Job Title:  Enabling Areas- Operate SGO- Finance & Accounting Capability Lead

Role: Operate F&A Capability Lead

Your potential, unleashed.

India’s impact on the global economy has increased at an exponential rate and Deloitte presents an opportunity to unleash and realise your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organisations shaping the future of the region, and indeed, the world beyond.

At Deloitte, your whole self to work, every day. Combine that with our drive to propel with purpose and you have the perfect playground to collaborate, innovate, grow, and make an impact that matters.

The team
 

Operate is one of our Four at the Core pillars driving forward our transformation agenda.  Operate sees us run, maintain and enhance our clients existing services on a recurring basis. Using Operate services, we transform conventional approaches for operating critical processes, infrastructure, platforms and applications. By applying the right mix of Deloitte tech, intellectual property, talent and capacity, we help organisations embed continuous advantage through new outcome-oriented solutions that deliver enhanced business value.

Deloitte has established an Operate Centre of Excellence for the Asia Pacific region. The COE aims to deliver top-tier Operate capability support, catering   to APAC and other markets across the region
 

Your work profile

You are a finance and accounting functional SME with both functional expertise and experience of finance and accounting operations.  You have a deep understanding about what a high performing finance and accounting operation looks like and what it takes to build it. You have worked with and are able to engage with senior leaders across the business.

This is a great opportunity to join a newly formed programme, leveraging Deloitte’s network and capabilities to build a world-class technology-asset enabled businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Support Sales: Work closely with Sales and Solution teams as a functional Finance and Accounting Services SME to help develop value proposition for our clients:
  • Engage with client teams to understand their current landscape, and help define the scope of potential Operate engagement, both in terms of functional scope, and the associated effort in terms of people;
  • Assess opportunities for deliverability and asses risk;
  • Identify potential areas where Deloitte can drive productivity and/or other value as part of the engagement;
  • Help conduct due diligence to validate proposed solution and represent the delivery organisation in client Orals and Sales Presentations.

• Support Delivery: Interim support to help with delivery of large and/or complex scope as part of Finance and Accounting Operate engagements:
  • Establish and manage Operate teams to service specific client requirements;
  • Be accountable for quality of service and client satisfaction within specific functional areas, across a whole engagement or portfolio of client engagements.
  • Setup up operational processes and controls to meet agreed service levels
  • Coach new team leads and managers with delivery management
  • Drive continuous improvement
  • Oversee targeted interventions to solve specific delivery issues.

• Develop Capability & Offering:
  • Develop assets that bring clarity of offerings and enable rapid development of proposals, standard solutions for new engagement discussions – including detailed offering scope, standard delivery structures, Service Performance Metrics and Value drivers;
  • Help develop standard suite of assets to help drive client value within your specific area of functional expertise.

Desired qualifications

• Finance and/or accounting related qualifications
• Over 10 years of experience in with finance or accounting teams (including supervisory roles), preferably as part of large scale outsourcing/BPO engagements, or within the finance function in industry. Alternatively, you have experience as a functional consultant on transformation programs that involved major technology or process transformation.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• A track record of successful leadership in complex cloud projects.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Proven ability to lead and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to travel within Asia Pacific region as may be needed.
• Flexibility and adaptability to different cultures, time zones, and work practices, adjusting communication and approach accordingly.

Location and way of working

• Base location: Bangalore/Pune
• This profile involves frequent travelling to client locations
• Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customised the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte India, we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and society, and make an impact that matters.

In addition to living our purpose, leaders across our organization must strive to be:

• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for

the success of engagement(s)

• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

How you’ll grow

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