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Senior Managing Director, CFO Advisory Services

Ankura

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Ankura Practice Overview

The Office of the CFO (OCFO) was born out of the need to support the growing challenges of the finance organization. Our focus is on owning the CFO’s inbox by delivering holistic, tailored solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness, transform data into insights, improve governance, and drive business performance.

OCFO professionals are trusted advisors who work collaboratively and with a sense of urgency to maximize value for our clients. We are experts known for providing white glove service while leading transformations in challenging situations to enable sustainable results.

Solutions include:

  • Foundational Finance – Establish a finance organization that quickly and accurately produces financial reporting

  • Transactions – Successfully execute transactions and events, including corporate or private equity carve-outs and acquisitions; minimize risk and maximize return

  • Transformation and Turnaround – Enable Finance to serve as a business partner and support better business performance

Ankura Office of the CFO Role Overview and Responsibilities

The Office of the CFO Senior Managing Director role is an executive level position that sells, leads and manages client engagement team(s) through finance-led transformations.

Primary Focus

  • Drive our heavy sales and marketing lift with corporate clients and in the Private Equity channel

  • Provide finance operations diligence capabilities in middle market PE portfolio companies

  • Proactively identify and pursue new revenue opportunities while managing existing revenue streams

  • Fully functional SMDs will be expected to deliver $2.5M-$5M within 12 months

  • Support Corporate clients with Finance Transformation program management and specific initiatives

  • Support PE and Corporate clients with accounting advisory solutions for complex SEC reporting, purchase accounting, financial restatements, material weakness remediations, IPO readiness

  • Support Corporate and Private Capital clients with M&A integration and Carve-out support solutions, including program management, Day 1 readiness, TSA management, synergy planning and capture, and financial modeling and analytics.

  • Lead / mentor / coach our OCFO practice in sales and marketing techniques to achieve greater team sales pull through

  • Create a foothold in key Corporate or PE clients of his/her own while creating accretive opportunities in new client situations

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in business development and project execution roles with a heavy emphasis on leading transformations or transactions with Corporate or PE backed portfolio companies within the middle market through Fortune 500

  • Capability to step into an Interim Finance leadership role with Corporate or private capital backed portfolio company

  • Excellent written and oral communications to drive top line growth through established referral network; ability to coordinate and deliver Ankura services to new and existing clients

  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

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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. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters, if you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, submit an online application, or participate in an interview/assessment, please email View email address on click.appcast.io or call toll-free View phone number on click.appcast.io. This email and phone number are created exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues unrelated to a disability, will not receive a response.

Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 2000 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise. Collaborative Lateral Thinking That Deliversᵀᴹ, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Valueᵀᴹ. For more information, please visit, ankura.com.

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