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Mobile, Alabama, United States
Remote only
By joining our rapidly growing Business Transformation practice you will serve as a trusted partner to our clients. As a Manager at CrossCountry Consulting, you’ll bring your first-hand experience, unique perspectives, and functional knowledge to deliver tailored integrated solutions that help our clients solve today's challenges and set the foundation for future success. You will be responsible for a mix of client delivery, leading teams and developing junior team members, while assisting helping CFOs rebuild how planning, forecasting, close, and consolidation actually work and then activate that design through the platforms that run it.
We do both the strategy and the execution: operating model design, process reinvention, platform selection, implementation enablement, and hands-on FP&A support when clients need it most.
Advisory & Operating Model Design
Lead the design and activation of FP&A and close & consolidation operating models, organizational structure, roles and RACI, service delivery model, close and planning calendars, governance forums, and performance metrics that prove the model is working
Own end-to-end process design and implementation for complex organizations across budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, management reporting, financial close, consolidation, intercompany, and statutory-to-management reporting
Lead client workshops grounded in diagnostic assessments to align stakeholders, facilitate current- and future-state design, and build consensus around transformation decisions across people, process, data, and technology. Develop strategic blueprints, target operating models, and multi-year transformation roadmaps that sequence near-term wins against structural and strategic changes
Provide strategic FP&A surge and interim support when needed, using hands-on exposure to identify process, operating model, and performance improvement opportunities and translate observations into actionable recommendations.
Model and optimize existing processes: cycle time reduction, handoff elimination, control simplification, and automation of manual effort
EPM Technology Enablement
Guide EPM platform evaluation and selection: requirements definition, RFP design, vendor demo scenario development, scoring frameworks, and fit/total-cost recommendations
Lead implementation enablement across the full delivery lifecycle: program and project management, functional requirements and design, dimensionality and data model input, test strategy and execution (SIT/UAT), data conversion, and reconciliation of converted balances back to source
Own change management and adoption, stakeholder analysis, communications, training, hypercare, and the behavioral shift that determines whether a platform actually gets used
Partner with data and analytics teams on source-system integration, master data, and downstream reporting so the EPM layer connects to the broader finance data ecosystem
Bring a credible point of view on where AI and automation genuinely improve forecasting, variance analysis, and close
Represent the firm at industry conferences and within the EPM alliance and partner ecosystem
Collaborate across CrossCountry Consulting solution areas (Technical Accounting, Transactions, Private Equity, Data Transformation & Analytics, AI Strategy) to bring the full firm to the client
Contributing to recruiting, proposal writing, and firm-wide AI innovation initiatives.
5+ years of progressive experience across FP&A, financial close and consolidation, finance transformation, or EPM advisory, including 5+ years in a client-serving consulting environment
Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end FP&A and/or close and consolidation transformations at complex organizations (multi-entity, multi-currency, multi-ERP, PE-backed, or SEC-registrant reporting environments)
Hands-on experience across the EPM lifecycle with at least one leading platform, OneStream strongly preferred; Anaplan, Planful, Oracle EPM/Hyperion/FCCS, Workday Adaptive, Pigment, or Cube also relevant
Strong functional command of the FP&A stack: driver-based planning, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, scenario and sensitivity modeling, profitability and cost allocation, management reporting, and KPI design
Working knowledge of consolidation mechanics, intercompany eliminations, legal entity and ownership structures, currency translation and CTA, top-side adjustments, and GAAP/non-GAAP bridges
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline
Experience in professional services (public accounting, advisory firm, or management consulting firm) strongly preferred
Experience facilitating Kaizen, Human-Centered Design, or other structured workshops preferred
CPA, CFA, AFP Certified Corporate FP&A Professional, OneStream certifications, PMP, or Prosci/change management certification preferred
Prior in-house FP&A or controllership experience alongside consulting a plus
Familiarity with ERP ecosystems (NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics) and analytics tooling (Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) a plus
Exposure to PE-backed portfolio companies, carve-outs, IPO readiness, or post-merger integration a plus
MBA or master's degree a plus
Willingness to travel up to 45% based on client needs
