Vice President – F&A Solution Lead

Job description

**Job Description: Solutioning & Deal Support** - Own the design of end-to-end F&A solutions across the full process scope. - Lead, mentor, and develop a team of solution architects and domain specialists. - Lead solution architecture for large and complex pursuits, including deal shaping, response strategy, and defense in orals. - Translate client requirements into target operating models covering process design, delivery footprint, technology, automation, pricing, and transition approach. - Build reusable assets, accelerators, and knowledge frameworks to scale the solutioning function. - Build robust business cases and value propositions, quantifying baseline, savings, ROI, and transformation benefits. - Partner with pricing and commercial teams to structure competitive, profitable, and risk-balanced deals. **F&A Domain Leadership** - Bring deep expertise across the complete F&A scope, including Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and Statutory/Regulatory reporting. - Define best-in-class process frameworks, benchmarks, and maturity models for F&A operations. - Drive digital and intelligent automation strategies (RPA, AI/ML, analytics, workflow, ERP enablement) into solution designs. **Client Engagement & Advisory** - Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders (CFO and their finance leadership team). - Lead client workshops, due diligence, and discovery to uncover pain points and shape the solution roadmap. - Present solutions and transformation narratives to C-suite audiences. **Responsibilities: Required Qualifications & Experience** - **15–18 years** of overall professional experience in Finance & Accounting, business process management, shared services, or outsourcing/consulting environments. - **10–12 years** of dedicated experience in F&A solutioning, including large and complex deal pursuits. - Demonstrated experience across the **complete scope of F&A** . - Proven track record of designing and winning multi-million-dollar F&A outsourcing/transformation deals. - Strong command of operating model design, transition methodology, pricing constructs, and commercial modeling. - Experience embedding digital levers (automation, analytics, AI/ML, ERP platforms) into solution designs. **Skills & Competencies** - Strategic and structured problem-solving with a strong commercial orientation. - Executive presence and the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders. - Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills. - Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration. - Ability to operate under pressure across concurrent pursuits and tight timelines. **Qualifications: Education** - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Business, or a related field (required). - CA / CPA / CMA / MBA (Finance) or equivalent professional qualification (strongly preferred). **Preferred (Nice to Have)** - Procurement (e.g., source-to-pay, category management, supplier management) solutioning or delivery experience is an added benefit. - Prior experience in a Big 4, global BPM/BPO, or management consulting environment. - Exposure to specific industry verticals (e.g., BFSI, Energy and Utilities, Retail, Travel Transportation and Logistics Manufacturing). - Willingness to travel for client engagements and pursuits.