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OneStream Lead Consultant

Baker Tilly · IL · Remote available · $85,910–$162,890 a year · Full time

Posted Sep 1, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Walk me through a OneStream implementation you led. What was your role?

What they are checking: Real lead-level experience, not just participation on a OneStream project.

How do you lead a team of consultants with different skill levels?

What they are checking: Leadership and delegation skills expected of a lead consultant.

Tell me about a time you had to explain a technical issue to a CFO.

What they are checking: Whether they can explain a technical problem in business terms a CFO can use to make a decision.

What would you do

The client's go-live date is at risk because data integration is behind. What do you do?

What they are checking: Project leadership and clear communication about trade-offs and options.

A finance leader wants a feature that will add weeks to the project. How do you respond?

What they are checking: Scope management and client advising without simply saying yes or no.

How do you train client users so they can own the system after you leave?

What they are checking: Focus on lasting client success rather than dependence on the consultants.

About the work

How do you design a consolidation model in OneStream for a company with multiple currencies and entities?

What they are checking: Technical depth in consolidation, currency translation and intercompany eliminations.

What's your approach to gathering requirements from a finance team that's moving off spreadsheets?

What they are checking: Whether they can uncover the real process and avoid rebuilding bad habits in a new system.

How have you used business rules in OneStream, and when do you avoid custom code?

What they are checking: Judgment about maintainability, since heavy customization creates long-term costs for clients.

How do you test a OneStream build before go-live?

What they are checking: Whether they plan parallel runs and reconciliations that prove results are correct.

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The full job description

As published by Baker Tilly.

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. Please discuss the work location status with your Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional to understand the requirements for an opportunity you are exploring. Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law. Any unsolicited resumes submitted through our website or to Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, employee e-mail accounts are considered property of Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorized recruitment agency ("search firm") for Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by Baker Tilly's Talent Attraction team, to submit candidates for review via our applicant tracking system. Job Description: We are currently searching for an experienced performance management consultant to join our growing Baker Tilly Digital practice. As a part of Baker Tilly, you will find that our global brand and entrepreneurial environment will give you the support you need to apply your industry and technical experience to build your career across a wide range of services to meet our clients’ important needs. You will contribute to some of the most important activities in our firm which include operating and growing the business, serving the client, developing the best people, and shaping our culture. Baker Tilly is a Global Systems Integrator (GSI) partner with OneStream. As a member of our team, you will help lead the firm’s efforts in expanding our commercial market presence and provide functional and technical consulting offerings to leading companies and organizations throughout the region and across the country. In this role, you will deliver consulting services involving Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Consolidation, and Business Intelligence solutions to Baker Tilly clients. The position will require everything from business requirements and solution design to technical development. Baker Tilly works with some of the leading organizations of the world to implement successful budgeting and forecasting solutions. During your tenure with Baker Tilly, you will gain deep experience in the business process, industry, and technical aspects of these solutions. It’s an exciting time to join Baker Tilly! Responsibilities: • Utilize application expertise, business knowledge, and technical skills to successfully support design, build, test, and deploy corporate/enterprise performance management (CPM/EPM) solutions to Baker Tilly clients. • Support client workshops to gather requirements and build client design documentation for OneStream applications and solutions. Assist in the design of a comprehensive infrastructure framework within the OneStream financial application for clients based on requirements documentation. • Engage in OneStream solution quality and testing, including unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing. • Build, test & deploy reports, cube views, dashboards, templates and forms to meet client requirements. • Work with our clients to develop a roadmap that encompasses an overall solution vision and effectively communicate initiatives across the entire project team. • Identify new areas within the client’s business and forecasting processes where planning software can be better utilized to drive business results and increase the accuracy and efficiency of their budgets and forecasts. Successful candidates will have: • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a closely related field. • Minimum of three (3) years of experience in FP&A or FP&A consulting, including advising commercial companies and senior leadership. • Experience implementing OneStream for financial planning or close & consolidation software. • Previous experience working with external clients, including solution development and implementation using a leading ERP or EPM/CPM solution is a plus. • OneStream Certified Associate preferred. • Strong understanding of .NET and SQL development preferred. • Ability to lead and mentor others, provide exceptional client service, demonstrate commitment to continuous learning, display appropriate ethical knowledge and commitment, and exhibit a sense of urgency and commitment to quality and the timely completion of projects. • Demonstrated leadership, analytical, organizational, interpersonal, project management, and communication skills. The compensation range for this role is $85,910 to $162,890. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location. #LI-Remote

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