Director, Strategy & Transformation

About this role

Overview

Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.  

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Job Description:

  Baker Tilly has an incredible career opportunity for a Strategic Transformation Leader to join our growing team.    Baker Tilly’s Strategy & Transformation Practice combines deep functional, industry, and technical capabilities to help clients solve their toughest enterprise challenges. Baker Tilly is focused on the integration of advanced technologies with core business transformational services to support companies in successfully navigating the complexities of transformations.     You Will Enjoy This Role If You   • You are looking for your next challenge, crave variety where no day is the same and feel your skills and experience can be better utilized 

• You are looking to make an impact as part of a fast growing, innovative practice where your hard work and creativity can help us continue to build our brand as a firm 

• You have a passion for leading transformation, enabling an organization to meet objectives on time and on budget  

• You do your best work when you are part of a talented, down-to-earth team that thrives in collaboration and truly enjoys working together to meet client needs in a variety of industries 

• You feel valued when you are provided the resources and support to continually sharpen your skills and build your career now, for tomorrow  

What You Will Do   • Lead a team of Baker Tilly and client resources through strategy definition, future state visioning, target operating model, roadmap development and delivery of transformation projects which may include business process and/or technology implementations

• Utilize finance, accounting, industry, and operational knowledge to assist clients in transforming their organization to align with strategic goals, establish target operating models in alignment to industry standards and benchmarks. Lead the build and definition of operational metrics, roles and responsibilities and organizational structures to support. 

• Develop and standardize finance processes, manage contract financial compliance, and document policies and procedures

• Define roles and responsibilities within the organization, establish reporting structures, and ensure effective governance mechanisms

• Lead through transformative solution visioning and execution of the vision, including defining the future state organization. This encompasses designing the target operating model, aligning it with industry standards and benchmarks, and building clear roles and responsibilities, operational metrics, and organizational structures to support and enable the organization

• Evaluate the current state, identify gaps, and provide strategic recommendations to optimize and mature the client’s operating model

• Develop, manage, and measure effectiveness of project approach and plans aligned to critical phases of implementation (analyze, design, build, test, deploy) and/or long-term roadmaps which deliver transformative operating models via a series of projects 

• Elicit and define requirements using multiple methods such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, site visits, etc. 

• Ensure compliance with federal financial regulations and mitigate financial, operational, and regulatory risks 

• Manage and implement multiple projects through delegation, coordination, communication, and organization. Coordinate deployment of projects included staffing resources, deadlines, and end user expectations 

• Ensure that all projects are properly documented, which includes a business case, business requirements, and implementation plan, maintaining document requirements for project managers and business owners 

• Manage third party vendor relationships to resource specific dev

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