industry, academia, or specialized consulting. Consulting work is varied and rigorous, much of it performed at our client sites. Projects can vary in length, size, and location, depending on the client’s challenge. Because our clients operate all over the world, you may travel internationally.

Responsibilities

• Leverage deep finance expertise on projects that reshape finance functions.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for a workstream within a BCG project.
• Work closely with clients to understand their issues, create strategies for change, and win buy-in for recommendations.
• Collaborate with colleagues on complex client issues.
• Provide deep expertise and insight to clients and help build your expertise area within BCG.
• Support and execute case work, focusing on finance transformation programs including operating model redesign, process re-engineering, technology enablement, shared services, finance technology, budgeting, management reporting, Business Intelligence, core accounting, tax, treasury, internal audit, AI, and machine learning.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in finance across topics such as finance function effectiveness, CFO advisory, FP&A, process and policy, technology, operations, organizational structure and strategy, and/or transformation.
• Previous consulting experience is required.
• Proven experience working on finance transformation programs including: operating model redesign, process re-engineering, technology enablement, shared services, finance technology, budgeting, management reporting and Business Intelligence, core accounting, tax, treasury, internal audit, AI, and machine learning.
• Experience in finance technology stacks, process optimization, and data architecture to deliver scalable and efficient solutions.
• Strong consulting skill set with a demonstrated willingness to learn and grow.
• Entrepreneurial, driven, and proactive mindset with a strong work ethic.
• Collaborative working style with a proven ability to team effectively across BCG and with clients.
• Ability to build trust and rapport with clients by deeply understanding their business and challenges.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a related field (preferred).

Benefits

At BCG, we offer best-in-class benefits to support you personally and professionally, including:

• Zero-dollar health insurance premiums for BCG employees, spouses, and children.
• $10 (USD) copays for trips to the doctor, urgent care visits, and prescriptions for generic drugs.
• Dental coverage, including up to $5,000 (USD) in orthodontia benefits.
• Vision insurance with coverage for both glasses and contact lenses annually.
• Reimbursement for gym memberships and other fitness activities.
• Fully vested retirement contributions made annually, whether you contribute or not.
• Generous paid time off including vacation, holidays, and annual office closure between Christmas and New Year’s.
• Paid Parental Leave and other family benefits such as elective egg freezing, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement.

Pay

The base compensation for this role is $190,000 in USD. In addition to your base salary, you will also be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus and BCG's Profit Sharing and Retirement Fund (PSRF) contribution.