Director/Senior Director, Office of the CFO Finance Transformation
Posted Sep 15, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Walk me through a finance transformation you led, from the first diagnostic to the point where the new process actually ran without you.
What they are checking: Whether they have carried a redesign all the way to adoption, not just delivered a recommendations deck.
Tell me about an ERP or EPM implementation where the data was worse than anyone expected. What did you do?
What they are checking: How they handle the data problems that sink most finance system projects, and whether they reset scope honestly.
How do you get controllers and FP&A staff to adopt a new operating model when they liked the old way?
What they are checking: Whether they treat change management as real work, since finance teams quietly revert to spreadsheets without it.
Tell me about a time you coached a manager on your team who was struggling with a client.
What they are checking: Whether they develop people while delivering, which a growing consulting practice depends on.
How have you helped grow an existing client account into follow-on work without it feeling like a sales pitch?
What they are checking: Whether they can expand work by solving the next real problem, which senior consulting roles are measured on.
What would you do
At the Director level you own engagement economics. How do you keep a fixed-fee transformation project profitable when the client keeps adding asks?
What they are checking: Whether they can manage scope and margin while keeping the client relationship intact.
A private equity sponsor wants the portfolio company's finance function ready for an exit in eighteen months. What do you prioritize?
What they are checking: Whether they understand what buyers scrutinize, like reporting quality, controls, KPIs and a credible forecast.
Your team's new data model shows the client's reported margins by product line are off. The CFO has already shared those numbers with the board. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they deliver bad news early and carefully while protecting the client's credibility and their own.
About the work
A CFO tells you the close takes twelve days and wants it at five. Where do you start looking?
What they are checking: Whether they know the usual bottlenecks in a close, like reconciliations, manual journals and late inputs from outside finance.
How do you decide whether a client's finance problem is a process issue, a systems issue, or an operating model issue?
What they are checking: Whether they diagnose root cause before reaching for software, which is the most common and costly mistake in transformation work.
Where have you seen automation in finance pay off, and where have you seen it disappoint?
What they are checking: Whether they have realistic judgment about RPA, AI and workflow tools instead of repeating vendor promises.
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