Senior Consultant, ERP & Finance Transformation
West Monroe · Chicago, United States · 25d ago
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West Monroe is seeking a Senior Consultant to join our CFO Advisory team within our Operations Excellence practice. This role will help clients modernize their finance organizations and ERP environments, bridging finance processes, technology, and program execution. The ideal candidate brings functional experience working on ERP implementations and is ready to take broader ownership of transformation initiatives. You will work alongside finance, accounting, business, and technology teams to translate business needs into action and drive complex ERP programs forward.
What you’ll do
- Manage ERP transformation workstreams and deliverables, coordinating activities across client finance, accounting, business, technology, and development teams.
- Support finance and ERP transformation initiatives including application strategy, implementation planning, process design, program management, testing, training, cutover, and post-launch stabilization.
- Lead or coordinate finance and accounting cutover activities, helping teams prepare for the transition from legacy processes and systems to new ERP environments.
- Plan and execute testing activities, facilitate issue triage, and partner with functional and technical teams to drive issues through resolution.
- Translate finance and accounting requirements into clear business and system needs while helping stakeholders understand downstream process and technology impacts.
- Develop project plans, track dependencies and risks, facilitate working sessions, and communicate progress and decisions to client and West Monroe stakeholders.
- Ensure high-quality deliverables through structured problem solving, attention to detail, and quality assurance of team outputs.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations for clients, exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
- Apply AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, automation tools, data models) to enhance insights, improve delivery efficiency, and elevate the quality of client outcomes.
- Contribute ERP and finance transformation experience to proposals, client discussions, methodologies, tools, and reusable project assets.
- Coach junior team members and share ERP, finance transformation, and program delivery knowledge across project teams.
What you’ll bring
- 3+ years of consulting, ERP implementation, finance transformation, or related experience.
- Functional experience supporting ERP implementations, with direct involvement in finance or accounting processes throughout the implementation lifecycle strongly preferred. Candidates with ERP program or PMO experience and strong functional ERP knowledge will also be considered.
- Experience managing ERP workstreams, project activities, or cross-functional teams through key phases of an implementation.
- Practical understanding of accounting fundamentals and ERP-enabled finance processes, including areas such as record-to-report, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, general ledger, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.
- Experience with implementation activities such as requirements gathering, process design, fit-gap analysis, testing, training, cutover, issue management, or post-launch stabilization.
- Ability to work across finance, business, and technical stakeholders and translate between functional requirements and technology teams.
- Strong project management, problem-solving, communication, and client-facing skills.
- Experience with major ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or other enterprise or custom ERP environments is valuable; expertise in a specific platform is not required.
- Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
- Ability to travel 25 to 50%.
- A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
- Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role is listed below. Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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