Infosys BPO - Consultant - Finance & Accounts

Role: Sr. Consultant (Finance and Accounts)/ Consultant (Finance and Accounts)

Band: 5A/5B

Function: Solution Design

Base location: India (Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon)

The Finance and Accounts (F&A) Practice at Infosys BPO Ltd. has requirements for the role of Sr. Consultant (F&A).

Primary areas of responsibilities :

- Conduct market analysis and provide opportunities assessment in F&A outsourcing, consulting and applications market niches

- Understand & document client/prospect requirements (objectives, challenges, deliverables etc.) through RFx documents, emails, and other collaterals/information gathered etc.

- Create structured F&A proposals/solutions independently and with innovative ideas

- Present proposals/solutions to clients/prospects/internal stakeholders in a way that articulates value delivery from Infosys clearly

- Manage internal stakeholder expectations (comprising mainly of sales, services delivery, operations, finance, CoE, F&A practice) through PDCAF (plan-do-check-act-feedback) approach

- Research and bring out best practices based frameworks, approaches

- Calculate transaction and compliance level savings based on benchmarks, heuristics and guidance from experts within the team

- Write F&A centric POVs, blogs and support other promotional channels to generate market visibility

- Support F&A discovery, due diligence (DD) and transitions

- Take up short to medium term on-site projects on consulting/billable basis as and when required (this will offshoring feasibility studies, transformation projects)

- Travel (international and domestic sectors) for average 20% - 30% of the time.

Knowledge & Skills Desired

F&A domain related:

- Finance and Accounts experience in consulting or industries (manufacturing, services, consulting etc.)

- Experience in high end F&A such as financial modeling, budgeting, performance management, improvement studies, financial risk management, would be an added advantage.

- Exposure to commercial models understanding relevant to F&A (e.g. cost break down sheets, business case analysis, TCO analysis, etc.)

- Experience on F&A platforms e.g. SAP-SRM, Oracle, etc.

Soft skills related:

- Good English Communication

- Customer Orientation

- Collaboration and Team Working

- Stakeholder management and in cross cultural context

- Relationship building

- Analytical / structured thinking

- Customer Presentation

- Problem solving, structured thinking

- Ability to work as individual contributor

- Ability to work with ambiguity

Education and professional qualifications desired :

Degree in any stream and, or MBA in Finance/Chartered Accountancy/ Cost Accountancy with minimum work experience of 8 years.