Managing Director, Office of the CFO

Practice Overview

Ankura Office of the CFO empowers CFO success through customized solutions that enhance business performance, drive operational efficiency, convert data into insights, and position finance as a strategic partner.

Role Overview

The Managing Director will serve as a trusted partner delivering long-term value to clients including middle-market and Fortune 500 companies. The role focuses on solutions across finance functions and requires expertise in financial modeling, analysis, and consulting leadership.

Key Focus Areas

• Ankura Quality of Finance: Assess the finance organization’s vision, strategy, operating model, organization design, processes, and technology; design and implement execution plans.
• Financial Planning & Analysis: Establish business partnering through strategic long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling enabled by technology.
• Reporting: Design management reporting packages focused on key performance indicators to facilitate financial goal achievement.
• Data Analytics & Visualization: Leverage analytics and visualization tools to influence decision-making and predict business outcomes with data-driven insights.
• Balance Sheet & Cash Flow Optimization: Drive working capital improvements and transparency in cash flow reporting and forecasting.
• Operational Effectiveness & Efficiency: Optimize finance and accounting processes, operations, and service delivery while managing overall cost.
• Transaction Preparation & Execution: Support day-one readiness and execution of transactions or liquidity events and manage transition service agreements or business integrations.
• Interim Management: Provide interim or surge leadership resources and solutions to leverage human capital.
• Financial Risk Management: Address audit committee and board concerns, remediate accounting issues, manage enterprise risk profile.

Responsibilities

• Manage the OCFO client service teams in designing and implementing holistic solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Improve decision-making, enable business partnering, and drive value.
• Collaborate with clients, colleagues, other professionals, and stakeholders to achieve engagement objectives.
• Support the sale of client engagements, including scoping and pricing work.
• Develop project work plans and deliver engagements effectively.
• Manage the development and presentation of reports, analyses, presentations, and client deliverables.
• Participate in business development, marketing, recruiting, and practice development activities.
• Demonstrate professionalism, ethics, quality, and integrity at the highest level.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree required; Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of prior work experience in a financial management consulting firm.
• Expertise in financial modeling and analysis.
• Experience leading and managing teams through solution planning, design, and implementation with a focus on delivery quality.
• Strong knowledge of core finance and accounting processes.
• General knowledge of financial ERP systems, BI technologies, and other performance management tools.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Strong intellectual curiosity, problem-solving skills, and ability to synthesize complex unstructured information and develop insights.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to influence and drive change at executive levels.
• Ability to build relationships with the highest level of client organization.
• Passion, perseverance, and ability to adapt to complex, dynamic situations.
• Willingness to undertake extensive travel.
• Willingness to work long hours during the week and weekends due to client demands.
• Candidate must be able to submit verification of legal right to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Ankura is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. If a candidate has a disability that requires accommodation to access this website or assist in the application process, please email View email address on click.appcast.io or call View phone number on click.appcast.io.