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The Director leads finance transformation projects, develops business, manages client relationships, and oversees engagement teams. Key responsibilities include generating business, resolving client issues, and providing insightful recommendations and implementation support.
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THE HACKETT GROUP - STRATEGY & BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) is an intellectual property-based strategic consultancy and leading enterprise benchmarking firm to global companies, offering digital transformation including implementation of leading enterprise cloud applications, workflow automation and analytics that enable digital world class performance.

Hackett’s Strategy & Business Transformation (S&BT) practice specializes in helping clients to improve the performance of their operations to enable growth and effectiveness and achieve meaningful cost efficiencies.  As part of Business Transformation, Hackett professionals provide dedicated expertise in business strategy, operations, finance and shared services, human capital management, strategic sourcing, procurement and information technology.  Our approach provides full lifecycle service from strategy definition through design and implementation and, finally, continuous improvement.  All of Hackett’s programs have digital solutions embedded to accelerate and fuse our clients' business and technology transformations.

Please visit our website at www.thehackettgroup.com to find out more about our firm.

DIRECTOR – FINANCE TRANSFORMATION
Hackett’s Finance Transformation Practice is the strategic advisor to the CFO.  We work with the CFO and their teams to address the business challenges and disruptions they face by pairing our unparalleled intellectual property and experience to deliver the needed outcomes for their organizations.  On topics as diverse as Finance Strategy, Digital Disruption, Modern Finance Architecture, Financial Planning & Analysis, Global Business Service, Outsourcing, and Working Capital - we partner with our clients for success across the entire journey.
Directors are primarily responsible for overseeing projects and developing business. They apply well-honed consulting, project management and functional skills in the management of major projects. Further, Directors are involved in business development such as project diagnostics, proposal development and sales calls.  Director's responsibilities include:

•    Generating business
•    Managing multiple engagement teams
•    Identifying and resolving issues critical to the clients' strategic and operational success
•    Providing technical/functional content
•    Presenting conclusions and recommendations to senior client management
•    Providing solution implementation assistance as required
•    Developing leading industry insight to present to clients
•    Managing client relationships
•    Leading, coaching, developing and supervising the efforts of junior staff
•    Active involvement in the development of The Hackett Group's functional/industry practices
•    Active involvement in Firm building activities including recruiting, training, performance management, etc.
Directors  will typically have:
•    10+ years of related consulting or industry experience showing progression/promotion
•    Outstanding analytical capability
•    Solid understanding of Finance processes within targeted industries
•    Proficient with Financial applications, information flows and how to apply that knowledge to overall process and organizational assessments
•    The ability to effectively generate new business
•    Outstanding client relationship skills
•    Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
•    Exceptional project leadership abilities
In addition to the qualifications listed above, the firm places high emphasis on relevant personal qualities: entrepreneurial, creative, imaginative, resourceful, independent, motivated, professional and collaborative.

Applicants must be willing and able to travel to client work locations up to five days/week.

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