Principal - Manufacturing Finance & Backoffice

About the role

The role involves leading and managing delivery of consulting engagements, contributing to the firm's development, and guiding and mentoring teams. It also includes advising clients on strategy and detailed use cases, leading and managing teams, and advising clients on chart of accounts, ledgers, legal entities, business units, costing, subledger-to-general-ledger integration, master data, and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage delivery of consulting engagements, being responsible for quality, budget and staffing, working closely with senior client managers.
• Contribute to the firm’s development by guiding and mentoring teams and sharing knowledge.
• Lead and manage a team of consultants to develop concise and practical strategies, roadmap and/or re-engineering program recommendations with a clear implementation path.
• Advises clients on strategy and detailed use cases by leveraging insights from industry best practices.
• Direct teams of global consulting, IT professionals & subject matter experts in establishing comprehensive business and functional requirements, then translating those requirements into actionable project initiatives with associated metrics.
• Lead ERP-enabled finance transformation from process assessment and business requirements through solution design, testing, data conversion, cutover and adoption.
• Advise clients on chart of accounts, ledgers, legal entities, business units, costing, subledger-to-general-ledger integration, master data and financial reporting.
• Provide insights on new and emerging manufacturing best practices and contribute to the development of service offerings.
• Work with other practice members to support Infosys Consulting thought leadership activities and develop innovative assets, including differentiated points of view and methodologies.
• Coach and develop junior team members to deliver quality results and promote professional development.
• Develop and build relationships at senior management and CXO levels.
• Formulate and present Infosys Consulting propositions and service offerings.
• Lead small, medium sized sales pursuits and business development activities ranging from creation of client proposals to formulating commercial constructs / contracts.
• Prepare thought papers and participate in industry conferences and forums.
• Contribute to practice growth and vitality through roles such as recruitment, training and retention.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required.
• Minimum 12 years of relevant experience with at least 3-5 years of management consulting experience at a top-tier consulting firm or manufacturing company.
• 5-7 years of experience in working on one or more of the following areas – Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Technology.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, finance operations or backoffice transformation, with working knowledge of financial statements, period-end close, reconciliations, internal controls and management reporting.
• Hands-on consulting or program experience with a leading ERP platform such as Oracle Cloud ERP / Oracle E-Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA or an equivalent enterprise finance platform.
• Working knowledge of design thinking.
• Demonstrated ability in defining, mobilizing and delivering complex programs in large organizations.
• Strong background of leading teams, comprising both business and IT specialists.
• A demonstrable ability to turn business requirements into technology solutions with the commercial acumen to create supporting business cases.
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills with ability to build relationships at senior management and CXO levels.
• Ability to collaborate within the firm and leverage existing resources.
• Proven ability to deliver under tight deadlines and challenging constraints.
• Ability to work as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary.

Qualifications

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
• Good depth of knowledge in one or more manufacturing domain areas – production planning, production (continuous, discrete), supply chain, quality, sourcing.
• CPA, CMA or equivalent accounting qualification is preferred.
• Depth in one or more ERP finance areas, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Fixed Assets, Project Accounting, Cost Accounting, Tax or Consolidation.
• Experience designing global or regional shared-services / backoffice models, including governance, service levels, controls, process ownership and transition planning.
• Experience leading programs where stakeholder engagement is a key requisite to achieving successful program/project delivery.
• Proven ability to deliver under tight deadlines and challenging constraints.
• Ability to collaborate within the firm and leverage existing resources.
• Working knowledge of agile methodologies.
• Prove thought leadership, ability to conceptualize and drive new solution service offerings and take them to market.
• Willingness and ability to work as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary.

Skills

• Design thinking.
• Collaboration.
• Leadership.
• Project management.
• Client relationship management.
• Financial analysis.
• ERP systems.
• Agile methodologies.
• Thought leadership.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance.
• Long-term/Short-term Disability.
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts.
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness , Hospital Indemnity, Legal).
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level.
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off.

Pay

The total annual compensation for this role is between $154,375 to $193,125.

Schedule

The role requires practical experience in manufacturing finance and backoffice transformation, including accounting processes, shared services and ERP-enabled operating models.