Job Summary

Business Consultant – R2R / P2P

Role Summary

We are seeking a client-facing Business Consultant with strong domain experience across Record-to-Report (R2R) and Procure-to-Pay (P2P). The consultant will lead process discovery engagements, translate business needs into practical solution requirements, and help clients simplify, standardize, and transform finance operations. The ideal candidate combines deep functional knowledge, structured consulting skills, stakeholder management, and experience in BPO transitions or process transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead client workshops, interviews, and process discovery sessions across the R2R and P2P value chains.
• Document current-state processes, pain points, controls, handoffs, service levels, systems, data flows, and stakeholder roles.
• Design future-state processes that improve financial control, compliance, cycle time, productivity, quality, and scalability.
• Translate business requirements into process designs, user stories, functional requirements, operating procedures, and implementation roadmaps.
• Facilitate alignment among Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Controllership, Treasury, Tax, IT, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Identify standardization, centralization, automation, analytics, and self-service opportunities using process and performance data.
• Support solution evaluation, business case development, effort-benefit analysis, and transformation prioritization.
• Define process controls, governance, service-level agreements, key performance indicators, and operational reporting requirements.
• Partner with delivery, technology, change management, and operations teams through design, testing, transition, stabilization, and continuous improvement.
• Prepare and present executive-ready findings, recommendations, and status updates to client leadership.
• Manage dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and actions across consulting engagements.
• Contribute reusable frameworks, templates, and best practices for finance operations transformation.

Skill Requirements

Domain Scope

• Record-to-Report: General ledger accounting, journal processing, intercompany accounting, reconciliations, fixed assets, close management, consolidation, financial reporting, and statutory support.
• Procure-to-Pay: Requisitioning, purchase orders, supplier onboarding and master data, invoice processing, matching, exception handling, payments, employee expenses, and vendor queries.
• Finance data, controls, compliance, segregation of duties, governance, and audit readiness.
• Service delivery, case management, operational reporting, and stakeholder experience.
• ERP, workflow, automation, and analytics enablement across R2R and P2P.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Business Administration, Operations, or a related discipline; a relevant professional finance qualification is advantageous.
• Relevant experience in business consulting, finance operations, shared services, or process excellence, with substantial exposure to R2R and P2P processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading client-facing discovery workshops and engaging senior stakeholders.
• Strong capability in process mapping, gap analysis, root-cause analysis, requirements elicitation, and future-state design.
• Working knowledge of finance operating models, internal controls, compliance, service delivery, and performance management.
• Ability to convert complex findings into clear recommendations, requirements, presentations, and action plans.
• Strong verbal, written, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to work across business and technology teams in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Other Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in BPO transition, finance shared-services migration, or process transformation programs.
• Exposure to global or multi-country finance operations and distributed delivery models.
• Experience with leading ERP platforms, procurement suites, workflow tools, close-management solutions, or automation technologies.
• Lean Six Sigma, business analysis, project management, change management, accounting, or procurement certification.
• Experience supporting due diligence, solutioning, transition planning, knowledge transfer, or operational stabilization.