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Financial System Transition Team Lead
Grant Thornton
Washington, DC, United States
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Description
Grant Thornton is seeking a Manager to join its Financial Management service line and take an active role in engagement execution, project management and key business development activities.
Grant Thornton Public Sector helps executives and managers at all levels of government maximize their performance and efficiency in the face of ever tightening budgets and increased demand for services. We give clients creative, cost-effective solutions that enhance their acquisition, financial, human capital, information technology, data analytics, and performance management. For more information, visit grantthornton.com/publicsector.
At Grant Thornton, our professional staff applies traditional, cutting-edge approaches and methods to a variety of analyses. As part of our team, the Manager will utilize various methodologies and models to execute client projects.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
• Lead the financial management transition effort including overseeing the execution of a gap analysis between the current financial management system and the target Federal Shared Service Provider (FSSP) and provide business process recommendations.
• Conduct stakeholder analyses, change impact assessment, and develop financial management plan to ensure that all impacted organizations are aware of the transition, trained on how to conduct business in the new system, and fully productive.
• Assist with the migration of two years of data from the agency's legacy system to the target FSSP.
• Implement required changes to interface budget formulation activities to budget formulation model in the target FSSP.
• Migrate portions of a legacy inventory management system to the target FSSP.
• Support validation of financial outputs such as open balances and ensure proper migration into target FSSP.
• Prepare briefings, talking points and key messages.
• Perform engagement management responsibilities, including performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality review and client management.
• Meet or exceed sales targets for new and follow-on work.
• Manage business development activities, such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership materials.
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization).
• Act as performance manager (coach) for up to four coachees outside of engagement responsibilities.
• Interview campus and/or experienced candidates.
Qualifications
• Certification in one or more financial management modality is highly desired.
• Minimum of 5 in financial systems migrations.
• Minimum of 3 years experience leading financial systems transitions projects.
• Ability to work with senior leadership.
• Able to be highly productive and self-driven in fast-paced and dynamic environments.
• Team player, who is flexible and responsive to emerging client needs.
• Minimum of 8 years of financial management/ financial systems transition experience.
• Expertise in financial systems transitions including but not limited to: systems assessment, data validation, data migration, stakeholder management, leadership and management support.
• Experience with system implementations.
• Excellent core consulting skills in interviewing, writing and communicating orally.
• Ability to interact with client personnel at employee, management and leadership levels.
• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited college or university in a related field.
• Ability to obtain and maintain certain job-related certifications if no job-related advanced degrees.
• U.S. citizenship may be required. Ability to work in the United States indefinitely required.
• Travel may be required.
• Coach and mentor junior staff members.
• Ability to work overtime required on occasion.
• Ability to sit in an office environment for long periods of time.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Ability to communicate clearly in writing and verbally.
• Ability to obtain and maintain firm independence and abide by firm ethics requirements.
• Meet or exceed continuing professional education (CPE) requirements.
Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations. Grant Thornton’s Public Sector, based in Alexandria, VA, is a global management consulting business with the mission of providing responsive and innovative financial, performance management and systems solutions to governments and international organizations. Visit Grant Thornton’s Public Sector at www.grantthornton.com/publicsector.
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