Strategy& Value Creation - Working Capital - Senior Associate

Overview

Support deal strategy work focused on working capital analysis, value creation opportunities, and transaction support for clients across the deal lifecycle within the Deals practice.

What you'll do

• Assess a company's working capital performance leveraging its balance sheet and P&L to calculate working capital KPIs.
• Benchmark a company against competitors using public and proprietary information, and draw conclusions on its relative performance.
• Conduct analytics on transactional data such as customer and supplier invoices, POs and sales orders, goods receipts and issues, material movement data and working capital financing to identify root cause drivers of working capital using analytical tools.
• Understand key business processes and facilitate sessions with clients on processes driving working capital, such as setting contractual terms, collections, procurement, purchasing and supply chain, to identify opportunities.
• Perform financial analysis of opportunities for working capital reduction, within the context of the business's commercial requirements.
• Conduct assessment of operational and management teams, identifying skill gaps and training needs.
• Manage the end-to-end delivery of project work packages, delivering time-critical services to satisfy client deadlines.
• Identify and assess risks which could affect project delivery, proactively highlighting them to key stakeholders.
• Be responsible for internal initiatives of the Business Unit and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, including upskilling other team members.

What you'll need

• 4 years of previous experience in Supply Chain, Credit Management/Receivables and Procurement roles, or Working Capital consulting experience in the UK or continental Europe.
• Experience in engagements to improve supply chain management, procurement, buying, collections management, inventory reduction or general working capital optimisation.
• Good end-to-end understanding of flows of goods and services, information and money, and how different functions cooperate internally and externally.
• Sound financial analysis skills (collecting, manipulating and analysing financial and non-financial data), including strong use of Microsoft Excel.
• Strong commercial awareness and business analysis skills.
• A solid understanding of operational business drivers and critical thinking to enable the "So what" analysis.
• A solid understanding of the components of working capital and influencing levers.
• Report writing skills, including use of Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Strong interpersonal, presentation and excellent communication skills (oral and written to a high business English standard).
• Strong project management, organisational and project delivery skills.
• Demonstrated experience utilising analytics and visualisation tools including but not limited to Alteryx, Tableau and Power BI.
• Ability to multi-task and communicate effectively across teams in a high-performance culture.
• Ability to work effectively in a globally dispersed team environment.

Nice to have

• Certifications in analytics tools would be preferable, e.g. Alteryx Core and Alteryx Advanced.
• Working knowledge and understanding of current AI technology tools.

Details

• Location: Kolkata (AC) - Bangalore Quay - Bagmane Tech Park (KSDC).
• Travel requirements: not specified.