Senior Finance Consultant

Role Description

Help grow the world’s next great businesses. Take your independent consulting practice to the next level. Meet prospects in an array of interesting enterprises and be part of their journey. It’s easy. They find you.

Cansulta is looking for experienced consultants to provide the help, advice, and guidance that businesses need to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities they face in starting and managing their operations. Our “Cansultants” are established independent consultants who fill the gap in business areas where clients don’t have in-house capacity, knowledge or expertise.

Administrative work and the pressure to sell yourself should never prevent you from helping new clients. On Cansulta, we’ll take care of marketing, contracts, billing, and more—freeing you to focus on doing what you do best: sharing your expertise and transforming businesses!

Note that WE DO NOT EMPLOY any consultants: we are an online marketplace connecting consultants with clients to collaborate, a platform for consultants to offer their products and services easily & affordably to clients, as independent contractors. It’s free to join and participate as a consultant on Cansulta. A one-time Platform Setup Fee applies at onboarding to support profile setup, and we otherwise operate on a revenue-sharing basis—so we earn only when you successfully sell your products and services.

NOW SEEKING EXPERIENCED FINANCE ADVISORS & CONSULTANTS

General Consulting Activities

• Act as a hands-on strategic advisor and business partner by analyzing current strategies and operations, helping increase productivity, offering guidance on processes, identifying risks & conflicts, and creating plans & implementing new policies and best practices.
• Lead, consult, and advise with honesty, authenticity, and integrity in addressing situations that can be challenging and interesting.
• Define, plan, create, and implement the tools and resources needed for the organization to reach its goals.
• Evaluate client needs and assist them with a successful plan.
• Offer your knowledge about the most relevant business concepts and strategies of benefit.
• Listen, understand, analyze, evaluate, advise, train, support—and execute as necessary—to help clients succeed.

Responsibilities

• Drive Impactful Outcomes: Leverage your expertise to deliver measurable improvements in client operations, driving efficiency and innovation. Success is marked by tangible improvements in client satisfaction and business performance.
• Foster Collaboration and Innovation: Engage with cross-functional teams to solve complex challenges, bringing together diverse perspectives to innovate and implement strategic solutions. Your ability to navigate and unite various stakeholders is key to collective success.
• Utilize Forward-Looking Tools, Approaches, Methodologies: Stay at the forefront of industry trends by employing the latest relevant strategies, tools and methodologies for the industry and domain. Your commitment to continuous learning will help us maintain a competitive edge.

Potential Finance-Related Consulting Activities

• Demonstrate commercial awareness and delve deep into the operation mechanisms of projects and businesses to identify strategic solutions and opportunities.
• Leverage advanced knowledge of financial functions, operating models, and best practices to form innovative ways to enhance client’s financial operations.
• Monitor financial operations to remain compliant with laws and regulations.
• Devise and recommend best financial practices and articulate them clearly.
• Provide guidance on efficient operations, identify financial system issues and help fix them.
• Source and evaluate different funding strategies, such as loans and investment capital to facilitate the client’s expansion and growth plans.
• Predict market trends, evaluate risks, and discover the factors to assist clients in decision-making.

Qualifications

• Strong business acumen and subject matter expertise backed by proven experience.
• Capacity to see the big picture as well as detail oriented: strategic and practical value.
• Able to understand, interpret and critically analyze a client’s needs.
• Able to create effective working relationships and build rapport at all levels (internal and external).
• Provide value, adaptability and reliability to build client rapport and trust.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) including empathy and listening skills.
• Demonstrate honesty, ethics, integrity, and confidentiality at all times.
• Knowledgeable about evolving best practices and industry trends.

Requirements

• Education & Credentials: Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related field. CPA, CMA, CFA preferred.
• Experience: Significant experience as a Finance leader with broad scope as a CFO, VP or Director of Finance, or specific expertise in any Finance area, such as accounting, tax, planning & budgeting, operations, budgeting, financing & investment, working capital, risk, treasury, or compliance.
• Proven Expertise: Bring a rich background of consulting experience, with a preference for those who have led projects that resulted in significant client benefit and advancements. Your portfolio should include a range of clients & projects that demonstrate your ability to tackle complex problems, add demonstrable value, and drive forward-looking solutions.
• Exceptional Soft Skills: Demonstrate outstanding communication, leadership, and problem-solving abilities. Excellent verbal and written English communication skills. Able to empathize with clients and work collaboratively. Able to host & lead client meetings with ease, professionalism, and effectiveness. Able to multitask, organize and prioritize. Self-directed, self-motivated, and self-managing. Your capacity to adapt to changing client needs and navigate diverse teams is critical.
• Technical Proficiency and Innovation: Profound interest in providing creative and technical solutions, and problem-solving. Strong knowledge of financial principles, practices, and regulations. Tech-savvy with a strong command of relevant technologies and software, with an openness to adopting new tools that enhance your practices. Familiar with GSuite (Gmail, GDrive, GDocs, GSheets, GSlides) and Microsoft/O365 Suite.

Benefits

• It’s FREE to become a Cansultant and join our growing online Community.
• Fully remote/work from anywhere.
• Flexible schedule: you set your availability for meetings and consultations, and decide when you complete work to meet agreed deadlines.
• Set your own fees for your Products and Services.
• No need to “sell yourself”! We handle all the marketing and sales.
• Your virtual office: your own private and secure meeting room.
• Streamlined admin: we handle paperwork, invoicing, and payment.
• Opportunity to make a huge impact on small & mid-sized businesses across the world.