Senior Consultant (f/m/d) Finance & Accounting Advisory
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Description
You support managerial employees in advising clients on complex accounting and financial reporting matters, taking ownership of your workstreams. Your work includes:
- Perform technical accounting research and apply new and amended accounting standards and translate the impact into practical implementation steps for clients.
- Build and document supporting calculations with clear, auditable workpapers (e.g. for GAAP conversions).
- Prepare financial statements, disclosures, and client deliverables, taking responsibility for their quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
- Assist clients through the period-end close - reconciliations, consolidation entries, and quality review of reporting packages.
- Contribute to finance optimization engagements across the full project lifecycle: process (re)design, AI Readiness assessments, implementation of automation tools, and delivery of our AI-driven managed services.
- Own defined workstreams day to day - planning your work, meeting deadlines, and keeping your engagement leader informed of progress and issues.
- Build trusted working relationships with client finance teams and develop your commercial awareness.
- Contribute to internal knowledge-sharing - templates, technical updates, and training materials.
- Coach and review the work of consultants through technical review, knowledge-sharing, and feedback.
- An academic background in accounting, finance, or economics, ideally paired with (or working toward) a qualified accountant credential (CPA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
- Three to five years in a Big 4 or comparable advisory or audit environment, or in a technical accounting or financial reporting role in industry.
- Solid, applied knowledge of IFRS and/or US GAAP (SCO and/or Swiss GAAP FER a plus), with the motivation to deepen your technical expertise.
- Fluent German and English.
- Confidence in working with modern finance technology and digital tools in advisory delivery.
- The interpersonal skill to build trusted relationships with clients, finance teams, and external auditors.
- Drive, determination, and quick comprehension, with the ability to manage several workstreams and deliver quality under tight timelines.
- Curiosity, a collaborative instinct, and the ambition to thrive somewhere entrepreneurial and growing fast.
- Interest in continuous professional development in accounting and/or corporate finance.
- Above-average compensation
- Pillar 2 occupational pension plan with increased savings rates
- 25 vacation days
- Flexible working
- Reka-Lunch meal card
- SBB half-fare travelcard
- Mobile phone with a fully covered European carrier plan
- Internal coaching program
- Company events (office outings | quarterly events)
By submitting your application, you are providing personal data to CFGI Germany GmbH, Theodor-Heuss-Straße 10, 70174 Stuttgart ("CFGI"). This is necessary in order for your application to be considered. CFGI processes the data you provide for the purpose of further reviewing your application.
Please note that CFGI is part of the globally operating CFGI Group, which includes, in particular, companies in the United States (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK). The position advertised here involves an international scope of work and integration into international teams. This may require involving colleagues based outside the European Union already at the application stage. Your application documents will be made available electronically to colleagues with whom you will later work (in the USA and/or UK). CFGI always ensures an appropriate level of data protection in doing so.
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